Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. Holly recognized some “heros&# in the community who have done that. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Donate Tweets and Facebook posts to NTEN and use it to fund local 501 C-3 Clubs and local gatherings around the country. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. We have the wrong mental model for change.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. It's the new shiny.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. It's the new shiny. 11NTCSocialCRM).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering. It’s my modeling. Let’s think outside the box. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. How will funds raised be used? But let that sink in. You never beg.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So the first thing that I want to know, this is a chat question, Steven, you can tell me how people respond, what are your biggest funding needs now versus pre-COVID?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s how my brain works. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right? And I would say there’s no like one-size-fits-all model for the number of people. And so really, our focus was on the annual fund. But basically, we talked about why we have the annual fund, why we support the annual fund.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

I would spend my days daydreaming of everything my organization could do if only I could get the funding to do it, but I was spending 10 to 15 hours a day scattered. But they’re emailing donors for listening tours, and they’re doing funding searches based on warm leads. I was really miserable and I felt really alone.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

I would spend my days daydreaming of everything my organization could do if only I could get the funding to do it, but I was spending 10 to 15 hours a day scattered. But they’re emailing donors for listening tours, and they’re doing funding searches based on warm leads. This has nothing to do with restricted or unrestricted funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The contemporary organization is the wrong model for civil society, the corporate structure in particular is dysfunctional, and human beings fit more naturally and are more empowered in communities, movements, and networks. But I think there are probably other models worth pursuing. This stifles both innovation and movement building.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. I’m really not sure.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Now, I have a whole nother talk I can give you on the nonprofit business model, but let me just tell you, nonprofits as businesses are more complex than for-profits. If we try and experiment, and it doesn’t work, then we’re not going to get funding, or our donors won’t like us anymore, and they’ll go away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Pick the Right Model. There are four categories of crowdsourcing -- each of which suggest a particular goal. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. is a great example.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The chief operating officer in the ’50s developed this model that is true for all of us, and it’s called the J Curve. You have to model being a coach, and you’re going to wait so you can see over time, eventually, you start to see some tangible benefits. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

The funding and validity that a major foundation can provide. I asked how their new Exploring Engagement Fund (of which my museum was an early grant recipient) was going. Who exactly is the market for this new approach to arts funding? Actively recruit new grantees who may now be eligible or appropriate for funding.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The plan is to build 11,000 “Solara 60″ model drones that are capable of providing satellite Internet to places on earth without Internet connectivity starting with Africa. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. TechCrunch.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So imagine that you could expect a piece of your annual funding pie as bequest expectancies or as income from endowment. It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. Which, you can see, is 9.6% of all giving. It’s just there every year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” But the real words to describe how the organization thinks about data, “It made us better at learning and growing.”. It is ongoing.”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. In the very, very beginning, Matt and I had this idea like, "How neat would it be if we had individual, real people on our web site with their needs, and the amount of funding that they need?

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The logic is reasonably clear: a child's best hope is to "rewire" their damaged brain structure while s/he is young and has a high degree of neuroplasticity. and embrace innovative new learning models" (ED.gov). There are no standards for data collection and distribution on student services and performance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are two models of growth. Britt: You've used entrepreneurial models in combination with nonprofits, with Global Exchange, and now the Global Citizen Center. Some people are saying that the nonprofit model is fading out, and that we need more social entrepreneurship. How do we grow the organization?

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