ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Five interdependent recommendations will move the sector towards this type of partnership: Reframe performance measurement as an ongoing process of learning, instead of a process of accounting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process. Then create an advisory group to steer the process.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

While challenges exist for everybody, these challenges assume more serious proportions for people who have low incomes. WORTH Trust uses a two-pronged model that addresses challenges faced by people with different abilities at various levels. Getting enough work in the initial days was a challenge.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space. How did these groups come together?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

From the get-go, through each step of the admission process, I witnessed myself growing. I saw myself rising to each new challenge. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

If your true goal is inspire people to learn, then you need to incorporate techniques so people can process the information every ten minutes. They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired. Begin Connections.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What are the benefits and challenges of using low-code platforms? Low-code is a practice, a platform, or a user experience that relies on a graphical user interface that automates aspects of the development process, eliminating dependencies on traditional computer programming approaches.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. These two lessons are probably true of any major institutional change process (swapping the word "participation" with the focus of the change). Critical friends can make you smile.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. They're walking away with skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. How to Save the World with Firefox Extensions!

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Before we dive into the process, think about the defining traits of your organization: What terms (Values) define what your organization is and how you work? The creation processes. Identify stakeholders and invite representatives to the creation process. leadership, collaboration, empowerment). What do they know?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. There is an application process. What are the challenges specific to having an enterprise in an inner city?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Paul Orselli made a thoughtful and challenging comment, saying: many data visualization art pieces, albeit elegant, seem to be inherently "push" technologies. Too often, we go for the Nymbler model, both in terms of how we deal with content and the kind of interactions we provide.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new e-book Amplify Program Impact: 7 Trailblazer Strategies for Success with Salesforce shares the challenges and solutions facing many organisations looking to deliver best-in-class programs and services and what this means from a technology perspective. Aligning Across Affiliates. Working Smarter Together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Providers have many different ways of handling that challenge. Go to preferences …&# It has been a challenge to resist uttering strings of obscenities. I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. In handmade items, you don't have that same kind of model; you don't buy and sell a bushel of embroidered skirts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It also helped students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection. Employ empowerment marketing. If you want to win this copy, leave a comment that answers any of the following: The Dragonfly Model is: Focus, Grab Attention, Take Action, and Engage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

All of those chapters from all over the world send in their donations to our headquarters, which we then process and give receipts for, and all that. It enables us as a group to make a large contribution to a grassroots organization that's doing high-impact work, and we get to have fun in the process.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The task of narrowing the 24 teams down to three winners was a challenge, but for the 21 ideas that did not win the awards, the journey is not over yet. Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation, which began with Seane talking about Off the Mat, Into the World's origins, and the Seva Challenge.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum. While the kit offers a step-by-step guide for organizing pop ups, I want to share some of the more unexpected takeaways I’ve learned through this process. What does this look like?

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