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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Product Update: New Donation Form PayPal Integration + Customizations

CauseVox

At CauseVox, we challenge the status quo with best-in-class forms that shape the future of fundraising. Pledge Now, Pay Later (aka PNPL) is the state-of-the-art donation model that allows donors to select or enter a dollar amount and commit to completing the gift through several automatic monthly or annual installed payments.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). Consider reaching out to local universities to tap into departments, professors, and students for consulting, resources, and education. Create a written plan.

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

We all lived through the challenges of this past year together—and like it or not, there’s still more to come. But frankly, I’m not sure we really need another blog post talking about all those things right now. What’s left to be said that hasn’t already been written? Ah, technology. And mute buttons.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. While volunteer administrators talked at length about the challenges that emerged, many also discussed how the switch to remote technologies promoted access to their mission work.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With Bookshare , Benetech’s online library for people with print disabilities, our ebook-based approach to the accessibility challenge has already delivered on the promise of ending the famine of accessible books in the United States. In this sense, you could say that we are radical braille advocates. This is important here in the U.S.,

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

The Army Research Laboratory in Orlando, Florida (the Silicon Valley of simulation), is, a source tells us, leaning toward specifying xAPI (see below) as the standard for LMS-simulator communication. As with physical simulation, we expect to see challenges around integrating the AR/VR experience into your learning infrastructure.

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