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Nonprofit Fundraising: Are You Choosing the Right Grants?

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Governments — federal, state, county, and city branches can be a good source of funding. Any awards will also probably be a reimbursement (you spend the funds, then invoice the government), meaning you have to already have funds to spend. Search large, local companies — See if any large companies in your area offer a giving program.

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NetSquared Local Events: Week of June 17, 2013

Tech Soup

We are deep into June already, but NetSquared Local isn’t taking a vacation! NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Event Reports.

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Electronic Resources and Libraries Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Description : Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. And when the community changes, there’s an opportunity for the institution and the service to change or not to change. Blog post with slides and notes. Related Links : Conference website.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change.

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NCVO Ask the Expert: They asked me!

Amy Sample Ward

I’m looking forward to being a speaker this Tuesday (8 December) at the Seminar: Changing ICT – What does it mean for your organisation? I don’t consider myself to be an expert and don’t necessarily think there could be “experts&# in a field that changes every day! Change is, far too often, scary.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

Read about the winners and how they plan to change the world through apps. Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. 3D printing at your local library? Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Local connections built through engagement. Organizers in local community own the agenda. The governance issue is very interesting. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering. Rebbecca shared some lessons learned by “retro-fitting&# theory to their actual practice using this framework.

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