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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. We started with a survey this past winter: those results are summarized in this report. It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta. It wasn’t!

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

Funders reported they had swiftly begun distributing emergency funds, had loosened requirements imposed on grantees, and realized the need to commit to deeper change in order to support long-term sector sustainability. Organizations across the globe continue to feel negative impacts of COVID-19. News from Turkey does offer a glimmer of hope.

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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

One Dutch nonprofit leader told us that they had “Been able to move national staff upwards in the ranks and make them more responsible for positions that were previously held by international staff.”. Two years later, nonprofits report that digital fundraising, in some cases, actually led to better results. About the Authors.

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Introducing the 2013 Communities of Impact

NTEN

The first group is looking at ways to improve organization-to-organization data sharing (supporting impact measurement, real-time reporting, and more) and the second is examining internal organization measurement and reporting (supporting cross-department collaboration, program data evaluation, and so on).

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Member Round Up: A busy September with new research, a cure for website obesity, and world literacy day

NTEN

On September 8, Unesco observed its 40th International Literacy Day, from which Care2 highlights some shocking statistics on literacy around the globe and reminds us that the ability to read and write is a human right. Download the full report, Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do. Download the report.