ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund. Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

As birth rates decline and populations age, the effects on enrollment numbers, funding, and institutional sustainability become increasingly pronounced. Declining enrollment leads to not only decreased tuition revenue but also diminished government funding and reduced philanthropic support. Diversify your pipeline.

Education 77

Education Student Award University 77

Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. They pull in available government geological data, such as temperature and water height, so that water quality can be estimated multiple times per day. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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San Francisco Kiva Impact Learning 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . Launched in August by a local government social service agency in Canada, the AI system analyzes the personal data of participants to calculate who is likely to have nowhere to sleep for an extended period. To understand the ethical dilemmas, see these scenarios.

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Homeless Research Global System 163

Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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Demographics Build Social Green 98

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

This past Saturday at the SHINE09 unconferance , David Wilcox , Andy Gibson , Drew Mackie and I facilitated a version of what was called the Social Collaboration Game. Then, we asked that the groups pitch to the same two people for ultimate funding (&# winning&# ). Visit the SHINE socialreporter blog to read David’s post.

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Game Collaboration Social Facilitation 100

sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

Better Security for Your Fund Accounting Data You say that you’re concerned with security and that’s why you’re not in the cloud. No one—not even our largest government and financial institutions are. Their business models depend on this. Lean in and embrace this technology. Your future self will thank you.

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Tools Application Nonprofit Software 71

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Your strategy should carefully outline how your nonprofit will manage its funds. Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. This includes creating a realistic budget , allocating your resources efficiently, and ensuring financial transparency for your members.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

The events of this past year have changed giving as we know it and the role of technology has never played a more important part in helping nonprofits fund their missions. We just raised $118 million in Series D funding and, with that, we plan to overwhelmingly invest in our product and engineering teams. Q: So what’s next for Classy?

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Product Roles Companies Platform 76

NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Partner with corporate and private donor philanthropists and technology companies in order to fund and encourage NPO security projects How did the idea get started? We must find ways to collaboratively and creatively address the nonprofit information security gap as a community. Corporate philanthropists. Concerned citizens.

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Ideas NPO NTEN Government 75

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Among the most severe impediments to nonprofit sustainability are fundamental deficiencies in funding, capacity and infrastructure. Like this article? Get another!

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Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

Charity Governance reports that, "For the period from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 (fiscal year 2007), the IRS received 85,771 applications for recognition of Section 501(c)(3) status." That's a lot of nonprofits, many that are doing similar work and competing for funding from foundations and individual donors.

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Collaboration United States Award Nonprofit 40

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund. Yet, in the Nonprofit Finance Fund ’s (NFF) work with small nonprofits (most recently through our Capital and Capacity for Economic Recovery Initiative ), we’ve found that these essential organizations often struggle to match available funding sources to their actual needs, which results in a number of challenges.

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Impact Nonprofit Fund Grant 89

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Potentially anti-government, anti-bank, anti-censorship & anti-centralized authority .

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Model Wanted Behavior. Even better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

, I mentioned the work of the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation. The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism. One of the founding members of the Fund, Paula Sammons, who is a Program Associate of Family Income and Assets & Leadership at the W.K.

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Fund Personal Social New York City 40

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

One of the common characteristics of cloud-based services is the pay-by-month or pay-by-year model. TechSoup donor partner, Huddle , which is our cloud-based collaboration and content management donor partner has just broken that mold. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. It's our nature. What Does Huddle Do?

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License NGO Files Collaboration 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Congress are undermining decades of the sector’s work on immigration; women, minority and LGBTQ rights; the environment; and the social contract with government—among other issues. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, our research was recently published in “ The New Normal: Capacity Building During a Time of Disruption.”

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Build Culture Time Environment 80

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. When it comes to capacity, funding is an inescapable consideration for nonprofits. How much should the program expand?

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Connection Cafe

MAY 1, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education and industry leaders have been collaborating to respond and change course through this time of uncertainty. Donors also uniquely fit in to this picture: enabling research through funding innovation and basic science. Are there local markets we have not thought about sufficiently?

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Student Education Global Model 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. ” The members don’t necessarily develop powerful relationships and collaborations. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 25, 2011 Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector 2011: All quiet on the nonprofit front" posted by Angela Francis , Senior Associate Nonprofit Finance Fund Welcome to Research Friday ! Especially now, when it seems like increased demand and decreased funding availability are the new standards.

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Research Arizona Survey Fund 61

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consumers can ask you publicly about your social good efforts on social media, team members across the world need immediate access to a grant application, funding recipients in remote villages can provide previously inaccessible data, and more. . If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Our first program used private funds to pay restaurants to make meals for food-insecure San Franciscans who we reached through existing networks of care built by long-serving community-based organizations. We made a “playbook” outlining our systems and platforms and shared it so that our program model could be duplicated in other areas.

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San Francisco Model Community Build 111

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We're collaborative, bringing a valuable vantage point that stems from having worked with hundreds of community-based organizations. Entrepreneurship At ZeroDivide, we fund nonprofit organizations that employ new models of economic sustainability. But access to technology is just the starting point.

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San Francisco California Philanthropy Director 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

At the same time, nonprofits should be aware of the challenges and limitations to this emergent form of funding. The Nonprofit Finance Fund defines social impact investments as “investments that intend to generate positive social or environmental impact along with financial return.”

Impact 40

Impact Social Arizona Homeless 40

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. Helping the women receiving the funds.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. Kimberly Mitchell. National University. Founder and CEO. The Rockefeller Foundation. Victoria Vrana.

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Award Leadership Cleveland Hunger 57

Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s Global Energy Observatory ? We think it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s Global Energy Observatory ? We think it?s

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Database Map Global Project 52

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. The Federal government has recently launched Challenge.gov to enlist the public in helping to solve difficult problems. Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose.

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Reflection: Do your foundation’s governing documents or bylaws allow you to change or adjust funding strategy? I know of at least one private foundation that can only fund certain named organizations. Reflection: Is your funding outcomes focused? Do you tend to fund the same organizations year over year?

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Thailand Reflection Philadelphia Celebrate 20

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. You can model behavior all you want but if no one can tell what tools you are using to be so successful, there’s no way they can jump in and help man the ship. The gardener is simply there to help, cultivate, and clear the weeds if/when they poke up.

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