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 ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s (See Thomas Friedman?s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

To supplement this section, we compiled the best disaster preparedness apps from TechSoup donation partners, government agencies, other nonprofits, and more. The Esri ArcGIS app (Windows 8) is useful for organizations that wish to build their own relief-related maps. Government Agency Apps. Apps by TechSoup Donation Partners.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This past November, I had the pleasure of being in the audience when my colleague, Catherine LaCour, gave a talk on the Social Economy and posed the question—“ How will we build a better world? ” She described a road map for the future, with one of its superhighways being a focus on “radical collaboration.”.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The data is open to anybody or any organization with an interest or mission in government transparency and politics. Planet Labs is hoping that nonprofits as well as government agencies and academic institutions focused on environmental issues will take advantage of this constantly updated visual and geographic data.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. We tried to develop the best leadership program we could imagine, rooted in our museum''s collaborative, creative approach.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! How can we expect nonprofits to pick up the slack of government cuts?

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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. Quite the opposite. BlueGreen Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Not just to quietly listen, but participate in the discussion about applying a networked lens to nonprofit governance. (If you want to better understand what the term network mindset and what it has to do with nonprofit leadership, check out their recent paper on the topic.). We took a small first step by opening our board meeting.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Forum One created all of the site's branding elements, developed the site's information architecture, designed its visual look, and built the site using Drupal, a leading open-source content management system. Additionally, a user can view maps for individual counties, such as Fairfax County , Va., See Virginia's table.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. The open, public, and community-oriented nature of these challenges meant that "the community identifie[d] workable solutions to problems they think need to be solved.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

I've always evangelized the potential of tools like Facebook and Twitter to create meaningful communities and collaborations, but now realize the true opportunity for all of us who spend our days mixing up cocktails of mission and technology: . In the midst of inexplicable tragedy, my personal definition of the social web got rocked.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. Chicago, Illinois: Justice Data Lab: Unlocking Government Administrative Data. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee & Convo.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Thursday, February 9, 2017. Friday, February 10, 2017.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

Generator participants think collaboratively about obstacles and ways to accelerate their organization's impact. Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals. With open data from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Caravan has added information on 17,000 U.S. spanhidden.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. The District, never a beacon for transparent governance, sought to reverse course when he joined the new Adrian Fenty’s administration.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Think of it like this: In “Community-driven Social Impact,” the driving is up to the community; but you can act as the vehicle and event the map for those “drivers.” The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally. So, what is that opportunity?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! million in government grants , although Ill guess that those were probably really contracts.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. For over a decade, our annual Advancing Human Rights research has mapped trends in funding for human rights, breaking down funding into three major categories: issues, strategies, and populations.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. You need to be open to the purposelessness of innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Open code mirrors the values of our own community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If the new web is about a spirit of openness and sharing how do you incorporate a group of people into the process who have historically shared to the point of exploitation? This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. The work that the Center does is crucial in rural communities, where it improves the health of rural populations and helps to keep many rural hospitals open.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Catholic Relief Services is leading a partnership with the Institut duBien-Être Social et de Recherches (IBESR) , the Government University Department of Social Work and VisionLink to develop an interactive directory of resources and services that can be easily accessed using web, smartphone and tablet (or printed for offline access).

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think also I’ve seen a more openness with certain types of funders who are interested in supporting organizations and providing those unrestricted funds because they realize that there’s a lot of recording burdens. You have the whiteboard that you can map them out. And some applications actually require it.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties. Department of Energy.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. Mapping Metro Stations. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below. Vote for this Idea].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2015

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. It's not just technologists or data experts, but also community members, activists, and government officials. Mapping Oakland's public bathrooms (or lack thereof). Why Open Data Is Important.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So make that map and keep it updated so when a new product comes into your environment, somebody. Third thing, back to your technology inventory, mapping your universe of all the stuff you’ve got. Much more powerful, much easier to get a tech return on investment if you are managing things in a collaborative way.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Whatever your passion – from mapping urban trees to advising nonprofits or building apps to make information more accessible – tune in to your ever-active nonprofit technology community to be inspired and stay connected! The report is a product of the Technology for Engagement Summit which convened early this summer.

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