Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

Recent years have seen several examples of moments that captured public attention—typically after years-long efforts and organizing before they burst into wider awareness. They all have a strong desire to mobilize public interest and advocate for systemic change. And, their impacts last.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

" and the trumpets sounded for transparency of government data and innovation. Now, Hope Street Group (a Forum One client) has opened up the policy making process with a new collaboration platform: Policy 2.0. Provide them with the tools to learn about, collaborate and refine real world policy recommendations.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

Operations & Leadership Programs Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How 10 min read Read Now 3. Develop a Public Relations Plan Advocacy is about being the voice of change. At the same time, you’ll need a slightly more formal public relations initiative that shapes and maintains your organization’s image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A recent study from two researchers affiliated with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has challenged the public perception about AI’s negative impact on society due to the “robots taking over jobs.” Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . This is a more macro lens.

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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. More public sharing : The point of breaking people up into groups is that there can be many more engaged groups instead of one large group with minimal participation.

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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. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? to developing recommendations collaboratively.

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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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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

It's all based on the constellation governance model, "a way of organizing a group of interested parties to meet a need without having to create a new organization.".( Tags: Associations collaboration case studies General non-profit interest Activism nptech. read more ).

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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”

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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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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. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains. Like this article? Get another!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

” The members don’t necessarily develop powerful relationships and collaborations. The term “collective impact” has been used to describe community collaborations or alignments of local organizations that want to improve a local system. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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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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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

Classy is focused on extending its lead in donor conversion and retention, while creating a new wave of recurring giving tools to help nonprofits build highly predictable revenue models that help them to maximize their service and impact. I’m proud to say, we’ve also accelerated our timeline to becoming a Public Benefit Corporation. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

In Nonprofit Quarterly, Jennifer Amanda Jones said, “Organizations that can regularly access training, can improve governance, program outcomes, fundraising and community engagement. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. It motivates and engages citizens across central and eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Turkey.

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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. Revisit your delivery models: Campuses were thrust into new delivery models – how do these become sustainable over time, and how can they best be utilized?

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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. Spent 15 years with Microsoft prior to Charity Navigator, the last 10 of which as their public-sector chief technology officer .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Among many insights gleaned from this week’s conference on “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” ( [link] ), one theme keeps recurring for me: the importance of grantmakers sharing power and control within broadly construed networks of collaborators in the quest for social change. Chris van Bergeijk, Hawaii Community Foundation.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. There are many different types of hackathons: from company hackathons (such as Facebook's All-Night Hackathon ) to government improvement hackathons (like #HackWeTrust.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

From collaboration to cost management, nonprofits are trying to protect their (precious little) infrastructure and enterprise while serving even more people. How can we expect nonprofits to pick up the slack of government cuts? This debt, however, comes with an interest expense, which is not reimbursed by government contracts.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

The approach is focused on organic collaboration and growth for the entire community. Another way to not take short cutes is to operate in public. This is a lot like operating in public but that you are sharing the tools you use and the strategies you use. No Short Cuts. Campaigns: 350.org. Media: Connectipedia.org.

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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. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication. Foundation application?

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

Now that you know how to place the right people in the right positions based on their skills to succeed, it is also important to ensure that you have implemented a governance model. So, what is Salesforce governance? Salesforce governance, specifically, includes three major components. Why Does Governance Matter?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

The nonprofit sector has the ability to achieve significant social change through collaboration across sectors. Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). When the U.S.

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Forum One

APRIL 17, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Caravan Studios' SafeNight app uses a similar model, in which individual donors can fund hotel rooms when domestic violence shelters are full. Connecting People to Vital Services.

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

His post was aimed at not-for-profit public media; I have genericized it somewhat ). Because using story well is our great chance in public media to be the leaders of our time. This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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