Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. The Government's ??1.2 million invitation to tender for a third sector innovation exchange has prompted an innovative response - an "open source bid" under which people are invited to share ideas with one team that is preparing a proposal.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

O , he says, stands for open. If you don’t have an open environment inside your company or country, these new tools will blow you wide open. I is for individuals, who are able to reach around the globe to start something or collaborate on something farther, faster, deeper, cheaper than ever before — as individuals.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

It has been five years now since the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling that opened the door to 501(c)(4) nonprofits and massive anonymous "dark money" political contributions for political ads. If the foundation likes your idea, and you become a semifinalist, foundation staff members will help you refine and develop the proposal.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

GCF seeks to target these areas to help fill the gaps in climate financing through Requests for Proposals (RfP) and pilot programmes which are focused on specific themes. Grant funds are made available across a variety of categories, based on donor intent and the guidance of our Governing Committee. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

It's a great gathering of policy wonks, transparency advocates, IT geeks in from in and out of government - all excited and busy with shaping a whole new day in how government information will be made more accessible, valuable and transparent. Tags: Events Technology Communication Collaboration Strategy. Technorati Tag: TCamp09.

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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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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Jan 13 - 15. Strategic.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Government funding and donor support. Identify potential partners and collaborators. There are several potential partners and collaborators for a nonprofit organization. Encourage open communication, collaboration, and teamwork among your team members. Financial projections. Strategies for achieving those goals.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. The community will see that you aren’t making changes, aren’t communicating, and aren’t collaborating and will disengage. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11. Communities are flexible.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Boards are struggling to collaborate, make important decisions, and generate community support. Not to mention, technology also opens up opportunities for those with accessibility concerns (like hearing, physical, or visual impairments) to participate. Improved nonprofit governance. Take comprehensive minutes.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 15, 2009

We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative. We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. We need real world events to be a central part of our online organizing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

It could be instituting a community process like the one the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle uses to invite community groups to propose and co-design exhibits on topics of extreme relevance to them in the museum. They are open seasonally and have small visitation. I live a life governed by these two questions. Make a list.

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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. And thinking about the description of the opportunity, is it an open RFP process?

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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

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Hybrids include a mix of openness and curated decision-making by experts.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

But when you see it flying, unfettered in the open sky, you’ll undoubtedly think it is one of the most beautiful sights you’ll ever witness. Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Maybe, if you’re really lucky, you’ll get me to show up for a free event like an open house or something on Zoom. Who could you engage with? People people.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

Metro4All is actually a collaboration of people in different countries interested in addressing mass transit accessibility. They have also worked with socially minded IT groups, for instance, people interested in hackathons or open data. So far, their attempts to work with government transportation authorities have failed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

Citizens should seek opportunities to create and share public knowledge and discuss public issues; expect their governments to be open, transparent and collaborative; volunteer to the best of their ability; and create and share knowledge about the networks and relationships in their communities." [1].

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. Charity Digital News in the UK just announced that the Digital Leaders 100 competition in the UK is now open to nominations. This 25 th. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

This is the first in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. Next Tuesday, we'll experiment with an "open thread" post, in which you are encouraged to share your own experiences (positive and negative) with innovation in organizations.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2007

When I learned about YPAC, I thought it was pretty smart idea, of course, so I proposed a partnership to Thaddeus Ferber , Chair of YPAC, to help accelerate the online organizing that YPAC is spurring in the child advocacy sector. Given the collaborative nature of YPAC, I suppose I shouldnt have been surprised that Thaddeus was game.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

An investor seeks to maximize return over the long haul and is open to exploring any number of vectors to achieve those long term dividends. Find out what MY goals are and then propose something that helps me accomplish them. ” A buyer seeks to acquire something for limited use or a single purpose. Sponsors want a benefit.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And so we don’t want those predictions to come through at all, and grant funding is one way literally to help you keep the doors open. Government grants, which include state and U.S. I wrote this one just a month or two ago about what to do with unsolicited proposals. Grants are still out there. No, no, no.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Thousands of government institutions are already using digital participation platforms. At Open Society Foundations, we are interested in the potential for digital tools to encourage meaningful participation, and as such we supported the establishment of FundAction, a digital fund and platform in Europe.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In mid-November, I had the pleasure of traveling to upstate NY to collaborate with the talented Nimble Research & Development and Product Management teams – and it snowed! Community Brands research always offers eye – opening trends in what ’s driv ing association professionals a nd members. Data security. Member engagement.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Early days – proposal stage… but will happen! Like you, I thought there was that the window of opportunity was blown open by the storm and that perhaps we’d hear the story first-hand from municipal, state and federal authorities. There’s a lot in here that applies to the government [.]

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