Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Like climbing a mountain, it helps to have a path to follow to reach its summit, or in this case, a map of sorts to guide you to your desired destination—a compelling proposal that unlocks funding to advance your mission-driven work. Information about your organization and its experience addressing your proposal’s key need or problem.

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Proposal Grant Summary Project 106

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This means that we help them to transform their business — not only digitally, but using a human-centered approach that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of a problem-solving process. Ecosystem map representing the adopt-a-project concept with key value exchanges. Adopt A Project.

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Philanthropy Impact Support Gambia 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crisis Camps.

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Haiti Map Volunteer Tech 96

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

One of the principles of A More Beautiful Question is to continue to question your questions until you get to the more beautiful question for the problem you are trying to solve. “A We also discussed how to incorporate existing and third-party tools to help with data management and problem-solving.

Data 76

Data Management Denver Policy 76

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The podcast, which is done in collaboration with iHeartRadio, is hosted by bestselling author Baratunde Thurston and spotlights leaders across the nonprofit, for-profit, and education sectors in their work to tackle some of the biggest problems facing the world. Philanthropy Cloud is Delivering a Corporate Citizen Employee Experience.

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San Diego Student Education Philanthropy 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. There are apps that allow participants to use “ virtual sticky notes ” to do an exercise but these are not well designed for group collaboration. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When staff are able to map out what the AI can do and what they can do, they get a view of their job role that they have never had before. It helps them cultivate essential human skills like adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving, which are invaluable in a world increasingly shaped by AI.

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Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. People and Connections Map : Helps you map your network.

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Method Ideas Adopt Facilitation 116

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

I have no problem against the latter as long as you are positively affecting the company’s bottom line and meeting your goals but I do have a few things to say to social media strategists who have been hired to do their job but end up spending more time just wrestling within their office corridors to go “social.”"

Web 126

Web Map Bookmarking Culture 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Tags: Collaboration Environment Technology.

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Database Map Global Project 52

Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? s very innovative in its open-source and collaborative approach, it?s The GEO project is intended to collect and show data and geospatial information (on maps) of energy resources, generation, transmission, usage, and environmental impacts. Tags: Technology Environment Collaboration.

Database 52

Database Map Global Project 52

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.

Data 98

Data Free Help Conservancy 98

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Like many years in the past, 2017 continued to bring significant change to the way foundations approach their grantmaking, collaborate with each other, collaborate with their grant partners, collaborate with the public and private sectors and how they are utilizing technology and data to drive their strategy forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Responsive tech support.

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Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

Or anything else with a center (read: core idea or problem) and shoots (related points to consider for that idea realization or problem solving). The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span.

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Map Mind Free Tools 122

NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

Quinn, Idealware and Amy Wagner, MAP For Nonprofits Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford. MAP for Nonprofits and Idealware collaborated on six months of research that began with a survey of 180 human service organizations in Minnesota. Have you done some creative problem-solving to with technology?

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Service Technology Teen Map 77

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The Problem. In sum, illegal dumping can be seen as a kind of metaphor for the lack of social responsibility that stands in the way of addressing a range of problems. At its most basic level, you photograph the dump and post a pin on a global Trash Map. Written by Daniel Ben-Horin, Founder and Chief Instigator, TechSoup Global.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Because they share, they can solve classroom problems together and support each other in their classwork. I don't want to get into a long diatribe about why we don't share in the nonprofit sector; lots of great posts already accurately define the problem. Imagine if we did that in the nonprofit sector.

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Data Classroom Hunger Learning 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Analysis Social Network Social Media Network 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. Why this resource?

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Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Collaboration via social media has enabled the program to come together and launch. Here’s 5 key steps to mapping your work towards metrics: Problem : Be as specific as possible, focus on the problems you will be addressing directly (not just changing the world).

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Community Case Study Haiti Social Media 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2011

The Problem: A 1 in 20,000 Chance of Finding a Match. This collaboration will allow us to tap a community of creative folks to solve the issue of donor diversification and to help improve the lives of cancer patients. We’d love your ideas for solving this significant problem. The design encourages people to connect and create.

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Cancer University Social Media Platform 92

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." " The Identity Spectrum – Identity Woman – I love this spectrum map of the various kinds of online identity!

Web 117

Web San Francisco Bookmarking Search 117

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing.

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News Technology Cancer Map 52

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But the more I heard them explain it, the more I started thinking about how the current design “table” is a big problem in and of itself. . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. Minimalism is the opposite of diversity. .

Design 52

Design System Structure Ratio 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. When I first started pursuing the idea of using technology to solve challenging social problems, it was a pretty radical idea.

Develop 144

Develop Social Library eBook 144

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.) I also noticed participants using their mobile phones to capture the strategy posters and network maps. Reflection.

Training 98

Training Train Reflection Design 98

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. A year-long program with an intention to ignite new collaborations across the County to build a stronger, more connected community.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media in this context, “is in networks growing and collaborating, not silo-ing&# (@ amysampleward ) or “ connecting/leveraging/magnifying the work of people who’re already aware&# (@ HildyGottlieb ). Collaborative mapping of climate change policy [link]. link] is a climate change wiki.

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Social Media Change Media Lesson 145

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Those of us who sell strategy services for a living tend to rely on the desire for measured approaches to big problems. Nowhere is this truer than in the online collaboration space. Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. Online discussions?

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Internet Tools Strategy Learning 50

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. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Quite the opposite.

Build 220

Build Community Technology Action 220

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Collaboration with experienced digital fundraisers is invaluable to learn what resonates. Use surveys and donor journey mapping to understand how people engage initially and over time. This helps show the mission’s importance.

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

Consider these areas, and how incorporating some of these ways of thinking into your organization can inspire innovative solutions to old problems or challenges. Gary Bolles from Singularity University said it perfectly: “Only by having a diverse set of problem solvers will you solve the problems of tomorrow.” Be intentional.

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Impact Social Hype Europe 28

Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

For Zero1, an organization whose mission is at the intersection of art and technology, a tech-based approach to this problem makes perfect sense. A remarkable part of the judging portion of the event – and of the hackathon overall – was the collaborative energy sparked among the teams. A Community Comes Together.

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Arts Tech San Francisco Proposal 58

Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

A Simple Solution for a Complex Problem. Fill-in color maps, text recognition, and interactive math and science programs help the students improve their schoolwork by approaching assignments in different ways. The project would not be a success today without the collaborative efforts of key stakeholders.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners. We uncover hidden problems and opportunities.” Are collaboration tools working effectively? Using data to create scenarios and simulations is another powerful problem-solving tool. Kevin is right.

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Technology Evaluation System Associations 170