Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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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. With support from stakeholders in the education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities, Benetech changed that reality.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually talking about one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. Ping pong tables. Bean bag chairs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. Systems-level collaboration. In the basic PFS model, private. financing structures demand intensive, highly motivated collaboration. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually describing one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. What do you think of the Zappos model?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Families playing, vendors hawking, students kissing, old ladies kibitzing. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. They play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, advancing causes, and driving change across diverse industries and sectors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Leadership.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. And as you all know, capital campaigns have been around for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Throughout the year you can connect with other donors and funders and the people we serve (artists, students, activists).”. Allow voting for the board (if you have this membership model).

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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. Organizational Strategy: Design, structure, and vision for your Salesforce org(s). Why Does Governance Matter? Aligning Governance + Vision.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Because the focus of the book is on organizational structure and not on specific acts or events, Light spends almost no time describing each organization or its particular innovations. Instead, he uses illustrative examples from each to support broad theses about leadership styles, internal structures, and operational strategies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

Our conversation began with Jessica describing what a community supported kitchen is: Jessica Prentice: The idea behind the community supported kitchen is that we are modeling a new way of preparing and processing food on a community scale. How do they stay in touch and maintain collaborations?" It's been fairly informal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

To get empathy for your participants or students, it is always good to be a participant in other programs. collaboration and interaction opportunities between participants, local experts, and others. The design included the following structure to allow for full group and small group dialogue, interaction, and exercises.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in.

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