Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Be open to collaborating on programs, events, and funding opportunities with other local organizations that serve the same or complementary constituencies. Develops new programming Writing proposals introduces the opportunity for new or enhanced programming.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

I had the opportunity to speak with both Gallucci and Roy about this unique funder collaborative and more specifically about how the Partnership to Strengthen Innovation and Practice in Secondary Education would measure the impact of their investments. This is a hopeful time in the long arc of inclusive education.

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Education Philanthropy Africa Foundation 164

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. Defeated in fact.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2023

Engage FedGov honorees stand out from the crowd for their willingness to drive bold approaches and innovative engagement strategies while supporting a culture shift across the Federal sector which values collaboration, open communication, transparency, and partnership between and across the Federal government and industry partner ecosystems.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Submit a request for proposal (RFP). After sending your RFP to your top options, you’ll receive their proposed plans for guiding your website design project.

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Forum One

JANUARY 5, 2023

She believes that every problem can be solved with good communication, collaboration, and chocolate pretzels. My resume is speckled with strategy and user experience (UX) roles, so I always enjoy an opportunity to tap into this passion and collaborate with Forum One’s creative experts. So…what do you do?

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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's totally open," Worman said.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Grant Proposal And that’s not all. Avoid vague prompts: Avoid prompts that are vague or open-ended, as these can lead to unpredictable or irrelevant responses. Not to mention, if you need information on something that happened in the last couple of years, you’re out of luck ; Open AI last trained ChatGPT prior to 2021.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 93

Classy

JULY 5, 2021

A corporate matching partner involves collaborating with a large business. Since today’s consumers are demanding more social responsibility and impact from the companies they support, brands also often already have giving programs established for cross-collaboration, so you won’t necessarily be pitching them a new idea. Corporate.

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Donation Influence Local Nonprofit 108

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Rob Acker, CEO of Salesforce.org, opening our keynote session. 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.

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San Diego Student Education Philanthropy 128

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

In addition to bringing issues into the open, you need to build a mechanism in which there is a consistent opportunity for calling in/calling out behaviors: Are there structural and procedural processes in place in which to have these feedback conversations? Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

DNL OmniMedia

MAY 21, 2023

Develop Your RFP Once you know the scope of your project, you can begin developing a request for proposal (RFP). An RFP is a document you will share with consultants that provides details about your project and requests a proposal for how they would go about completing that project.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

I have followed the development of Social Actions over the last few years and really believe in the work that Peter, Christine and the community have done to shape a collaborative, open tool that benefits so many people and organizations in all kinds of ways. See the comment thread here and add your thoughts!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Or better yet…ask them to collaborate on a fundraiser or to directly give you a mini-grant.

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Fundraising Mail Law Donation 352

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

If you have a good relationship with a local vineyard, coffee roaster, or brewery, you might even propose a special vintage, roast, or brew just for your nonprofit or event. Technology has truly opened doors for innovative new formats and types of fundraisers that engage people in different ways: Augmented reality.

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Ideas Fundraising Artist Nebraska 52

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the participants was Ericha Hager, the Regional Collaborative Coordinator for Community Media Access Partnership. My project this year is to create a collaborative among seven different community media centers (CMCs) in the greater bay area. What were your goals for engaging with them? We had our fundraising meeting on March 25.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. For example, you may want to measure total visits, the number of proposals submitted, the dollars raised, and first-time or qualification visits. Accountability meetings keep a pulse on things and maintain open communication. Clarify roles and responsibilities.

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Develop Management Gift Proposal 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Given that the challenge is open to all nonprofits “experienced in AI to those with an idea for how they could be putting their data to better use,” what advice do you have organizations that do not have deep experience or technical expertise implementing AI and want to participate? Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ?

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Often the two teams collaborate in managing the site, with the communications team leading and the technology shop helping to get the technology, IT process and infrastructure in place (especially if you will be hosting the website internally). You can bring on a partner who will walk you through the process. Developing the RFP.

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Government Websites Proposal Digital 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. 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. The Government's ??1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Working in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook, the contest invites “everyday givers” to reflect upon why they give to a certain nonprofit organization and then share these personal stories on social media. Submissions will be open until December 31st, 2016 at 5pm ET. Blog Posts.

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Grant Storytelling Contest Philanthropy 99

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The conference schedule for NTC has been developed openly and collaboratively. I am part of four different proposals and would love to have a chance to share some of the ideas and experiences I’ve had with all of you at the event (even if you can’t come in person, you know I’ll post my notes and ideas on this blog!).

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NTC Atlanta Proposal Conference 111

Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

The need for open data from NGOs is reiterated, while the way philanthropy has promoted the global Open Government Partnership is explained. Philanthrocapitalists Propose a Social Progress Index. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. We Need Open Data To Change The World.

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Map Trend Data Open Source 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? The emphasis will be not just on the technology itself, but the processes of using technology to collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

Fund for Shared Insight (Shared Insight), a funder collaborative that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy, has released a national open request for proposals for its signature initiative, Listen for Good (L4G). If you answered an enthusiastic “Yes!” to these questions, keep reading!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Together, participants collaborate, innovate, and discover new ways to spark change with technology. It starts with a six-week period to gather session proposals from the community, followed by two weeks of voting — which just started this week! Voting is open to everyone and ends October 25th, so be sure to mark your favorites now!

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Colorado Digital Audience Denver 46

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

AUGUST 27, 2012

If you are proposing a panel, leave a comment. Social Media Smackdown: Online VS Offline Impact - [link] coordinated by Kayta Andresen. The Nonprofit Narrative - [link] coordinated by Dan Portnoy. There were thousands of entries – so I probably missed a couple of good nonprofit panels.

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Doc ROI Measure Austin 101

Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2016

Nonprofit educators, leaders, and consultants from multiple countries submitted over 540 session proposals to NTEN. TechSoup and NetSquared NTC Session Proposals. Frontline Support: Open Space Events for UK Nonprofit Infrastructure and Volunteering Organizations submitted by Pauline Roche @paulineroche , co-presenter: @watfordgap.

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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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Develop Technology Social Articulate 96

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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