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Appeals Court Rules Funding Process A Contract, Not A Grant

The NonProfit Times

The judges also determined the rules of the granting process in Fearless Foundation’s “Fearless Strivers Grant Contest,” constituted a contract and were therefore subject to anti racial-discrimination statutes found in 42 U.S. In declarations filed with the court, all three asserted they “meet the nonracial requirements for the contest.”

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“Survey Says” VS. Research

Achieve

by both the contestants and the survey respondents. To create and launch a survey is relatively inexpensive in comparison to a multi-phase research study. The Millennial Impact Project. including the most recent Millennial Impact Report. The show’s success was no doubt derived from the often outrageous answers.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

Their school dropout rate decreased in comparison with the national statistics. This story was a winner in TechSoup's global case studies contest highlighting the very best impact stories from TechSoup's network of 63 partners serving 121 countries. Images: OvidiuRo. spanhidden.

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Harnessing Office 365 to Send Every Child to Preschool

Tech Soup

Their school dropout rate decreased in comparison with the national statistics. This story was a winner in TechSoup's global case studies contest highlighting the very best impact stories from TechSoup's network of 63 partners serving 121 countries. Images: OvidiuRo. spanhidden.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: My colleague, Aliza Sherman, has written a book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing and you drop everything and buy it now. We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman.

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User Generated Content Wins Again

Connection Cafe

However, the Doritos/crystal ball commercial was the most notable for me, and come to find out it was shot by two guys from Indiana that entered their spot in a contest and ended up winning $1 million. By watching the Doritos ad in comparison to the other glossy, overdone, way too expensive spots, I could tell it was different.