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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. private and community foundations. as measured by total giving.

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11 Outstanding Nonprofit Reports You Should Read

Care2

This great workbook from Idealware and Darim Online provides insightful questions, exercises, and a sample policy template that community managers can use as a starting point in creating an organization’s official social media policy. Debra Askanase has a great review of the workbook that I’d recommend you check out as well.

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SSIR Post: Swine Flu or Why Local Organizations Matter

Amy Sample Ward

I think this comparison, and context, is a great example of why local (read: non-global) organizations are still key in social change work, and why we need to be building stronger networks for data and information sharing. This, again, holds true for organizations working on social change issues. What makes this more powerful?

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. It is also true that it was far from a representative sample of people here at the US Social Forum (which is way more female and of color than that group.) That speaks volumes to me.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. The Kintera API looks, quite honestly, seriously wimpy in comparison to either Convio or Salesforce.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Over 180 people with over 635,000 total followers signed up to participate by authorizing Epic Change to post via their Twitter account using JustCoz , an online relay system that lets you donate a tweet a day to help raise awareness for causes that matter to you.