Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

The events of this past year have changed giving as we know it and the role of technology has never played a more important part in helping nonprofits fund their missions. We just raised $118 million in Series D funding and, with that, we plan to overwhelmingly invest in our product and engineering teams. Q: So what’s next for Classy?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. "Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Foundation application?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

To the Diplomatic Conference in Plenary on June 27, 2013 On the Adoption of the Treaty of Marrakech This is an excellent Treaty. That support includes the sharing of best practices in accessible book production, model agreements for readers with disabilities, and open source access technology for reading the books.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. We deliver philanthropic donors exciting returns on their investments (i.e.,

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! As this collection of fantastic conferences continues to grow, we'll be updating event details like ticket prices and event hashtags - you're welcome! Drop us a line!

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Care2

MARCH 24, 2015

A startup, social venture, or nonprofit that has a rapidly scalable business model. Did you know that only 7% of women-led startups receive investor funding, despite that fact that women-led startups have 35% more return on investment than tech companies founded by men. Who Can Apply? Fast growing with degrees of innovation.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

On April 16-18, 2023, 3,600+ fundraising professionals descended on New Orleans, LA for AFP ICON’s 63 rd annual conference, the largest turnout in six years. One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. Following this trend, Meta has introduced Meta Verified. “If

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. While we remain committed to serving people with disabilities, our work with Arkenstone and Bookshare has created a model that is being replicated by Benetech and many others in new fields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

There are no traditional offices with doors to close, but there are conference rooms with doors. There is also this mini-conference room for 2 or 3 person meetings. Book conference rooms thoughtfully – there’s a shortest of conference rooms, so this encourages people to use the conference when they booked it.

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Open Work Global Collaboration 107

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

On May 11th, 2021 join us for a virtual conference unlike any other. Inovo is a global consulting firm that helps purpose-driven leaders with innovative and profitable business models to pursue social change. It’s that time of year again, Cause Camp 2021 is just around the corner! Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. The second group of enablers of the brighter future are business model innovations. Technology advances have created the opportunity for many of us to experiment with one or more of these models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Less restrictive funding. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Less onerous reporting requirements.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind.

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India Literacy Global Accessibility 142

NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Past winners have had a hand in creating and funding the biggest organizations in our space, built nonprofit technology communities large and small, and are exploring and sharing some of the most interesting and innovative technology models. 13ntc Community nonprofit technology conference nten awards' 2008: Vince Stehle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For instance, you’ll create a sustainable fundraising model and have reliable funding coming in throughout the year that you can put toward various budgeting needs. This comes in the form of unrestricted revenue, so your organization can put the funds toward necessary but often underfunded operating expenses or future budgeting needs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Our networks grew exponentially through all the events and conferences we attended in the Bay Area. The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

Note From Beth: I’m on my way to Australia and New Zealand lead a series of workshops on Networked Nonprofits and Measurement, culminating with a keynote at this year’s ConnectingUp Conference in Australia, so expect to see a few interesting guest posts. ” Enjoy. … Read More Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Professional development plans/funds.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Learn more about the insights they shared, including the future of funding. When the pandemic hit, BGCA quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model in order to continue making an impact. The two discussed innovative solutions to the challenges facing nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. Click to see larger version.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Our networks grew exponentially through all the events and conferences we attended in the Bay Area. The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing.

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2013

In nominating Jamie Biggar for the prize, a distinguished panel of nonprofit sector judges said: "Jamie Biggar is founder and executive director of Leadnow ( www.leadnow.ca ), the Canadian cross-issue advocacy organization built on the MoveOn / 38 Degrees / Avaaz organizing model. Below is a brief video shown at the awards luncheon.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. Our networks grew exponentially through all the events and conferences we attended in the Bay Area. The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing.

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Chapter San Francisco Test Synchronous 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO 2012 conference is off to a great start. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference in Seattle, I attended the session, “Navigating the New Media Landscape,” which brought together expert panelists: Andrew Sherry, VP of Communications for the John S. The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” and James L. million in 2009 to $687.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

” After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Members of the network can take advantage of whatever makes sense for their organization–like a cafeteria model. The message was that the network was open to everyone.

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Boston Network Story Case Study 83

Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. This year, my 4th, promises to be the best yet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

I attended the Coleman Institute Conference on technology and people with cognitive disabilities last week. I have been aware of the incredible advances in human genomics and animal models for different diseases and conditions. Katheleen's work is around mouse models of Down Syndrome.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

At the SHARE Conference last month, I spent time watching venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and techies praise how the sharing economy was the new way to make money and catalyze sharing and change. Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! )

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Inspired by a session on busting organizational silos through digital storytelling delivered by the See3 team at the most recent Nonprofit Technology Conference, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is using its web content to move out the silos and bring in the stories. Build story-gathering into your process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Note From Beth: Frank Barry from BlackBaud kindly agreed to write a guest post showcasing some of the best presentations caught on video at the BlackBaud’s Conference last week. Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. Tags: Conferences Guest Post. We had 2,200 attendees!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The US Department of Education recognized that Parent Centers could increase their impact through technology and allotted funding for 8 pilot centers that represent the cross section of abilities in the network to test a technology model. We knew that this technology project was worthy of a significant change in the way we work.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. I guess I'll be grateful for that, as it was my being vocal about my displeasure over the timing of the conference that introduced me to many of the people in the organization I hold dear today. . No checked luggage, no security lines.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 15, 2007

If you, or someone you know, is working on a tech for social impact project, please encourage them to nominate their project for a NetSquared Innovation Fund Award. On April 16 we will announce the 20 NetSquared Featured Projects that will receive an all-expense paid trip to the NetSquared Conference in San Jose, CA May 29-30, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Conferences' In Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In a small way we've begun such a process with the new collaborative PhD funding in Oxford's Museums, Libraries and Gardens [link] — Dan Hicks (@profdanhicks) November 11, 2019 Nikhil Trivedi suggested reading Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun's White Supremacy Culture document and reflecting on how those issues relate to management.

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