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Profile of ESRI Founder Jack Dangermond

Tech Soup

This summer, the Financial Times of London ran a very interesting profile piece on the founder of ESRI , the company that makes professional mapping software that has been so useful to nonprofit environmentalist organizations like Conservation International and international relief organizations like the Pacific Disaster Center.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

They started to conserve resources, send supplies to troops overseas and develop both civilian and refugee relief programs. The government also became much more involved in social and cultural welfare programs. This gave them greater voice in the government. Don’t be afraid of Uncle Sam.

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

According to Mark Rovner and Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies who led the recent webinar Procrastinator’s Guide to Year-End Fundraising with Kathryn Powers of Conservation International and moderated by Eric Rardin of Care2 and Rebecca Higman of Network of Good, this tactic has been helping organizations raise a lot of money.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: 15andcounting.org

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This comment struck me as well aligned with some made by Vikki Spruill from the Ocean Conservancy. The 15 refers to both the fiscal promises made by governments in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development ( ICPD ) and the age of the young people who need these services, who were born that year.

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E-Metrics Presentation: How ROI Thinking Can Help Expand Your Blog Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. tags: blogging nptech ). I suspect we may have several different types of people in our session: metrics measurement geeks in nonprofits and government - it's their full-time job.

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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

Let’s start with some examples (many of which were also presented at AAM): The Monterey Bay Aquarium maintains an Ocean Action group that visitors can join to get involved in advocacy for marine life and conservation. In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection).

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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

Connection Cafe

Q: I work in a museum that has a [conservative religious] governing board. Elizabeth) I tagged this article from Forbes early in my self-care research. I am a bisexual cis woman. Let them know this is a long-term effort to transform your work place. People know when something feels half-hearted.

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