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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

The government is even planning to appoint a chief data officer to manage the effort, earning praise from the Open Data Institute as the most advanced government in the field of open data. local governments are using open data to improve their services. Now we're asking you to join the conversation. Here in the U.S.,

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Online fundraising: Leveraging compliance as a development strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit. By registering and maintaining licenses to solicit wherever requirements exist, nonprofits not only can solicit by any lawful means, but they also can leverage their registration status to seek additional funding opportunities in those states.

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Online fundraising: leveraging compliance as a development strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

Almost every state requires nonprofits to file annually to renew their license to solicit. By registering and maintaining licenses to solicit wherever requirements exist, nonprofits not only can solicit by any lawful means, but they also can leverage their registration status to seek additional funding opportunities in those states.

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Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

Bring them into conversations early so that they are included in the strategies going forward. Be sure to evaluate any existing integrations that may be available and keep this in consideration when evaluating licensing and overall costs. Plan for governance and maintenance . Choose open and extensible systems and platforms .

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Leadership Development in Nonprofits: Identifying Toxic Signs of Ego in Your Development Space

ASU Lodestar Center

Here are a few toxic signs of ego to watch out for that will invade your sacred meeting space and derail leadership development: Steamroller: To steamroll a conversation is to take the focus off a subject and turn it into being all about one person. Government Executive. 6 Common Leadership Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Even non- conspiracy theorists would likely have a hard time summoning up "transparent" as one of the top three adjectives to describe our government.