Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

All for-profit and nonprofit organizations will enormously benefit from similar tune ups to ensure operations are performing at peak efficiency. We often hear that nonprofits should model themselves more like businesses. This can take a wide range of forms from intimate recognition events to much larger public events.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I look forward to continuing the conversation the book has opened. We see tremendous innovations in social enterprise, but these are merely part of larger, global changes in the ways in which society organizes itself to create public goods. Our lower cost model allowed us to invert the power structure. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. Deb Levine from ISIS shared, “Many organizations in public health area are still relying on process measures (how many visitors, how many links in, how many friends, etc.). Digital IQ Public Sector Benchmark. Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field. They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Think about the newspaper model. Content Strategy is basically bringing elements of the newspaper model to websites. Are you conversational, formal, academic, cutesy? Let’s say you have a library of 100,000 publications. Record the 50 most recent and the 50 oldest publications. Who needs to approve photos?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

The upbeat tone of the Google Ad Grant email, that highlighted the lifting of the $2 bid max for maximize conversions buried the real lead. For 2018, Michelle’s team is driving toward higher CTR and conversion rate in order to connect more people with social causes. We’ve posted the exact email at the bottom of this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited. Transmedia – Making Change Across Mediums by Danny Alpert, Executive Director, Kindling Group and Executive Producer, See3 Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Nasscom celebrates a wide open conversation and spreading thought leadership between the various sectors represented. Can we take our collective knowledge and use it to drive public services in many states to a new level of transparency? In the US, many of IT conferences are often silos of these different audiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. We’re pleased to contribute to today’s theme, celebrating the fifth of the six principles: Fair Use Rights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog. Money is not the driving force for most people who are involved in charitable causes for the public good and social change and community actions. Still, as a topic of conversation, money is undeniably one-dimensional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. E-Mediat is working with more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Mohammad L. Azzam with Bill Gates.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The blurring lines between government, nonprofit and for-profit sectors have led to innovative vehicles to fund interventions that address society’s most intractable problems. posted by Abby Elsener Assistant Director of Development, ASU Foundation. Social impact bonds (SIBs), also known as pay for success programs, are not actually bonds.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Conversations around these topics has been further amplified thanks in large part to a more informed and sustainability-minded investment community led by changemakers such as Larry Fink at BlackRock and a more engaged and activated workforce that is influencing CSR strategy at companies and within the changing social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

We will publish a number of these stories as “Conversational&# case studies over the next few weeks on both Kami’s blog Communication Overtones and here on Beth’s Blog. Aligning with a cause is a great way for a for-profit company to both raise its profile while doing something good for society at large.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. A gift economy for the public sector? business model that supports the gifts. loosely coupled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. Let's look at why and where crowdsourcing can be useful when organizations (private, public or not-for-profit) are facing important new or emerging issues.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

We have projects where we facilitate educational conversation around the legacy of this history through movies. There are companies that have done that, and those companies could be models for others that are looking to make those changes themselves. We have a project where we put up markers all across the country at lynching sites.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2019

One key point during the conversation revolves around changing the thought process that social good organizations need to have regarding their long-term strategy versus traditional definitions of impact. And so at the lab we’re able to, from the funding side, pioneer flexible mechanisms that would better support innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West. Trust me. What works?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. I've sat through a lot of debates recently about whether not-for-profits should migrate to the cloud. This was really brought home by two conversations.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

For that reason, most nonprofits turn to the for-profit world for solutions. Those solutions—those companies—see the nonprofit world as a “market,” and in our capitalist society, markets are meant to be exploited for profit. How can we build something that is immune to the whims of the for-profit market? A tech start-up.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

No doubt about it, Lady Gaga is a conversation starter. She modeled how easy it is to take action and contact your elected officials, galvanized her fans to get involved and then put the spotlight on their grassroots efforts. Are they a rising star who could use the publicity? Author: Rachel Muir. What will you get out of it?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2015

If you run a for-profit business, the bottom line is your financial profit. I''ve been thinking about all of this recently because I''m in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a for-profit real estate developer to enhance a public plaza adjacent to my museum. business models evaluation institutional change'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

What do non-profits need to do to thrive? Harrison is building a non-profit capable of breaking thru the cynicism his generation (he’s 34) has for large, bureaucratic non-profits. The closing doors of non-profit organizations due, a.k.a. Behind the password, is a conversation taking place about many issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2007

public role,??? Naturally, he has some thoughts on this: Non-profits struggle with how to apply for funds in a way that is meeting the criteria of the funder without compromising on their basic mission. However, I'd guess that part of the experiment is to learn about how virtual worlds shift discourse and decision making.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Technology For Results Not Profits panel Saturday, March 13 11:00 AM – “When technology is leveraged around passion and purpose for the sake of results not profits, powerful things can happen. The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. Communities are flexible. Principles.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

In the last few months, it seems that at every social gathering I attend, the conversation gets around to "Newspapers - what's going to happen to them?" The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. This is not a business model that makes sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Battle Non Profit submitted by Beth Kanter Using just one special ingredient (a small in-need non profit), three web teams will meet in the heat of Austin to craft an exceptional meal, featuring a tasty new homepage design, a well-seasoned fundraising email and a perfectly balanced social networking plan. THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

During the conference, with the help of Twitter, a few of us from the nonprofit sector were able to find each other and have an impromptu lunch conversation about applying lean to the noprofit work. Is this an advantage or disadvantage when it comes to nonprofits applying the lean start up model to their social change work?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. General / @southwestfdns.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Well look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it. An interactive conversation between past and present elected officials and the audience on political leadership in the digital era. Non-Profits: Be the Web You Wish to See! Im @stanley00.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 13, 2021

Increase donation form conversion: Pre-populate fields on Elevate Giving Pages using parameters in the URL. (US Generate accounting data for any purpose with Accounting Subledger for any Data Model. Six years ago, he co-founded his own non-profit, Piedmont Makers, dedicated to support and inspire K-12 S.T.E.A.M. and 10:00 A.M.

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