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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Culture of Iteration. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. Nancy said that funding closes their organization off from innovation because funders often held them to what they wrote in the grant proposal 2 years ago. “It It is ongoing.”. What’s good? What’s impact?

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. Communications & Public Relations.

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