AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Goodbye Checkbook, Hello Tablet: Fundraising Goes Mobile - The Network: Cisco''s Technology News Site : At a recent fundraising party in San Jose Calif., there was a signature cocktail selling for $20, tasty appetizers paired with designer wines, and an iPad, making its way around the room.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change. – 5:00 p.m.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The animating principle of Kresge’s Arts & Culture Program is equitable Creative Placemaking, which elevates arts, culture, and community-engaged design as central elements of community development and planning. Areas served: San Jose, St. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Highland Street Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Crowdsourcing is a killer business model, effectively stitching the market research process into the very design of products, minimizing overhead costs, and speeding up the creative phase of problem solving and design. Next Stop Design Process. Crowdsourcing the Genome . Nitrogen Wiki .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. As Nelson comments in the video, this particular gathering was a small enough for them to design a simple pilot to test out the technology and learn how they might use it in their annual nonprofit day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. The Entertainment Industry Foundation launched this project with Ashton Kutcher , Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Katie Couric (and many others) in a campaign designed to encourage Americans to consider volunteering as an integral part of our national identity. iParticipate Follow the stars.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

NetSquared has teamed up with Microsoft to host this challenge to create a mobile solution designed to meet the needs of people in developing countries and contribute to any of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. It will be held in San Jose, California from May 26-27.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. Youth Services. Employee Engagement.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. " The CTA is also working in partnership with the Frugal Innovation Lab at Santa Clara University to design, test, and market a text messaging service for the homeless.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2010

They summed up the qualities of great design into 10 Commandments - these commandments aren’t written in stone however but when designing your web presence thou shalt: 1. Design to the User – they are always right Don't focus on your needs as an organization. What is your focus? What functions are secondary?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

" During dinner, I heard another term "Con Camp," which I think meant something about interaction design for physical spaces. So, I went online to piece together snippets that I heard at dinner about Symposium with blog posts. Probably not quite as good as being there. So, here's a few video clips.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Curators acquire and display contemporary objects via "a new strand to the V&A museum's collections policy, which can respond very quickly to events relevant to design and technology." "Now" comes off as disingenuous and irrelevant if done wrong.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

Are community-driven design techniques viable for all kinds of exhibitions (and institutions)? I don't think I always made the right choices about how to respect, support, and foster the creative abilities of our community designers. Did we breathe life into their aspirations? Later this week, a post-mortem on the summit.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

The San Jose Museum of Art has drastically changed its approach to security, replacing guards with visitor services staff who provide interpretation and monitor visitor actions in a less threatening manner. Some are simple design choices—like at the MFA. But many are about personnel.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The meat is people coming together to design exhibits. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). And so I guess the point is this: there can be a fine line between success and not-success in these experiments, and that line is often driven by luck or circumstance, not design. Not all viruses go viral.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. South Carolina’s Nonprofit Summit is the state’s largest and most comprehensive conference designed specifically by and for leaders in the nonprofit sector. Leadership.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 26, 2017

It involved four domestic violence service providers near San Jose, California. One was able to usually provide the meeting space, one was able to have their website design person give us some hours, one was able to have all of the printing done for marketing materials. First came a feasibility study (VERY IMPORTANT!),

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. Design for Participation Is there any better ingredient for a successful conference session than a banjo? I talked about using the design question: "How can visitors make this project better?"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

This question has bubbled to the surface both because of some of your comments (advocating for the personal, contemplative museum experience) and the words of Cynthia Sharpe, an exhibit designer who has brought the message "It's not about you" powerfully to the table here at ASTC.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. How can we design this project to give value to participants throughout the process? What are the questions in your mind about team exhibit design?

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