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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

Lean funders join with each other, community foundations, United Way, and others to meet a specific need for a few months, such as providing relief during Covid-19 or in the aftermath of a natural disaster. This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . 2) Offering Networking and Education .

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Vote for TechSoup's Sessions for the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference!

Tech Soup

Digital Storytelling Blender: Web, Video, Games, Events & Live! Mapping and Data Visualizations for Nonprofits. Disaster Planning: What Organizations Need to Know to Protect Their Tech. Content Curation Across Teams & Organizations. Livestreaming 101: Conversations, Events & Interactivity.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. From this frame and initial thinking (which was captured on www.crisiscommons.org ) a network of eager volunteers was ready to be mobilized after the earthquake hit.

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The Social Sector Cloud

NTEN

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. From this frame and initial thinking (which was captured on www.crisiscommons.org ) a network of eager volunteers was ready to be mobilized after the earthquake hit.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. But what’s the point?

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14 Nonprofit Books Recommended by Top Industry Experts

Classy

Rather than fearing the inevitable, this book will teach you how to feel, map, assess, and learn from the continual state of flux we experience everyday. Written as a business fable, this book identifies the insecurities and flaws that can spell disaster not only for the corporate world, but for all kinds of teams. Change is constant.

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