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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Today is Giving Tuesday , the "opening day" for philanthropic holiday giving, like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are to holiday shopping. The Wall Street Journal reported on November 2nd that a Relief Fund was created for Staten Island and New Jersey through the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. Here are a few areas discussed I was challenged by: Challenge #1: At The Lumpkin Family Foundation , we developed our first comprehensive evaluation plan last year. I found out that we were not alone when NO ONE in the room stood up when we were asked if our foundation uses every bit of data collected.

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JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Those are some kids from the Sharing Foundation's Roteang Orphanage, opened in 2000.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roadsidepictures. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we highlight the work of the Sunlight Foundation and its executive director, Ellen Miller. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The Packard Foundation, true to the nature of its brave and innovative Learning in Public experiment, generously shared with us some of the lessons it learned by opening up the measurement and evaluation effort of its Organizational Effectiveness program to…well… the public. Who is your audience?

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JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. Fundraising advisors encourage this support too. Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Flickr: hellojenuine Member Appreciation Month, or MAM, as we affectionately refer to it around NTEN HQ, got off to a strong start last week with some great free for Members events, lots of #NTENThanks sharing, and of course, prizes! Making the Case for Going Open Data. for the most tweets #NTENThanks: Jereme Bivens, Foundation Center.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Flickr: Dinner Series If summer vacation has you feeling a bit out of the loop, this week's Member Round Up is ripe with opportunities to re-connect with the community and, if you're feeling lucky, take a gamble with your great, innovative ideas. NTEN Member Knight Foundation announced their latest Knight News Challenge: mobile.

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MAY 10, 2011

Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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JULY 23, 2012

I am firm believer that social media will be the foundation of the Mobile Web and the book was written to help prepare nonprofits for the coming shift from desktop and social to social and mobile. Since the open rate for text messaging is so high, each and every one of your messages should be well thought out and interesting.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Flickr photo by Beth. I took the above photo with my camera phone and uploaded to flickr. So, I twittered about it as part of the demo and asked my network to leave some comments on the flickr photo. Within in about 5-10 minutes, we had over 100 comments (plus lots of annotations on the photo using the notes feature on Flickr).

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. We got a range of responses from nonprofits, foundations, and even some colleagues of board members.

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JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits. If you think about what a foundation has to offer, money for sure, we're also good at convening people. The John D. and Catherine T.

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MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. It involves creating a forum where wide and varied stakeholders can share and learn together in an open, transparent way. At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie Alvarez-Rodriguez Source: Flickr, Goodwill SF. Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation ‘s 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit ) where I’ll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. Help out with a study! Get the full report here.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Flickr: Scott Beale Biking to work last week was like riding through that town in the Andromeda Strain: t here were no other commuters, no car exhaust to cough on while waiting at lights. For better or worse, it was not a zombie apocolypse, but rather a quiet holiday week.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Michaela Hackner and an amazing team from ForumOne worked to create a mashup tool for the Sunlight Foundation 's Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest. Voting's open till Monday! Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Sometimes it's WHO you know ;). You should try out their handy DataMasher and, if you like it, vote for it in the contest.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

One question was raised, and I want to share my response as it is something I’ve been asked by foundations and philanthropists before: what are the biggest mistakes funders can make when supporting tech innovation? Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. I have three key myths to highlight: “Money is Gold&#.

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JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. ” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Tracking for Impact and Learning.

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MARCH 16, 2012

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. We could empty the coffers of all the foundations in the United States but still couldn’t offset the cuts from the federal government alone. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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JANUARY 14, 2008

Cambodia4kids Flickr Photos. I launched a bloggers campaign and Twitter Wall of Fame as part of the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge. (To To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to all my networks. Sharing Foundation's Roteang Orphanage. I meet Candace N.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Examples of Great Nonprofit Facebook Pages : Lance Armstrong Foundation. Prostate Cancer Foundation – Athletes for a Cure. Participate and be a community like the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. If you're a veterans organization: Credit to Flickr user: Official U.S.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Privacy , security , and liability came up more frequently than in other sessions I’ve done which is not surprising that this group represented board members and CEOs of nonprofits and foundations. And, they’re issues not to be taken lightly. The last chapter of the Networked Nonprofit is on networked governance.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector. and James L.

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APRIL 3, 2013

SkyDrive, and you can open and edit these from any of your Microsoft. PowerPoint, you can find and add photos from albums on Flickr, Facebook, and other online services without saving to your computer. With Office 2013, Microsoft has made it possible to store and sync. All you need to do is save documents to your. For example in.

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JULY 15, 2010

The conference is held every two years, and is always an eye-opening and innovative event. Follow the conference on Twitter and on Flickr. The Kaiser Family Foundation offers a nice embeddable widget that will feed their daily news and live video coverage of the event. Share your own events/news through them for extended reach.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. 6: Ask clarifying, open-ended questions when the other person pauses. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. With DICK’s Sporting Goods Foundation matching grants, $4.6 ” A rocket took Armstrong to the moon.

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MARCH 1, 2009

I had a great time yesterday at Transparency Camp '09 in DC - kudos to Peter Corbett , and Gabriela Schneider and Clay Johnson and others at Sunlight Foundation , as well as others for catalyzing it. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC.

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JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr: daveiam I've got lots of goods this week, so without further ado, let's get to the members-online round-up: Beth Kanter raffled off a complimentary NTEN membership, courtesy of thePort. Let's all welcome the Surfrider Foundation as a new organizational member!

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. local time). It isn't entertainment.

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JANUARY 29, 2008

The luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo , a new york city based activist, organizer, blogger, barcamper and coworker. I was a donor to his campaign and he has contributed to the America's Giving Challenge (and let encouraged his network to support the Sharing Foundation). Photo by Noneck.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Jumo has been raising $2 million in funding from individuals and foundations. Chris Hughes.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Flickr Commons Project: Smithsonian Institution I've been neglecting my Member News roundups, but it's not because I don't care -- it's a combination of you guys all being super active and NTEN being consumed by NTC prep. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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