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3 Reasons to Love Outcomes Measurement

Tech Soup

As a corporate funder turned consultant, I've spent the last decade helping funders make the shift from philanthropy to social, or impact, investing. Central to this new solution that provides a unified experience for funders and nonprofits is its sector-sourced outcomes measurement taxonomy. What Is Impact Investing?

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Keynote by George McCully at NTC Boston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He presented the new/old paradigm for philanthropy for individual donors. He spoke about how the demographics of wealth has changed and fundraisers need to pay increasing attention to individual donors. They view philanthropy as is an extension of their investment stock. Philanthropy??? Most aren???t

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is the form of the Tweets as related to Bloom’s Taxonomy ? The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting?

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

As NonProfit Times reports , Causes.com, the Facebook-inspired campaign platform for advocacy and fundraising, will soon be no more. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Community colleges: A critical access point to higher education

Candid

Since 2008, private philanthropy in the U.S. Under Candid’s taxonomy , we track funds supporting “community college education,” which encompasses funding both to community colleges and to their foundations. has awarded over $3.5 billion in grants specifically for “community college education,” according to Candid data.