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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Darren Barefoot and Julie Szabo kindly offered to share this guest post to reflect on on the findings. Dr. Dietmar Kress puts his PhD in Sociology to work as Director of Actions and Volunteering at Greenpeace Germany. It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters. $81,627,487. 13,900,000. United Kingdom. 12,071,840. 6,780,000. 5,879,225. 4,160,200. 2,075,850.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog - Untitled Article

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. Wunderlich , based in Germany, is a cofounder of Leap by McKinsey, which helps large enterprises build new businesses. He is based in Copenhagen.

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How Digital Winners Set Direction, Learn, And Adapt

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fast Times is written by four authors, reflecting on their personal experiences leading dozens of top global digital companies across all sectors. Wunderlich , based in Germany, is a cofounder of Leap by McKinsey, which helps large enterprises build new businesses. He is based in Copenhagen.

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Privacy-First Marketing for Nonprofits

Media Cause

There are a few essential tools when auditing a website’s user privacy settings: #1 VPN Clients: You can visit the website from various countries to see if the cookie consent banner is updated to reflect the law of the land.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

This may reflect my bias towards doing, but I find that if you get people doing something a bit silly, they get out of normal patterns and hangups and are more willing to think broadly. I've seen this bear out in many kick-off meetings for projects, and that's why if you call me about a one-day workshop, I'll probably ask for two.

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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, the authors of The Networked Nonprofit that inspired this experiment, wrote an Assessment and Reflection Report on America’s Giving Challenge 2009. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use. Four bloggers wrote a post; one blogger used the banner. All are captured here ).