ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. However, along the way we learned several lessons that proved integral to maintaining an effective—and accountable—board. Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Across industries, organizations have been investing heavily to integrate analytics throughout every aspect of their company to capture a portion of the $9.5 This level of commitment starts at the top but also needs to be rooted in the organization’s structure. . trillion to $15.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. . different demographics). .

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness. Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains. Like this article? Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Proponents of nonprofit impact investing cite that seven out of ten high-net-worth Americans have more faith in the private sector than the nonprofit or government sectors due to its utilization of social impact investing. This type of investment is increasing among women, Gen-Xers, and Millennials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. While Marnie didn’t say this, sounds like a silo issue or maybe just a matter of one database not integrating with another? The governance issue is very interesting. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Given the integral connection between financial and organizational success, I wanted to dig deeper into the nonprofit CFO role. The Builder constructs a: Sustainable financial structure that meets mission needs, goals, and aspirations over time. The returns on these mission investments are measurable over time.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2018

And there is more structure to ease any cultural or tactical friction that might arise between the departments. Unique staffing models are emerging. Leadership decisions for rules governing the intersectionality of mid-level are now common. Unique Staffing Models. How are nonprofits closing the gap? Engaged Leadership.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. And rightly so. Data carry enormous potential.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

A complex, integrated constituent management platform usually handles constituent data, constituent relationships and core transactional processing, including revenue processing. This is a prudent collaboration since a viable deal structure requires all three to remain ‘whole’ for the lifetime of a purchasing arrangement. Highlights.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Few tech platforms have both a successful business model and investor agreements that allow them to shift power directly to their community. At Open Collective, we use technology to bend legal structures and entities to fit the needs of communities all over the world. Is the business model that we have developed replicable?

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

However, if your main goal is to make money and you have a successful revenue model, you would be wise to consider starting a for-profit. Bylaws are the main governing document of your nonprofit and will act as a guide and decision-making tool for the board of directors. How can I tell if my nonprofit will succeed? Create your bylaws.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2016

As a nonprofit organization grows to include dozens, sometimes hundreds, of local offices, the leaders have to wrestle with the best way to govern, organize and manage greater complexity. While there is little consensus on a “single best practice”, three distinct models have emerged and are recognizable as the most prevalent.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. The Data Warehouse Architect will serve as the technical lead for implementation projects. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment. .

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong When: Friday, March 13th from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Room A Description: Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2017

When the federal government changed the rules for grant management at the end of 2013, there was a little noticed change that occurred. Here are 7 practices for building an internal control structure that will increase buy-in and stand the test of time. Strive for integrity and transparency. ” –Baltasar Gracian.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 24, 2022

Act as a role model for Cloud for Good’s culture and values? experience in Marketing Cloud implementations or services engagements in a consultative model? Advanced time management skills to work in an environment without direct supervision or structure? Serve as an expert in Cloud for Good methodology and business process?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Your Future Operational Model? Most importantly, you are looking for a system architecture that allows some partners to work completely privately, some collaboratively, and some fully integrated--and these options need to be concurrently deployable. Click here to download full White Paper. User Flexible or Provider Flexible?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

This is the first in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. It's an atypical book about organizational innovation for two reasons: It focuses on non-profits and government agencies instead of for-profit companies.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

His extensive work on effective leadership and organizational success offers valuable lessons for structuring boards that not only meet but surpass organizational goals. So, leadership must model the values and behaviors they’d like to see throughout the organization, setting a standard that promotes a positive and productive culture. “If

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. Who could you engage with?

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. This is not a model policy, all right? If you want to just go through a disciplined process of reviewing your policies, or if you need some structure for this, here it is. This is an example policy.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. For example, in France, the government plays a much bigger role in education and healthcare.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2018

October 11, 2018; Government Technology. As a quasi-public entity, its governance structure and composition are different from traditional nonprofits, as is demonstrated by Maine’s governor’s role in appointing 10 of its voting directors. “ The Mill ,” Ron Cohen. Derrick Rhayn.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2013

These dramatic changes in the marketplace have broad implications for organizational governance and for the viability of the conventional nonprofit business model. I expect that many single program-focused agencies no longer will be viable; some will dissolve; others will merge into larger integrated organizations. Get another!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

So the more that we can create institutions and structures and organizations that do just that. And so I started to focus on corporate actors, and through a series of events and working at different organizaitions I was approached by RAN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Therefore it is very useful to show a logical path of results or describe in a logic model. Last Thursday, reported widely in the news, the Supreme Court left standing the basic provisions of the health care overhaul, ruling that the government may use its taxation powers to push people to buy health insurance.

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