Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility. Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. Advisory Boards Need Structure.

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Roles Nonprofit Government Advice 111

Forum One

APRIL 27, 2021

The purpose of a content strategy is to map out the goals for your website and the content that will help achieve the messaging for each section. By mapping your business goals to your audience needs and seeing how your content can connect the two, you can craft an integrated, seamless experience for your audiences on your site.

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Content Strategy Map Audience 47

Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

Data governs almost every aspect of our individual lives and plays a significant role in our field. This is not an individual problem—the nature of philanthropy is structured so that foundations are able to work in silos with little accountability or competitive pressure to take joint action.

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Data Profile Grant Philanthropy 59

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

" World Bank’s Mapping for Results launched – Check out this deployment of the Ushahidi platform for digital storytelling and reporting: "This weekend at the World Bank annual meetings the World Bank launched their new Mapping for Results platform.

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Web Map Bookmarking Conversation 114

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! what things need to be measured. success stories.

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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

check with your local, regional, and national government for requirements and procedures for registering as a nonprofit organization. Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. Sports equipment?

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Nonprofit gMail Money Foundation 111

Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order. Open Government Data. Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data President Obama has signed an Executive Order to make government data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs. Nonprofit Data. Data Privacy.

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Data Open Map Law 40

Forum One

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At Forum One, we work with a great many nonprofits and government agencies that run their websites on Drupal. Each content migration method comes with pros and cons, and provides more or less opportunity to make changes to your site’s structure. Here are your three main options: A. Upgrade automatically with Migrate suite.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Consider whether your community has a wide range of potential giving sources willing to help out, including individual donors , corporate sponsors, foundations, and government agencies. Having a clear corporate structure limits the individual liability of your nonprofit’s leaders, employees, and board of directors.

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Nonprofit Files Policy Software 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. Two oft-cited examples are the Strive network in Cincinnati, and the ReAmp network in the Midwest.

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Forum One

APRIL 20, 2021

At Forum One, we work with a great many nonprofits and government agencies that run their websites on Drupal. Each content migration method comes with pros and cons and provides more or less an opportunity to make changes to your site’s structure. Here are your three main options: A. Upgrade automatically with Migrate suite.

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Drupal Module Model Method 56

sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

Over the course of my career in the government and nonprofit sectors, I experienced my fair share of burnout and overwhelm in the name of saving the world. Here are a few additional questions that be helpful as you map out your vision: How do our organization’s current mission, vision, and values connect to employee and grantee-well-being?

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Culture Consultant Calendar Team 72

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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Data New York Government Digital 91

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 10, 2016

So much, in fact, that organizations are boarding the train without a map, a travel bag, and even a destination. Collaboration is emerging as a popular vehicle to solve complicated problems that our communities face. Worse yet, they have not considered the repercussions of boarding the collaboration train. This is the “train” on the tracks.

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Collaboration Training Train Impact 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. Companies like MaxMind and IP2Location update their databases regularly so you don’t need to figure out the mapping of IPs. In fact, many government organizations are embracing open data and releasing their data sets to the general public via APIs. Location.

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API Social Media San Francisco Integration 84

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With interactive maps, private meeting scheduling, and a personalized agenda, attendees have everything they need to get more from the event. Easier interactions with the government. The federal government isn’t known for its quick response time, but the direct link from Grants.gov makes it easy to immediately apply for grants.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too!

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

By the late 17th Century, lawyers, doctors and government employees were toiling in offices built all across Europe. To boil it down, he presents two options: go back to the old, structured, nine to five factory-line style work schedule with commutes and lunchroom chatter and all that good stuff. Work-life balance.

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Place Associations History Work 287

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

There must be meaningful interplay between the map and the gamespace. When you are playing over a vast landscape (say, a 100,000 sq ft science center) with no rules governing sequence of travel, the map becomes an essential counterpart to gameplay. There are surprises in store.

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Museum Game Open Map 20

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map? Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". ” 13.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement.

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Design Social Media Remix Network 50

Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

By the late 17th Century, lawyers, doctors and government employees were toiling in offices built all across Europe. To boil it down, he presents two options: go back to the old, structured, nine to five factory-line style work schedule with commutes and lunchroom chatter and all that good stuff.

Place 156

Place Associations History Work 156

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

It offers us a “Map” of how each story affects people and communities. It maps out our plans, our design, our work, the response, our redesign, our work, the response and the overall progress to crossing the Chasm . This enables us to design how to use story effectively, and helps the broader work to be powerfully engaging.

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Story Action Model Adopt 79

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. Considering the twists that fundraising plans may have taken in 2023, it’s crucial to recalibrate for the upcoming year. For instance, let’s consider a total operating budget of $200,000.

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Develop Calendar Nonprofit Retention 72

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. I think Open Field would have been almost impossible without that map, but it was not a linear journey. The research turned out to be a seed we were planting.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Amy Webb, futurist, professor of strategic foresight at New York University and founder of the Future Today Institute, said, “If our current habits continue unchanged, it’s easiest to map pessimistic and catastrophic scenarios. People will be surrounded by more misleading or false information, not less.

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Life Digital Research Report 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking research, and you can tweet @AspenInstitute to join the conversation. When the U.S.

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Data Impact Government Files 105

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. For us, it was no different! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So there are some things like that that you might want to consider, especially if you’re maybe looking into government grants. Some of the funding is going to go to the state’s local government, so just to be mindful of all of those things, especially when you start thinking about what you can do in-house to prepare.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

in the City Portal category by the Center for Digital Government. The annual Best of the Web Awards recognizes city, county and state governments for their work to increase engagement among citizens while also providing them with cutting-edge web services. Achieve client, City of Tampa, Fla.,

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Award Tampa Websites Phase 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2020

I went back to my roots this week, mapping out how I felt and was reacting. Written by: Seema Rao All, for the end of the month, I asked you what you're learning. I thought I'd share first, a bit of how I'm learning about myself. let’s figure out the new normal together.

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Museum Phase Exercise Storytelling 47

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For the past 11 annual rankings, Forum One has developed responsive, increasingly sophisticated data visualizations and maps that let users explore and compare detailed public health information across more than 65 health factors and outcomes for more than 3,000 counties. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The field is evolving at a rapid pace, creating a lot of opportunity for creativity in structuring the market. From governments working with nonprofits, to corporations working with social entrepreneurs, industries are coming together to push the field forward. How can the sector find out about projects in need of funding?

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Impact Zambia Structure Aggregator 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96