Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Before starting a nonprofit organization, you should understand that the 501(c)(3) designation is just that: a tax designation. It’s not a business model. . Here are the tactical steps you must take to starting a nonprofit. . Here are the tactical steps you must take to starting a nonprofit. . Why is that important?

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. The content relevant to them is served to them directly. Potential and growth of our tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Salesforce.org’s second annual Nonprofit Summit, held earlier this month, attracted over 6,500 attendees from 100 countries. Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. .

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

A nonprofit Advisory Board can be a great way to engage key supporters with relevant professional skills, life experiences, and networks. 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.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

Now think about your nonprofit organization. No one—not even our largest government and financial institutions are. But these companies have substantially more resources than what a typical nonprofit has. Their business models depend on this. Their business models depend on this. Transition.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

A few weeks ago, I attended a panel discussion on open government data. The event was presented by Twilio and Open 311 , one of the organizations leading the charge to make government data public, accessible, and usable. Tim O'Reilly painted a breathtaking picture of the future of government.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these words: Your nonprofit’s logo is not your story. If you Google “nonprofit logos,” you’ll see some common themes. Many nonprofit leaders really want to take every opportunity to help you understand that they are helping people. Risk of overcomplicating your nonprofit’s logo. It makes sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. The article caught fire – not only in nonprofit and philanthropy circles – but also business, government, and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . You could feel the energy in the room - a convergence of IT leadership from business, government, social innovation, and nonprofit sectors.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Governments in developing countries are thinking seriously about how to provide quality secondary education, noted Gallucci and Roy, yet less known are which interventions are economical and will increase demand, access, and retention. This is where philanthropy comes in. This is a hopeful time in the long arc of inclusive education.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity. At Benetech , we like to think of ourselves as part of Silicon Valley’s heart.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

A lack of standardized demographic data not only hinders our collective work to create a more equitable sector; it also requires nonprofits to take time away from their mission-driven work to respond to disparate requests by funders for this information. Watch the video clip “How do we work better with nonprofits?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

I’m constantly impressed with how the participants in the Salesforce.org Partner Network drive success for our nonprofit and education customers, and the Unite Partner Summit is no exception. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

The nonprofit sector was already moving this way—it was the thesis that Classy was founded upon—but 2020 changed everything. The lines are blurring between for-profit and nonprofit models like never before, and the strain of 2020 proved to us that the traditional CSR model is outdated and broken. . New Beginnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities?

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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. Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In 2017, I attended a small conference of government representatives, civil society leaders, and tech company volunteers from around the world. A few are even using machine learning models to identify previously undiscovered patterns and connections that can help target resources more effectively.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

When the Afghanistan government fell to the Taliban just days after the U.S. Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Government. Meanwhile, back in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

Note from Beth: In my recent book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit and leading workshops for nonprofits all over the world on this topic, I continue to be passionate about the need to build resilient and sustainable nonprofit leaders and organizations. Let’s face it: being a nonprofit leader is hard.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

Last year at Cause Camp, I laughed when speaker and fellow nonprofiteer Rachel Muir called herself a “recovering nonprofit executive director.” In my late 20s, after working for small and large companies and the government, I longed for a career with real purpose ? I laughed because that describes me to a tee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. The opening video sequence shows how AI will impact the everyday work flow of business professionals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. Managing Director, Nonprofit Group, Accenture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. First, funders love and expect to see fully explained “giant triangles of waste.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

posted by Alisa Partlan Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. As nonprofit professionals, we all want to impact the greatest possible number with our work. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. How much should the program expand?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

posted by Suzanne Durkin-Bighorn Spring 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Member based nonprofits and trade associations have been consistently losing ground in the volunteer sector and are challenged with remaining relevant and retaining members. Overhaul the governance model and committee operations.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2010

Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them. Government as usual is changing fast, because it needs to. I was impressed when I heard Tim O'Reilly recommending to all tech folks last year that they Work on Stuff that Matters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

posted by Patrick McWhortor Arizona Campaign Director Open Primaries. In April, I left the helm of the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits, after ten years of building it into a force for strength and progress in serving the state’s nonprofit community. And there was much talk about nonprofits running themselves more like businesses.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. Fast forward to today….

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Not just to quietly listen, but participate in the discussion about applying a networked lens to nonprofit governance. (If you want to better understand what the term network mindset and what it has to do with nonprofit leadership, check out their recent paper on the topic.). And, what would it look like?”.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

million nonprofit board seats that open up in the US every year? Four Great Reasons to Join a Nonprofit Board. Most of our candidates feel as we do: there is no better return on your nonprofit time investment than through board service. So what rewards and opportunities can you expect from joining a nonprofit board?

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