Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization. Choose a strategic planning model based on your nonprofit’s current circumstances, opportunities, and threats. It’s best to use this model when your organization’s external surroundings are generally calm.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . Establish initial governing documents and policies. . You’ll need to create Bylaws and Conflict of Interest documents and policies because both are needed for your IRS application. . Retain or consult with an accountant for annual audit and government filings, including the form 990.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. He holds a master’s in neuroscience and a master’s in public policy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

He explains that: Company culture is the system of beliefs, values, goals, behaviors, and the way employees feel working in the organization—from leadership style, decision-making norms, customer experience, and company policies—officially and unofficially. Strive to be a role model for the culture you want to create.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Terri has over 30 years of success in higher education, politics, international affairs, and nonprofits, including roles as Provost at Menlo College, Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin, and positions on numerous boards.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Declining enrollment leads to not only decreased tuition revenue but also diminished government funding and reduced philanthropic support. Some government funding hinges on full-time enrollment numbers, and fewer full-time students means less subsidy. provides federal incentives and policy support to encourage workforce development.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? to information exchange.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Step One: Understanding Your Use Case’s Purpose and Threat Model. Appropriate data retention policies should be implemented, including considerations for the rapid decay of the physical security situation. The first step is to clearly understand why the system, application, or data collection ought to exist in the first place.

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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. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. 10 years in this role leading large teams in the four main areas of accounting, investments, donor development, and revenue cycle.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French early nineteenth century political thinker and scholar known for his book Democracy in America , often pondered questions of societal well-being, or social policy. Social service and nonprofit programs have traditionally been supported through philanthropy and government contracts.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. This is not a trick at all and you all are really in for a treat.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

Steps You Should Take To ensure general compliance with the GDPR, follow these best practices: Actively update your website’s privacy policy and notify your email contacts whenever changes are made. Work with a nonprofit technology consultant if needed to conduct an assessment of your current data policies and protections.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

I’m guessing you were drawn to your current role because of the mission and impact, not the business model or financial challenges. . Income types that are unique to nonprofits include grants, donations, endowment funds, and government funding. . Make sure employees are familiar with this person and their role. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” And Karen’s role is Director of Education and Outreach at Tech Impact. So, the question here is, “What is your role in your organization?” So, we’ve got a majority here who are in a formal leadership role in your organization. Jeanne Bell: All right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What’s our role? If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? Instead of asking what’s our role, let’s look at what the opportunity is. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. Have people heard of 350.org

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Your organization needs to think holistically. If you don’t have a developmental model, you won’t know where to start or how to prioritize your time. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model. T This board is also using social media as part of its governance role.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. " Alec Ross, Senior Adviser to US Secretary of State, speaking on Open Governance. disaster).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2013

On top of that, I’ve seen security models that cross the spectrum. Most databases have security roles or groups that govern security. But, customers I speak with often have deviated from their standard security model to limit security for one particular user. Which brings me to theme #2….

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Recommendations for Implementation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

"Organizations will pay significant consequences if they don't work openly, honestly and proactively with government and society. Authors John Browne, Robin Nuttall and Tommy Stadlen kindly answer these questions about their book: Question: What is the role of business in society? Another example is the music streaming service Spotify.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

The program can be broken down into two different tracks: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). For more information on the role of education and performance improvement, read our blog post on How Medicare Payment Changes will Drive Performance Improvement.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2021

Technology has an important role to play in solving the world’s biggest issues, but for trafficking in particular, technology is a foundational piece to solving the problem — for everything from tracking offenders to supporting the survivors who are critical to developing a more victim-centered solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

According to research by NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, 80% of nonprofits don’t have a policy to address cyberattacks. A good place to start building a policy (if you don’t already have one) is to assess your organization’s risk with our checklist. Involve your staff in the policy-writing process. Welcome to the team!

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2024

An organization-wide use policy and associated training can help educate employees on some of the risks and pitfalls of the technology and provide rules and recommendations for how to responsibly use AI in their daily work. Forum One is approaching AI through research, planning, and side-by-side client work.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

The focus of the role is defining and enabling excellence across delivery at Cloud for Good. The role provides support and mentorship to the Program/Project Managers in their roles of Engagement Management and Program/Project Management across all of the delivery models and services lines at Cloud For Good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is not to say that social entrepreneurs don’t work in the policy and advocacy space. The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. The first was the ebook.

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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. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Jan 13 - 15.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking a director of Last Mile Training (LMT) to develop and deliver Salesforce training programs for several different roles. . Successful candidates must have experience working in the Salesforce ecosystem across a variety of clouds, roles and functionalities. . In addition, candidates should have: .

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this role, the Sales Representative will be working with our clients to develop the best short-term and long-term staffing solutions to fit their current and future needs. Cloud for Good complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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