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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. government agencies ii. Before this time, government grants collection had been limited to a few agencies like the National Science Foundation and Department of Education. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

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? The answer by GSA staffer, was ?No

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. Related Links: Social and Mobile Media Webinars for Nonprofits and Government. Humane Society of the United States :: @ HumaneSociety. Junior Achievement :: @ JA_USA. Maplight :: @ MapLight. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP.

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Tammi Marcoullier, Lead Strategist at the GSA’s Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider.

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Things We Like (August 2014)

NTEN

Three teens have created a police accountability app with tons of features as their awesome contribution to bringing We the People and government together. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. Read more posts on our blog.

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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

ASU Lodestar Center

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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Means and Ends: Who does What

BoardAssist

Luckily for us, governance consultant Tom Okarma has written a terrific guest post for us this week on exactly this topic. John Carver has written extensively on board governance and discusses “means and ends ” as a way to differentiate between what board responsibilities and CEO responsibilities. governance'

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