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How Investing In Ongoing Nonprofit Professional Development Keeps Fundraisers On The Ball And Ahead Of The Game

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British children’s rights nonprofit AfriKids sent two of its staff members to a recent International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. A nonprofit professional’s idea impacts fundraisers on a nationwide level. . A nonprofit raises more than five times its original goal. . It was not even recognized as a career.”.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

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This guest post was written by Geert-Jan Davelaar and Anna Tiedink, educators at the Zuiderzee Open Air Museum in the Netherlands, the museum that "adopted" the INNL's National Vending Machine project after INNL's closure. We’d like to share some thoughts and ideas in this guest post. It was solid: in the 1.5

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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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a national competition in which 8,000 people submitted photographs to represent the iconic image of the Netherlands. Freedomtrain - an exhibition about the history of liberation in 20th century Netherlands that was housed entirely inside a train that traveled the country throughout the spring of 2010.

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What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project?

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Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. These tags would be added to the books in the catalog to build a kind of recommendation system. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online.

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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

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I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Patrons don’t have to opt in to some complicated system, log on to the Web after returning books, or add anything to their standard library use. Ideas design. Sounds complicated?

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Joitske Hulsebosch: Blogs, NGOs, and Developing Countries

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Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. You work, you travel for work, you???re

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Highlights + Takeaways from the Dreamforce ‘22 Nonprofit Keynote

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One of the most prevailing themes of the Nonprofit Keynote was the idea of Stakeholder 360. Simply put, Stakeholder 360 is the idea of consolidating all of the disparate systems and sources used to capture stakeholder data into one clean, unified place. Here are some of my favorite highlights: . Stakeholder 360.

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