ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

I love the idea of "collective impact." We spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the impact of individual organizations, but how does that translate to the bigger picture? How might things be different if we start thinking about our collective impact? Laurie Mook join us to discuss social accounting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

Additionally, Salesforce provides specific volunteering opportunities that align with its citizen philanthropy and strategic programs to maximize impact in the local communities. . Simbi’s virtual reading platform enables global literacy through the power of narration, creation, translation, and donation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! Jim Fruchterman President and CEO, Benetech.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. “I believe Cause Camp is going to be incredibly impactful this year. Julia Campbell is on a mission to make the digital world a better place.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

We were shocked when we saw the 25 winners of the big $100,000 to $500,000 Google Impact Challenge Awards. Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is also developing a scalable model and toolkit for other communities to do the same work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best. The broadcasts air weekly and deliver multilingual lessons on literacy, numeracy, and STEM. Technology That Maximizes Donor Impact. Profound Change Starts With Local Partners.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. I believe in the power of books to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Here are a few things are becoming more clear to me as I talk with my colleagues here at GEO: (1) We will always want to support the efforts of our grantees to build stronger boards, better fiscal discipline, more visionary leadership, systems that scale, and better ways to measure and demonstrate impact. None of that will go away.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Knowing that they would not be able to create long-term impact alone, the MLK Scholars Program was born. Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Interfaith literacy events and interesting learning opportunities. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it? Have story?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. You know, impact is always good for year end. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? What is impact? So we have several different topics today and the four.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Financial literacy is an area where “fake until you make it” doesn’t apply. I’m guessing you were drawn to your current role because of the mission and impact, not the business model or financial challenges. . I signed on to further a cause, not to be the accountant!

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2016

Modeling what already exists—in this case nature—is understandably a favorable strategy because, in most cases, it works. Brand Affinity “represents a mindset and an approach to brand management in which the focus is on shared social impact, rather than on individual internal organizational goals.”

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In addition to journalism training, the women attend literacy and computer skills classes and are ultimately employed as by GPI where their experience and relationships enable them to report from the perspective of community members on the social injustice and other issues that impact them.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You can learn more about the m and how they use technology to further their missions on TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map (LIM). Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Canada is working towards providing every child in Canada who is in need of a mentor with an adult role model and friend. million books per year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

One CVA who organizes volunteers in the Dallas metro area lamented the impacts of COVID-19 on their operations. You know, with the Better Impact system, you fill out a profile on our website as a link, and then you move through the system. But now we are limping along.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2016

Telling the stories of the people who benefit from your organization can be a really effective way to share your impact. The secret to telling these stories, at least for newsletters, is to keep them brief and show images of the real people impacted by your organization. How it impacted the person ("changed his life").

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Matthew Mahan , vice president of impact at Causes. Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. not organized or centralized by specific non-profit organizations) model be sustainable and/or enough to affect real change in the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The Cause: Room To Read a not-for-profit organization that transforms the lives of millions of children by focusing on literacy. My criticism below is intended to help such efforts have more impact on the charities. . But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g. x (Total Retweets).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. Many said they had both experiences. 17% of adult mobile users have distracted by their device and bumped into people.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

By following best practices like repurposing compelling content, focusing on progress and impact, and creating new connections, you can build a newsletter that your nonprofit’s supporters will look forward to. To make it even more impactful, you would frame your progress in a way that shows how donations have helped.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I said, "You write it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For a fun twist, nonprofits can design some of the trivia around their own causes and values, reiterating their impact on supporters. You can either use a pay-to-enter model or turn it into a bit more of a gamble, where participants get a basket of eggs that may or may not contain a valuable prize.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

And so, I was interested, and I started working and learning about organic farming and how different it was than other kinds of large scale agriculture that impacted the environment and also that wasn't a good livelihood for the people working there. So [that] kind of kept me energized. So I can feel things changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

Building on this concept, Beth asked nonprofit leaders to enter the contest by explaining what their organization’s singular, most important activity would be in 2011 that would at-once drive social impact, engage supporters and increase revenues. Now that’s social impact! This has completely impacted the operations of our day-to-day.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. New Venture Fund. This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. New Venture Fund. This foundation supports smaller, grassroots organizations in the New York region that work to improve the lives of girls and women. Vermont Women’s Fund.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

And the people who have the biggest impact on that identity are the board of directors. Mentors are a powerful tool because they can model the behavior you are seeking to promote. Decision-making is increasingly complex and impactful. Could your brand use a Big Gulp of buzz? Associations are defined by their members. leadership.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Center People Directly Impacted by Poverty. Implement Grantmaking Approaches That Democratize Power.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. Literacy, human rights and the environment are critically important to the future of humanity.

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