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The Commons Introduces Grassroots Mobile Survey

Saleforce Nonprofit

While the image of a volunteer holding a clipboard may spring to mind, we all know that it’s an inefficient method for collecting and processing data. Through the discovery process, we discussed how some staff members had to go to remote villages that were a month’s walk through the mountains to conduct interviews.

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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. We both started in tech in San Francisco. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Turns amateur status into an advantage.

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. If you recall, Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco made a wish come true for Miles Scott, a young boy with Leukemia.

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The Lessons From 10 Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. We both started in tech in San Francisco. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Turns amateur status into an advantage.

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The Revealing And Inspirational Journeys Of 10 Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. We both started in tech in San Francisco. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. The Visionary : Strategic, prophetic. Turns amateur status into an advantage.

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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

Think of the words "overhead" and "nonprofits" and what comes to mind? Ghaffari laid out a hypothetical situation: Imagine a homeless shelter funded through two contracts, one from HUD and the other from the City of San Francisco. If so, you've fallen victim to the overhead myth. For example, Ms.