ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Educating the Board of Directors and Reviewing Internal Policies (internal): By reviewing internal policies to make sure they are up-to-date with societal trends, the organization can be sure they accurately reflect their work in the current landscape of social issues. Retrieved February 12, 2017, from [link].

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 27, 2008

I had the chance to meet with Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa last month, and tell him about Bookshare.org for ten minutes. The biggest issue I'm still working on is one I mentioned two years ago: getting access to the textbooks in the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

More government grants are looking for collaborations among multiple organizations that are able to address an issue from different angles. She uses information from the University of Iowa College of Public Health's Rural Policy Research Institute. Almost every federal agency has a rural grant program.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The committee can help maximize the effectiveness of each individual board member and address issues of disengagement or dysfunction head on. Challenge the Board to Manage Itself: Build a strong governance committee that takes responsibility for managing and cultivating board performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Unthinkable things aren’t talked about, it’s just too scary or radical to question issues and subjects that have become sacrosanct. Unapproachable, off limits issues can’t be changed because we refuse to talk about it. As Clay Shirky wrote , “When reality is labeled unthinkable, it creates a kind of sickness in an industry.”

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And on the issue of whether foundations will actually accept input from crowds, I think there are areas where the input is needed, and can be highly constructive, making adoption non-controversial. Predictive Markets: The Iowa Electronic Markets uses an online wagering model to accurately predict political elections.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The state library systems of Hawaii and Iowa even took advantage of this opportunity to provide access to Candid resources at every public library in the state. As a result, many library systems have been able to expand their Candid community locations beyond a single branch to all sites across their systems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Your way may be starting an organic catering company, or painting about issues that are important to you, or getting out on the streets and protesting, or maybe working with policy; there are all kinds of different work. I think I can speak to that right now, because I'm speaking to you from Iowa City. I just moved from the Bay Area.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The Iowa Women’s Foundation. NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Areas served: Iowa. The Hadassah Foundation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Iowa Women’s Foundation. NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Areas served: Iowa. The Hadassah Foundation.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. RootsCamp is an annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together. Iowa Nonprofit Summit.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Harvard lecturer and activist Marshall Ganz says people are rooted in their values and interests, rather than particular issues. Shared underlying values can be unifying, unlike issues, which can be divisive. What happens when the issue becomes, as Ganz put it, more divisive? Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

So we have probably eight different teams of people, either approving new groups or helping existing groups, or handling tech issues on the website. There's a study done in Iowa. It's just this huge volunteer network of people helping. That's our biggest challenge: just keeping that going and growing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2011

On Friday, New York joined the ranks of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. They came at the issue from all different directions with a throng of engaged constituents and used a unified, consistent message to achieve their desired outcome. Author: Jill Ward. in legalizing same-sex marriages.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

A core group of leaders who, in the organizing movement, happen to be predominantly white men (still) who are in positions of strong power, who are trying to excite a base of people for a period of time on a certain issue. Small group to large group, issue-based, short-term. I went to the University of Iowa. Not so great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

And I spoke to a sergeant from Iowa who had lost one of his legs but was working vigorously to get accustomed to his prosthetic leg so he could return to Iraq as soon as he could. This is not and should not be a partisan issue. More specifically, we need to be very clear about key issues, such as bases and the level of troops in Iraq.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

We’re fiercely bipartisan because we believe that kids’ issues shouldn’t be a Republican or Democratic issue. And we brought our issues to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions last summer, engaging delegates and elected officials on our issues.

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