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Creating Public Transparency: Bringing GuideStar to Israel

NTEN

In early August, NPTech launched Guidestar Israel. It took almost five years to make GuideStar Israel a reality, and it is an incredible resource for Israeli nonprofit organizations. NPTech (established by JDC-Israel and Yad Hanadiv ) is the operating organization behind GuideStar Israel. What is GuideStar Israel? .

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

This isn’t to underplay Christmas’s role but to include the other moments of the fall and winter calendar which are culturally significant to minorities within our potential donor pool. million members of the Jewish community in the US with millions more connected back to Israel and other parts of the world. There are 7.5

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

Secondly and thirdly, we also require Kirznerian and Schumpeterian theory to conceptualize social entrepreneurship as a function or process above all else that produces observable, systemic effects (i.e., Social entrepreneurship is a demand-side process of responding to social needs that leads to large-scale social change. Shockley, Ph.D.,

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Objective : Implement an emergency notification system for all the University campus community. Cool Factor : Campus Alert System. Across the country, universities and colleges are implementing emergency alert systems through mobile and email technology to prevent another Virginia Tech tragedy. Emergency Preparedness.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

So, we want for Laney College and the Peralta Community College system to be aligned with the job opportunities of the future, so the Green Jobs Corps represents that commitment on the part of the local community colleges. When you go to Palestine or you go to Israel or wherever, you can't say, "Well that's George Bush."

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