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How Do Other Organizations Control Administrative Costs?

Tech Soup

How are nonprofits coping with this issue? Here's how GrantStation can help: GrantStation membership provides your organization with access to our searchable grantmaker profiles, strategy tools, and proposal tutorials. It almost feels like administrative costs are to be avoided. Attempting to Combat the Overhead Myth.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs. Political Engagement and Activism. Additional Resources.

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Notes from Google Earth Outreach at Net Tuesday

Have Fun - Do Good

logging trucks navigating more than 30 blind curves where children walk to school past active landslide areas on the slopes alongside the creek that SJWC proposed to log (along the San Andreas Fault) over the proposed helicopter landing pads near homes and the daycare center along the currently pristine and beautiful creek to its headwaters.

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. They produce a model that shows the consequences of the proposed change. Game Simulation - Identified the skills (8 skills) and created a cast of characters - The game has a tutorial and exercise mode Very simple game. Not Sim Doorknocker.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. era websites. I expect it isn???t t always going to be a ???build

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

I kept this in the back of my head while dealing with tech issues from day-to-day and resolving the problems as they occurred. The first step was to create and present a proposal for the management team and get an approval. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). More from Stephanie McAuliffe's blog and SocialBrite.

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