Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Philanthropy plays a role beyond what governments could do—allowing for the testing of innovative models that are responsive to local cultural contexts—and then looks to government for scaling up successful efforts. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. A whopping 48% of Americans don’t trust nonprofits Interestingly, people trust local organizations far more than large institutions. Your emotional case for support drives all donor communications, from grant proposals to web copy to fundraising appeals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

This is part two of Carolyn Owen''s series on gathering and using data for grant proposals. So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? As local as possible, relating to the community, city or state where your program is located. 501 Navigation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest. It is not always enough for an organization to write an amazing grant proposal. Stacey Romanotto received a B.S. in Finance from ASU’s W.P.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The software’s diagram component, results chains, conceptual models and threat ratings allowed her to carefully analyze the impact of wildfires on sedimentation and water quality in these areas. Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. Write a description of the proposed Advisory Board’s purpose.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The first step—which we’ll cover in this article—is to identify your digital volunteers who might be interested in volunteering offline and quickly drive them into a local activity that will engage and excite them. One benefit of this model is that we start our campaign planning by bringing together key players from every relevant department.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

And if you don’t have a local group, we’ll help you start your own. Traverse City, MI: Discussion Panel - FCC’s Regulatory Proposals - Net Neutrality. San Francisco, CA: The EASE INITIATIVE business model and its leverage of social technologies. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of local members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

What Happened on Give Local America Day? Early on Give Local America Day , reports of slow page loads and server crashes started to trickle in from a couple of community foundations hosting Giving Days using the Kimbia platform. But it was heart wrenching to watch , in real time, community after community experience this fiasco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact. Resources: What is the network’s funding model? Governance: Who decides what the network will do, how do they decide?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Step One: Understanding Your Use Case’s Purpose and Threat Model. Organizations should critically review proposed data collection and ensure that the intended benefits and impact justify the risks of data collection in the first place. You can do this by going to Profile > System Preferences > disable “Export Reports”.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

The game combines elements of the Social Media Game, local real-world issues (at SHINE we used local regeneration topics), and the idea development and pitching of the Social Innovation Camp model. David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? The general public can view and comment on the proposed programs, maybe even make suggestions of partners.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. Ingrid: Bay Localize is a non-profit project that started back in December of 2005. And also by raising awareness about the concept of re-localizing to bring other people into the movement as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2010

Please look at the 1+1+1 model that Salesforce uses (and Google as well, I think) for a better corporate giving program. That a local organization is more deserving than a national one? The general public can view and comment on the proposed programs, maybe even make suggestions of partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. In that model advertisers pay publishers enough to support the news-gathering operation because advertising in a newspaper with decent reporting was the best way to get their copy in front of readers. This is not a business model that makes sense.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . A limiting factor, to scale up, will remain the local technical capacity to support and “own” these systems over time. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). These ideas inspired the SXSW panel proposal I submitted: Crowdsourcing for Innovative Social Change. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? It was organized by Ed Schipul. What is it?

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

To encourage investigation at the level of *system* rather than the isolated individual issues that get funders' attention, she proposes building a simplified conceptual model for health data that will help students, funders, and researchers--and the general public, too--gain greater insight into systemic data collection issues and solutions.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

For many, that involves a combination of income sources that, together, make up their funding model. A funding model is defined as the methodical and institutionalized approach to bring in revenue to support an organization’s core programs and initiatives. Government Grants. Federated Funds.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . But her business model is all about generosity, all about offering. It’s my modeling. Let’s think outside the box. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The proposal to Metlife was all video. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. I only know anecdotally.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. It could be offering a space in your museum for local meetups.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And we’re going to see what kind of shortfalls there are from a state and local perspective in the coming years because of COVID, but hoping that some of the other federal funds that we’re receiving through ARPA can try to help stop the bleeding a little bit. So logic model, this is my tried and true.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” And use the word “projected,” because we know that the service definitely impacted people in a positive way and we’re using local statistics to make sure that we’ve captured that impact. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? Does that make sense?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2016

As a nonprofit organization grows to include dozens, sometimes hundreds, of local offices, the leaders have to wrestle with the best way to govern, organize and manage greater complexity. While there is little consensus on a “single best practice”, three distinct models have emerged and are recognizable as the most prevalent.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The proposal to Metlife was all video. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. I only know anecdotally.

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