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Easter Seals Nebraska Moves People and Information with Microsoft MapPoint

Tech Soup

Seals Nebraska has helped individuals with disabilities and special needs. to help operate its new transportation service line, Nebraska Mobility, and the. transportation services throughout Nebraska, by planning smarter, more direct. Before launching Nebraska Mobility, there was a lot of unnecessary overlap.

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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Similarly, Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein, Executive Director of the Peter Kiewit Foundation, a private independent philanthropic trust in Omaha, Nebraska, says, “We place a high priority and value on building enduring relationships with our grantees. The Civity Networks Project—Taking Relationships Seriously.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now that social media has normalized , can contests like this be a level playing field where organizations with hundreds and thousands of fans and much larger budgets compete along side those smaller organizations? Nathaniel Whittemore pointed out some further problems with dubious strategies that as he says turns these contests into a farce.

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Building a Better Suggestion Box

Museum 2.0

Wedding registry-style signatures: "Dina and Arthur Feldman, Lincoln, Nebraska" Specific complaints: "The bathrooms were dirty." I just want the problem fixed so it doesn't happen to anyone else." The problem with the current state of things is that those comments rarely gets to the people who can actually use them.

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2021 Fundraising Ideas Designed To Help You Raise More This Year

Kindful

You can search grant databases to find an available matching donation, or approach your board, top donors, or local businesses to put one together. They blew past the goal amount without a problem! Take Walk the State from Parkinson’s Nebraska. Donors tend to give 50% more when a matching donation is in place.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

The paper investigates the effect of civic engagement indicators on economic indicators to explore if and where civic engagement strengthened local economies. Working with neighbors to address community problems. These states are Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Minnesota, and Vermont.