Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. Then, once nonprofits recovered their wits and resumed asking, fundraising initially rebounded big time. Eroding Trust The loss of trust is now a global problem. And it’s one of the biggest problems nonprofits face.

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Trend Storytelling Paypal Mail 59

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

This foundational knowledge may at times feel simple, but it’s best to make sure you have a rock solid understanding of nonprofit consulting practices before entering into conversations with potential partners. For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model.

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Consultant Web Proposal Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Do the Homework : Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal. Trust-based philanthropy moves the onus to grantmakers, making it the funder’s responsibility to get to know prospective grantees, saving nonprofits time in the early stages of the vetting process. It’s based in fear.

Philanthropy 74

Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 74

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. I hope that it spurs the submission of many exciting proposals from NGOs focused on delivering secondary education programs.

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Education Philanthropy Africa Foundation 164

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. At Google, we believe that AI can give us new ways of addressing problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives.

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Fast forward to today….

Knowledge 69

Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 69

Forj

JUNE 1, 2021

Understanding somebody’s situation really lends credence to your ability to helping them solve their problems,” said Conley. Likely, this technology won’t be forgotten any time soon. They essentially build a business case and give great options that fit each association. We’ve walked a mile in their shoes.

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eLearning Summary Podcast Management 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. We have a model for this kind of change: TTYs (text telephones) and relay services though the telephone. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. The FCC should embrace a more Web 2.0

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Many nonprofits, particularly smaller organizations, say their biggest challenge to using social media effectively is that they don’t have the time or staff. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. We spent some time sorting out the logistics and formally kicked-off on Earth Day.”.

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Hunger Project Free Flash 114

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? It allows anyone to produce decent first drafts in a fraction of the time as before, regardless of the level of expertise. Fundwriter.ai

Los Angeles 130

Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

It might be time for a capital campaign. They’re major investments of your time and resources with potentially huge payoffs—an increased capacity to drive impact, strengthened relationships with donors and partners , and tons of valuable fundraising experience. Don’t underestimate the amount of time you’ll need.

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Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). The African Union Proposed Treaty (“AUPT”).

Accessibility 133

Accessibility Global Copyright Law 133

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Step #1) G – Get the FOA/RFP/NOFA The first step in developing a grant template with the GRANTS formula is to G et the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) or Request of Proposal (RFP) or NOFA (Notice of Funding Availability): i.e. the grant instructions.

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Grant Award Project Proposal 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

” This is when a group of organizations working on a similar practice have ongoing discussions and resource exchanges – or spend time together to gain new insights from their peers and apply what they’ve learned to their practice. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

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. My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. Some organizations put incredible thought and time and resources into trying to win this contest (there goes that $25K). Beth does a wonderful job.

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Contest Charity Childhood Nonprofit 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Community Foundations were thrown into crisis mode as the amount of time the server was down went from minutes into hours. Experiencing a cascading technology failure in real time for just one community is painful enough. But it was heart wrenching to watch , in real time, community after community experience this fiasco.

America 50

America San Antonio Local Philanthropy 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

At the same time, its assets have grown from $120 million to about $600 million, after giving away $500 million. “To This is the first time the foundation has asked for broad and direct public input in its grants process. We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said.

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Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. What have I learned over my time, but especially over the last year of doing this podcast? And maybe not take everything so seriously because life is serious and life is hard, but we should be having a good time.

People 76

People Community Video Podcast 76

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Have them prepare a list of contacts throughout these discussions that they should spend time reaching out to via telephone or, at times, in person, to acquaint themselves with these key people. It only takes an oversight or a small error to blow up into a problem that could have been avoided with some basic facts.

Mentoring 70

Mentoring Work Phoenix Nonprofit 70

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Throughout bbcon, we heard time and again from customers how they ’ re finding new ways to drive giving. Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. Define the problem and the “why”.

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Virtual Blackbaud Award Wisconsin 28

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

It's not a problem that suddenly snuck up on us. The problem of course is the collapse of the traditional business model of the newspaper. the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem."

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News Journal San Francisco Model 40

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. My main problem isn't necessarily about Chase. Some organizations put incredible thought and time and resources into trying to win this contest (there goes that $25K). Beth does a wonderful job.

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Contest Charity Childhood Nonprofit 100

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). What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork?

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

But before we got there, we talked abit about the problem. They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. They are going to look for innovation solutions.

Game 132

Game Education Change Classroom 132

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This problem is compounded by nonprofits’ lack of investment in manager training, leaving nonprofit organizations unprepared for the inevitable succession of leadership (Koenig, 2016). Organizations can start small, perhaps focusing on a few emerging leaders, and build structured leadership development systems over time.

Leadership 40

Leadership Develop Retention Phoenix 40

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

OK, these are hard problems to solve. We agreed that getting representation from commercial organizations like Google and Amazon at our Global Health Data meetings could well provide useful insights into the problems we wrestle with.).

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Global Data Seattle Finland 52

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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Mobile North America Mali Cameroon 62

Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Some of the ideas that we’re experimenting with to find the right balance are: Dedicated meetings or days specifically for brainstorming and testing creative solutions to company challenges in a fixed time frame. Clarifying decision rights, e.g., who has the authority to greenlight an experiment or implement a proposed change?

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Hints Structure Proposal Challenge 85

Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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FAQ Language Model Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The cycles get closer together until the thinking while doing happen at the same time. Creative solutions to complex problems. The players conduct a site visit to understand the problem from the point of view of people who use the street everyday. Complex problem dealing with state street.

Education 50

Education Mobile Game Exercise 50

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

But before we got there, we talked a bit about the problem. They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. The truth is that other countries are passing us by.

Game 60

Game Education Change Classroom 60

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's a third way, a way modeled in huge tech companies trying to compete with young start-ups. There's more attention these days on the "from the top" model.

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Museum Place Model Project 31

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

t think at this time that SL wants to be a WOW. The response to Boyd's "On Being Virtual": Again, we have someone who has either not spent time in SL, or has had a bad experience and now wants to convince the world that SL has no value and no future. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before.

Environment 50

Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So how do we know what to track?

Report 79

Report Measure Impact Process 79

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In the last few years we’ve learned that the climate crisis is one of the most unifying challenges of our time, as extreme weather events have indiscriminately affected both rich and poor countries. The climate crisis is one of the most unifying challenges of our time and a key strategic issue for nonprofits and educational institutions.

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Action Pledge Europe Education 59