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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

One reason for Salt Lake City’s success was that its local United Way, a primary architect of the contract, served as the lead in collecting and analyzing data from service providers (Grossman and Lombard, 2015). If there is no lead, a nonprofit should be ready to add capacity or shift existing roles to compensate for new obligations.

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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

Their Service Grant Program makes grants of professional consulting services, delivered pro bono by a team of business professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to help nonprofits in the Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC metro areas. Charities register as well and become members.

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Research Friday: Government contracting part II: Adapting in an era of less

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing series, we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director.

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Why Tech Nonprofits Are Building Digital Tools for Racial Equity and Justice

Non Profit Quarterly

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Both nonprofits are using tech to help students of color gain access to educational resources, readying them for high-paying careers.

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Women of Color Leading Essential, Activist Work in Cultural Institutions

Museum 2.0

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. Since we're "telling the story of America through structures," how in the world do we tell this one?

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Need a New Year Recharge? Attend These Nonprofit Conferences in 2024

Allegiance Group

Attend If You’re: A marketing scholar, academic, or doctoral student To Register: [link] AFP DFW Philanthropy in Action Conference Dallas, TX June 6-7, 2024 This year’s Philanthropy in Action Conference is one-and-a-half days full of learning and networking. Get there early for the free 2024 Junior Scholar Workshop, happening June 4-6.