Charity Village

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The public has until November 30 to go to donations-contest.ia.ca The post Public voting now open for the iA Financial Group philanthropic contest appeared first on CharityVillage. Each charity has the chance to win a major donation of $100,000 to support a project that promotes the health and wellness of children under 18.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 24, 2022

But just as there is a difference between being nice and being kind, there is a difference between being easy and being accessible, between being open and being welcoming. Volunteer engagement leaders who focus on creating “open” volunteer opportunities often create what I refer to as “come-one-come-all” service opportunities.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2023

Starting today and through August 5, 2023, we are making the proposed changes available for public comment. We’re sincerely grateful to the organizations and individuals who have made such thoughtful recommendations to date, and we look forward to receiving broader feedback during this public comment period.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Registration is now open for PSPNET Families‘ newest course focused on spouses of current and former Public Safety Personnel (PSP). The post PSPNET Families offering Free Wellbeing Course for Spouses of Public Safety Personnel appeared first on CharityVillage. The eight-week course focuses on […].

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Maytree Policy School is an opportunity for nonprofit organizations to enhance their public policy engagement and effectiveness. Beginning in January 2023, the online program will support 20-25 policy leaders to enhance their skills and competencies and enhance their organization’s strategic engagement in the public policy process.

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Charity Village

JUNE 30, 2022

$25 million donation from the Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation will create a new, outdoor public art trail on the future Villiers Island in Toronto’s transformed Port Lands. The post $25-million gift to create new public art trail on Toronto’s waterfront appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honours the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Tony never had a chance to fulfill his computing dreams, so the prize was created to help others realize theirs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The Trust Barometer 2021 Global Report reports that businesses are now the only institution trusted by the public, not nonprofits. Reading Tory Martin’s ideas for rebuilding public trust through participation and transparency led me to explore how nonprofits can rebuild public trust through accountability to beneficiaries.

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Charity Village

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Eligibility Criteria Eligible Canadian employers are from the not-for-profit, public and private sectors. The post Canada Summer Jobs 2023: Application period is open for employers appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Phases range from courting big donors in the silent or “quiet” phase, to spreading the net wide in a public phase to include small and individual donors. This second phase, where your nonprofit openly courts all supporters of your cause, also performs as publicity for your organization.

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

In addition, we are working to make our data more open and accessible. It’s been one year since Candid received the email every nonprofit dreams of: confirmation of your $15 million grant. As requested, we are submitting this brief annual letter on our use of these funds.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Between January and June of each year, Max Bell Foundation delivers its annual Public Policy Training Institute (PPTI). They bring together 25 leaders from Canada’s charitable sector whose organizations want to impact the public policy process. Enrollment is open to staff or board members of any Canadian charity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 15, 2014

Thanks to a sponsorship from the Public Interest Registry , for the first and only time all Nonprofit Tech for Good webinars are being offered for free to the nonprofit community. Nonprofit Tech for Good occasionally offers free webinars, but the paid series has never before been offered at no cost to the public.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Founded by George Gallup as the American Institute of Public Opinion in 1935, the organization delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. Gallup, Inc. is a private, employee-owned analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Among workers in the U.S.,

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 25, 2022

AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the launch of the 2022 IMAGINE Grant Program, a public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Amazon Web Services, Inc. that are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 14, 2023

Amazon Web Services announced the launch of the 2023 IMAGINE Grant Program, a public opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the U.S. that are using technology to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Maytree Policy School is an opportunity for nonprofit organizations to enhance their public policy engagement and effectiveness. Beginning in January 2022, the program will support 20-25 policy leaders to enhance their skills and competencies and enhance their organization’s strategic engagement in the public policy process.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Philanthropy Reconsidered: Private Initiatives – Public Good – Quality of Life. This is an open-ended list.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 11, 2015

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” We strongly believe not only that open source is compatible with digital security, but that it’s also essential for it. The analogy of the strong safe with an open design is directly applicable to secure software design. I know which one I’d choose!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

They’re doing a virtual book tour exploring concepts from Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. Why did you write Open Community? We decided to write Open Community as a way to address those frustrations and redirect the thinking about using social tools to build community online.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks. On the open source side, Linux is by far the most popular, with BSD in second place. Both Linux and BSD come in several flavors (or distributions.) This underestimates servers inside enterprises.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2011

Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. However, Salesforce in particular has a leg up that most other proprietary tools don’t have, because of their open APIs and their incredibly robust development platform. It’s got a great community of developers and users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

CalNonprofits anticipates more state and federal policy efforts to emerge as this industry and these practices mature and has released this Open Letter to Crowdfunding Platforms. An Open letter to Crowdfunding Companies from the California Association of Nonprofits. Jan Masaoka’s guest post provides more details. Background.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2015

So how does an organization get people to open their emails rather than instantly relegate them to the virtual trash bin? Consider these four tricks for increasing email open rates by tapping into the inner psyche we all possess. • So insert a query in the header and see if doing so increases open rates. In a word: psychology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Now with the changes to the timeline, actions, and open graph announced on Thursday , I’ve been hearing a lot of concerns, fears, and reports from nonprofit folks that their audiences are upset. There is a larger issue here -the tension between privacy and publicness as Jeff Jarvis calls it. Some step-by-steps.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A week later, we were open for business.” An open mind and the ability to connect and collaborate with diverse groups and people (especially those who don’t share your point of view) creates the nuanced vision needed to imagine multiple outcomes. There was no working partnership with industry and public health.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 21, 2019

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these " open leadership skills assessment " questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I update people regularly?

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The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

These insights came from Melanie and Tara, along with the nearly 100 people who attended and lit up the chat: From Melanie: How declining trust is affecting higher education 2023 Gallup data shows that public trust in higher education has dropped 20 points over the last 8 years to a historic low of only 36% having confidence in higher education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public – Guest post by Victoria Dunning. Learning in Public. It involves creating a forum where wide and varied stakeholders can share and learn together in an open, transparent way. I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

3) Implement an Organisation-Wide Policy Implementing a comprehensive AI policy not only aligns everyone in your organisation but also opens the door for innovation. Openness fosters trust and reassures your supporters about the handling of their data. Consistency is critical for the effective and ethical use of AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 27, 2018

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these " open leadership skills assessment " questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I update people regularly?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Transparency about programmatic approach, results, governance, and finances are just a few ways a nonprofit can be open about its work, and this openness must start with the board. Transparency is an essential quality for a nonprofit. 2) Strengthen Institutional Memory. Plus, think of the potential trees saved! FULL BIO ].

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2019

Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these " open leadership skills assessment " questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I make myself available to people at all levels of the organization? Do I actively manage how I am authentic? Do I update people regularly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. I went to the Learning in Public session expecting to hear that the process the Packard Foundation used to evaluate their capacity building work was wildly successful. Could it be shared in whole or part with your public? Should you do the same?

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2009

The search tool has been in beta for the last couple of months, open to new users by invitation only while its developers gathered feedback from early users. Now, as of August 25, LazyFeed is available to the public. At first I wasn’t sure that LazyFeed would.( read more ). Video RSS search.

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