AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2012

Facing $600K in cuts, Philadelphia-area high school seeks to raise funds through eBay listing : LANGHORNE, Pa. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay. Forget magazine drives and candy sales. The starting bid of just under $600,000 for The Learning Center in Langhorne, Pa., is designed to offset steep budget cuts. A tongue-in-cheek listing describes the alternative school for at-risk teens as "pre-owned" and "slightly used

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Here’s how one nonprofit -- Philadelphia FIGHT -- made its case by demonstrating digital inclusion and enabling staff mobility. Philadelphia FIGHT is like many nonprofits, providing consumer education as a key component of the social services they deliver in the community. In addition to the mobile computer lab, Philadelphia FIGHT staff members made a case for mobile Internet as a business tool enabling staff mobility. By Michelle Warner, Director, Mobile Citizen.

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AFP Blog

MAY 14, 2008

Citywide wi-fi bites the dust | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/14/2008: "arthLink, in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday to break that partnership with the city and Wireless Philadelphia, complains that it spent almost $30 million to develop the system and has just 5,942 subscribers.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. We’re responsible for what Philadelphia will be.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2008

I'll be in Philadelphia October 17-21 for the ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual conference. I'd love to meet many of you there, whether you will be at the conference or will just be in town for the annual Art Buggy Derby.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 2, 2017

While working for an athletic team as popular as the Philadelphia Eagles can be difficult, communications director Julie Hirshey spends her time focusing their light rather than letting the disco ball get out of control.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 26, 2016

If you're in Chicago, Dayton, or Philadelphia in September, don't miss this opportunity to learn from Gregg Bossen, one of TechSoup's most popular trainers. Philadelphia — September 29.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2015

Gene Marks is a CPA and President of The Marks Group PC, a 10 person technology consulting firm based outside of Philadelphia. Magazine, Forbes, The Huffington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Fox Business and Philadelphia Magazine.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2016

Would be very hard to ignore this splashy mailer by Jane Gleissner for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ( @ChildrensPhila ). It’s the end of April, which means designer Tim Hammond and I mined another month of the finest nonprofit designs from every corner of our fine planet.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

With the help of educational philosopher John Dewey, Barnes founded the Barnes Foundation as an educational facility in Merion, PA, near Philadelphia. However, over the past thirty years, Philadelphia leaders clamored for the art to move to the city and be made more accessible to visitors (projections suggest the new facility will welcome 250,000 per year). Consider two examples in the Philadelphia area.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Jim Kenney, the Mayor of Philadelphia, emphasizes the need to bring the private and public sectors together by breaking down the wall between them. How can we take concrete, measurable action to align and motivate an unprecedented amount of human resources towards Agenda 2030?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

At a user group I attended recently in Philadelphia, it was revealed that nearly every grantmaker in the city shared at least one grantee with at least one other funder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As you probably know, the Pope is visiting the United States this week in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City. While the crowds will gather on the ground for a change to touch the hand of Pontiff, there will be a lot of crowds online to celebrate his visit.

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SocialFish

APRIL 4, 2016

———– Brittany Goodwin is a digital marketing professional and freelance writer in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Social media in general has had a profound impact on the way that people interact and do business, but many people have overlooked its effects on nonprofits.

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SocialFish

APRIL 12, 2017

The National Marketing Director will report to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and will ideally be based out of either Philadelphia, PA or New York City, NY. Here are some cool jobs, hand-picked by me, that you can find via the SocialFish job board !

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SocialFish

MAY 22, 2012

A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia shows that when the working population in a given geographical area doubles, its productivity (the rate of invention) goes up by 20 percent.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. I would like to wish all my readers, colleagues, and friends a happy new year!

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Net Impact / Philadelphia, PA / $509. Join us November 3-5 in Philadelphia, a city where revolutions are made, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. National LGBT Task Force / Philadelphia, PA / $325.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 19, 2016

Our good friends down at nonprofit Tech Impact in Philadelphia had some great advice for us over the year. What were the blog posts that were most popular on the BoardAssist blog in 2015? Thanks to Google Analytics, its easy for us identify which ones resonated most with our followers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

You can view a.PDF of the training agenda here , and locations, dates, and registration information is below: 9/22: Collingswood, NJ (Just outside Philadelphia, PA).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. In Philadelphia, the budget for arts education has been slashed to pieces.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. Guest post by Kevin Sparkman,V.P. Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. Anthony Pisapia is the Associate Executive Director of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2017

This app, Vaccines on the Go created by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), is designed to give parents quick, accurate data regarding vaccines. Nonprofits all have one thing in common: They need to raise money. There are some that do it better than others, and they’re usually the ones who manage to make the biggest impact. Reaching a larger audience is a key aspect of increasing donations. It doesn’t have to be huge donations, either.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Prior to the start of FusionSpark Media, Kevin worked as a communications and public relations professional in the health care industry in the Philadelphia area. Guest post by Kevin Sparkman,V.P. Producer and co-founder of FusionSpark Media, Inc.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 3, 2017

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: DIY Donor Management System Selection. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Google AdWords for Nonprofits.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

For example, Merlin Communications optimized this page for the Philadelphia area. According to the 2015 Nonprofit Benchmark Study , online revenue for nonprofits grew by 19% in 2015, a seven percent increase over the previous year. In particular, monthly giving grew faster than one-time giving in 2015. Sure, there are important national programs like United Way or massive online listings of nonprofits that give credibility and visibility for fundraisers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 25, 2011

9/22: Collingswood, NJ (Just outside Philadelphia, PA). I tell ya. It’s a surreal feeling to know that someone could be reading your book right now… on the subway, in a cafe, or at a park in any city, anywhere in the world.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Monday, November 16 in Philadelphia. If you could get the scoop on Office 365 in a single day, would you be interested? Turns out, we're offering some free events in October and November that will do just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Giving Where They Live: There are communities and cities localizing GivingTuesday through campaigns like BMore Gives More in Baltimore , #GivingTuesday Bucks County and #GivingTuesday Philadelphia.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 12, 2014

Asking Siri a question like “What time is sunset in Philadelphia today?” Image Courtesy of eSeller. In the past, we have discussed the importance of your nonprofit’s website, and generating traffic to it.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Have you ever paid $6 or $7 for a bottle of water at a theme park? How did you feel about it? In the late 90’s, Coca Cola decided to experiment with their pricing and customer’s willingness to pay.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 10, 2015

That’s why we turned to our good friends down at nonprofit Tech Impact in Philadelphia to educate us, and hopefully our readers, on why all our websites need to be responsive. What does that even mean?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

Philadelphia. Online fundraising continued its double-digit growth in 2013, retaining the mantle as the fastest growing fundraising channel, growing at 13.5% according to Blackbaud’s most recent Charitable Giving Report.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2017

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance The 2014 Patron Loyalty Study: Loyalty By the Numbers *Findings based on Blackbaud research. Almost every arts organization would say that audience development is vital to their long term viability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

For example, a ten dollar donation gives you a chance to be on the set of the comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Note from Beth: I hope you are enjoying summer break as much as I am!

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 31, 2015

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Your Nonprofit Website: WordPress. NetSquared gathers together nonprofits and activists, tech leaders and funders, and everyone who's interested in using technology for social change. Every month, our meetup leaders host free in-person events in 60 cities.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Guest post for the SocialFish by Hannah Connor.

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Tech Soup Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philly NetSquared Idea Generator. I'm not in school anymore, but September still feels like the real beginning of the new year. That's why this is the perfect time to make a fresh start on your nonprofit tech resolutions.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

It works closely with groups in and outside of Philadelphia, and has a model that may be applied beyond Penn." ''via Blog this The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Student organization connects non-profits with app development : "Two seniors are vying to save nonprofits thousands of dollars. Co-founded by Wharton and Engineering senior Dhruv Maheshwari and Engineering senior Ali Altaf, Hack4Impact connects student developer talent with nonprofit organizations free of charge.

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