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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

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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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TechImpact

AUGUST 21, 2013

The organization, a legal advocacy group for women’s issues based in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, decided to migrate its network over to Office … Continued The post Women’s Law Project Looks to the Future Switch to Office 365 appeared first on Tech Impact. When the Women’s Law Project decided to upgrade their computing capabilities earlier this year, IT Director and Programs Manager Barbara DiTullio knew she wanted a system that would provide flexibility, efficiency, and security.

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See What's Out There

DECEMBER 21, 2011

” Random Act of Culture | 5:59 Opera Company of Philadelphia The joy of the holidays is beautifully captured in this soaring flash mob perfomance of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah”, amid the hubbub of the shopping season. The Opera Company of Philadelphia brought together over 650 [.]. Change the world, one video at a time.“Hallelujah!” “Hallelujah!”

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 5, 2008

He lived in Philadelphia. Are You Being Served? Small Business: "Are You Being Served?Some Some people have skeletons in their closets, others have servers.When D.C. residents Bethany Robertson and Peter Murray founded the I Do Foundation in 2002, a small Washington nonprofit, they enlisted the help of a technology expert to manage their server. The only inconvenience? And so that's where the firm's

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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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TechImpact

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The 13 most recent graduates interned at the area’s leading corporations and nonprofits, including ACHIEVEability, Neighbor to Neighbor, The Urban League of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Youth Network, City Year Greater Philadelphia and The Salvation Army.

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SocialFish

DECEMBER 17, 2014

“Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live there — from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North Philadelphia. I know, I know. This is not quite what you expected when you clicked on this post title.

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Mobile Commons

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A new study out of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia shows – once again – how text messages can inspire people to change their behaviors.

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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 9, 2016

Check out Philadelphia Foundation’s 2015’s timetable here. By almost any measure, and in almost every industry, December is the busiest month of the year. This is especially true for community foundations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

Recently, I sat down with TJ Nicolaides and Allison Hossack of Think Company , a Philadelphia based design firm specializing in research, strategy, development, and design. . As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology.

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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

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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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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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 2, 2018

Those are the words of Julie Hirshey, Director of Community Relations for Super Bowl Champions Philadelphia Eagles, who came this year to chat about how her organization tackled explaining overhead to donors. Yet another Cause Camp is officially in the books.

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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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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Julie Hirshey is the Director of Community Relations for the Philadelphia Eagles, where she helps lead the organization’s philanthropic efforts. The moment is finally here!

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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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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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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 21, 2009

My 3:02 pm departure on United 186 to Philadelphia became 3:40 pm. Instead of getting in to Philadelphia at 11:35 pm, we were now due to land a little after midnight. Arrival in Philadelphia: 2:51 am. While other passengers would have of course preferred to be on their way to Philadelphia, no one seemed overly angry or upset. It’s 10:30 pm Eastern and I’m trying to force myself to stay awake until at least 11-11:30 pm to reset my body clock.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

14 students from the ITWorks program in the Philadelphia area visited SAP America last week for Career Day this year.

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VisionLink

JULY 4, 2012

He had seen the British fleet in Boston harbor and he had seen British ships attempt to sail up the Delaware River to attack Philadelphia. As is our tradition here at VisionLink, passing on holiday insights from Stan Stahl.

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GroundWire

MAY 15, 2012

Thomas Taylor - Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. If you've been waiting for a replacement to the discontinued Eventbrite Connector app, your long wait is over! This morning Groundwire launched Eventbrite Sync , the new and improved way to import attendee data from Eventbrite into Salesforce. The app is generally available for free installation from the AppExchange. Why Eventbrite? We found it to be a simple to use ticketing system with good rates for nonprofits.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Here are a few of my own personal best-ofs: the top three cheese-steaks in Philadelphia (Cosmi's, Jim's, John's Roast Pork), the best green chile in Denver (Santiago's, Benny's, Las Delicias), and the top breakfast tacos in Austin (Tamale House, Tacodeli, Mi Madre). Author: Dimitri Lundquist. I love "best-of" lists, and I love making them.

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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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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 22, 2010

I live about 30 miles outside of Philadelphia which has 4G coverage. We'll see how it does away from Philadelphia, particularly when I'm Amtrak and hit areas in Delaware that the old AirCard always gave up. I'm dealing with some medical issues again.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 22, 2010

I live about 30 miles outside of Philadelphia which has 4G coverage. We'll see how it does away from Philadelphia, particularly when I'm Amtrak and hit areas in Delaware that the old AirCard always gave up. I'm dealing with some medical issues again.

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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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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I’m here at Terminal C at the Philadelphia Airport, waiting for my flight to San Francisco. The airport normally has nice bright displays showing all the departing/arriving flights. Not today. Folks are usually quick to point out a random BSOD on displays as an example of Windows FAIL, so it’s only fair to show that it happens to the best of ‘em. Truth be told, I don’t know what part of the display is Apple software or hardware.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Co-pilot sadly not attending these events. One of the basic criteria for relevance has to do with effort. The more effort it takes to attain an experience, the less relevant it will feel--even if you know it will be meaningful.

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SocialFish

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Take a look at how one Twitter user improved feline welfare in Philadelphia, by using #donate. Studies have shown that posts with a hashtag have an engagement that is 12.6% higher than posts that don’t use hashtags. The power of hashtags is undeniable.

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Mobile Commons

MARCH 15, 2013

The lineup includes Mayor Bloomberg, Thomas Menino of Boston, Mike Nutter of Philadelphia, R.T. Last year, in the wake of the horrible shootings at Sandy Hook, the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns launched their initiative “Demand a Plan.”

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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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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

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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