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If that were the case, then the symposia, orientations, and conversations would solve the problem, but they don’t. Associations that don’t fix this cultural and system problem will be at a disadvantage. MORE
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But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Here are five common ways foundations cause more problems than they solve: Providing short-term funding for a long-term outcome. These practices may be so deeply rooted in a funder’s culture that they are practiced without anyone realizing the problems they may be causing as a result. The nature of philanthropy is a want to help. MORE
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Sargeant said the problem wasn’t just the board, but also who the board was selecting to lead the fundraising efforts. “A The post Admitting the Problem: Your Donor Retention Needs Work appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. MORE
Google Reader has announced a new feature that lets users create an RSS feed to track changes to any web page, even if the site doesn’t publish a feed. It’s great new feature for your website visitors who use Google Reader, but what about people who use a different feedreader or like to get updates by email? You can help those people get automatic notifications of your website changes, too.( read more ). Google Non-profit Communications websites RSS Feedburner MORE
READ THIS awesome post at my new favorite blog, Nonprofit with Balls. Here’s an excerpt, and there’s a lot more where this came from. AMEN, brother!!! Our nonprofit sector has an identity issue, and I think we should resolve this if we are going to reach our potential. MORE
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may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are already helping tackle real-world problems, just by playing games. Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act. MORE
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EVERY SINGLE younger generation is blamed as the problem as they enter adulthood. The younger generation is NEVER the problem. That’s the real problem. The entrance of the Millennials may be highlighting the problem, but they themselves are not the problem. MORE
Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. After having have had some early success, they were being confronted with criticism of lack of awareness of the scale or scope of the problem. MORE
Below are the aforementioned 5 problems, and I’ve attempted to provide a solution to help you remedy the problems. The problem: The initial inclination when building an online community is volume. The problem: People are busy. MORE
My new job is forcing me to confront my arithmophobia/dyscalculia (I’m not sure which it actually is–basically any kind of numbers or math freaks me out) as well as my loathing of Excel and I admit it’s almost pleasurable. MORE
Although these positive developments are possible, the Urban Institute Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy and the National Council of Nonprofits are well aware that there are many challenges and problems that have wormed their way into the system. But these are problems that have plagued a. MORE
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The Ice Bucket Challenge Won’t Solve Charity’s Biggest Problem - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review So, are we looking at the future of charity? We are glimpsing the potential of momentary collective engagement, but at the same time, we are seeing the confining rules by which nonprofits must play, collectively imprisoned in an ancient way of thinking. The ALS Association is already being scrutinized to make sure it doesn’t spend a penny of the Ice Bucket money on anything but research. MORE
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Here at Forum One, we love helping organizations make real progress on some of the world’s most pressing issues — education, poverty, the environment, global health, and international development (to name just a few). More often than not, a key to making that progress is connecting the thinkers, doers, influencers, and decision makers that have a stake in the world, and the initiative to change it. MORE
In this guest post, Amanda Kaiser offers some ideas for dealing with big and seemingly unsolvable problems so you can move forward again. membership MORE
THE CHALLENGE Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky challenged us to find a way to overcome a major practical problem with our Forum Gallery space: how to get visitors to enter a gallery that is often obscured by a large wall that blocks the light from the large lobby windows nearby. MORE
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Clinton Urges Charities to Focus on Solving Global Problems - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Clinton Urges Charities to Focus on Solving Global ProblemsMarch 22, 2011, 8:23 pmBy Holly HallChicagoFund raisers play an important role in helping a world that has grown entirely too unequal, unstable, and unsustainable, Bill MORE
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This has been a problem for a long time. It used to be a United Way problem. But that hasn’t solved any problems. The problem is only getting worse. The problem is that everything related to corporate giving programs and workplace giving data has changed.
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My new job is forcing me to confront my arithmophobia/dyscalculia (I’m not sure which it actually is–basically any kind of numbers or math freaks me out) as well as my loathing of Excel and I admit it’s almost pleasurable.
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But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Here are five common ways foundations cause more problems than they solve: Providing short-term funding for a long-term outcome. These practices may be so deeply rooted in a funder’s culture that they are practiced without anyone realizing the problems they may be causing as a result. The nature of philanthropy is a want to help.
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There is a problem with nonprofits today. Or as Eric Weinheimer might say, there is a problem with nonprofits “non-yesterday, non-tomorrow.” The title isn’t the only problem with nonprofits though. The post [MCON 2015] The Problem With Nonprofits ‘Non-Yesterday’ appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. a.k.a. today). Could something as simple as the title of our sector be crippling industry growth?
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I will be assisting Rick Johnston with his ASAE13 session in Atlanta on Monday on “Crowdsourcing for Problem Solving”, along with IdeaScale’s Josh Folk. Crowdsourcing for Problem Solving – Monday 8/5, 3:15 pm, Room B214. We need your help!
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