Remove 2010 Remove Awareness Remove Facilitation Remove Global
article thumbnail

Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

The dual shocks of COVID-19 and an oil price war have roiled global markets. Uncertainty is likely to continue as the dual shocks on the global economy are increasing the probability of recession. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? We have to look at the financial markets.

Lesson 52
article thumbnail

Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you?

Amy Sample Ward

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years.

Change 108
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. As a 2010 winner. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab. improvement through app development.

Develop 59
article thumbnail

Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7. USA for UNHCR created the Blue Key campaign as a way to drive awareness of this global issue in the US. Given that there are more than 43.3 Why important?

Analytics 100
article thumbnail

Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

Facilitating face-time and team building for your regional staff. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, 350 also carefully timed the road trip one month before its 10/10/10 Global Work Party in which volunteers challenged world leaders to join them in doing the hard work to create climate solutions.

article thumbnail

Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al., Started in 2009 in Florida, Clean the World Foundation began as a global humanitarian organization registered as a 501(c)(3).

Model 53
article thumbnail

Avoiding a House of Cards: Three Lessons from a Multiple-Organization Data Collaboration Project

NTEN

In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. Seven organizations participated: 501cTECH, Idealware, Network for Good, NTEN, NPower, NPower PA, and TechSoup Global. The project would fail if participants did not trust in each other and the process.