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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

Kony 2012 turned slacktivism on its head. In the end, Kony 2012 made some noise and was a success, but it was still considered slacktivism. Need to update your marketing skills? Cooper graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2011 with a bachelor''s degree in communications. But does that really help?

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. The even bigger one, in my view, is the acute shortage of talent in the sector, which I just wrote about in I’ll Take Great People Over Great Models Any Day.

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Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They provide people with disabilities with training in IT skills useful for employment. Computer Technologies Program has an employment placement rate of 80% and has served as the model for technical training programs. Its IT job training model has been replicated at more than 50 locations internationally. One USB hub.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Begin Connections.