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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

NLP is useful for an AI model to identify the intent of a person based on what they say or what they type. Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively. Collect rich, labeled data to train conversation models. In-house AI expertise.

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

Anacostia Riverkeeper’s team regularly tests the water quality, but current methods take days for the results to come back. Their approach can be adopted in other communities dealing with contaminated rivers. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. It has been adopted across the disciplines, institutional types, and throughout the world.

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Parlez Vous Twitter? Evangelizing Social Media In Your Nonprofit Organization and Paving the Way for Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" He talking about building shared language and understanding in order to successfully introduce a change (adoption of social media principles and tools) in an organization. There aren't detailed notes accompanying the slide show, so I'm not sure which theoretical change models may rest beneath. t universally adopt new curricula.

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More thoughts about Web 2.0 Adoption by Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and nonprofit adoption. There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. Jeremiah Owyang lay out a set of social media adoption questions that corporations ask: 2005: What is Social Media? Earlier this week, the Overbrook Foundation released a report on Web 2.0 2006: Why does it matter?

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