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How MTSBA improved its advocacy program with real-time data

Nimble AMS

Many associations use data-driven decision making to move their missions forward, advance public policy, and enhance advocacy programs. The Montana School Boards Association (MTSBA) chose to use its data and Nimble AMS to elevate its leadership decision-making process, advancing its advocacy program. What challenges did MTSBA face?

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National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering Results for Arts Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Robert Stein, Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art told us, “Museums have tended to use [websites] as extensions of marketing.” The theater’s Marketing and Box Office Director, Jody Olson, observes: “ticket sales spike immediately when a digital message is sent out.”.

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Community Organizing and Social Justice Measurement in the Connected Age

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is always a conundrum in measuring social change movements as well as networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Montana – where we organize low-income rural communities – 73% are online, of which 43% are on Facebook.

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Takedown notices are threatening online thrift shops — just as business is exploding

The Verge

Online vintage and secondhand sellers describe a delicate dance they must do in order to stay in business — and that even when they follow the rules, their shops are at the mercy of the platform-specific policies and the rights holders. A post shared by Montana Bowman (@baltovintage). View this post on Instagram.

Business 107
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How to make work fair with practical and data-driven strategies

Fast Company Tech

Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Iris Bohnet is a professor of business and government at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program. Whats the big idea? Drivers do the same.

Work 63
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A tale of two surveys: Fintech VCs change tune on investment landscape

TechCrunch

The 10 states are Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Bell, a corporate finance attorney and a former White House policy advisor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in a press release. “We are rewriting the rules for homeownership,” says Ready Life CEO Ashley D.

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Big Vision Podcast: Interview with llyse Hogue Rainforest Action Network

Have Fun - Do Good

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals.

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