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Lame spam of the day: boundless online grant applications

Robert Weiner

My first thought was that "boundless" online grant applications meant "endless", which would be horrifying. I cling on to listening to the newscast lecture about receiving boundless online grant applications so I have been looking around for the finest site to get one. I was struck by the language in this spammy blog comment.

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Social Enterprise and the Small Business Administration

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Author Andrew Wolk, a Senior Lecturer at MIT on Social Entrepreneurship, focused much of his discussion around the concept of how social enterprises were a socially useful response to market failure. He covers some other great social enterprises such as ITNAmerica (a novel approach to senior-focused paratransit) and Kaboom!

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Giving 2.0: The MOOC Launches Today: Sign Up for Free

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Students will consider and vote on eligible nonprofits and collaboratively determine which ones receive Learning By Giving Foundation grants. The lectures are brief, fun conversations in the forums, and worksheets are great. Each week is packed with content and activities as well as video modules exploring that theme.

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Free Live Chat on February 26: How to Get Grants for Your International Work

Tech Soup

Foundations that give grants to non-U.S. time-consuming, steps before and/or after the grant is made to verify. time-consuming, steps before and/or after the grant is made to verify. foundation grants for your international work, join the conversation in a live chat on Tuesday, February 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Granted, it has been on the agenda of every executive ever since Henry Chesbrough’s seminal Open Innovation came out in 2003. You can read 10 books about it or listen to someone lecture about it all day, but how do you really start learning to ride a bicycle? Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control? You get on.

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My top 5 Salesforce/Common Ground administrator tips (as presented at the Convio Summit)

Judi Sohn

I was grateful the other half were consultants or Convio employees who also positively participated in the discussion, which was more of an open exchange than a lecture. I'd say half the room fit our target perfectly, which helped make the session successful. than to poke around in the interface or export on demand.

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Who Sits at Your Leadership Table? A Case for Senior Technologists

NTEN

He is a frequent speaker on nonprofit tech issues at forums, including the Google Grants Conference, NTEN, U.N. Youth Summit, NonProfit Coordinating Committee NY, National Conference on Volunteering and Service, National Red Cross Conference for Volunteers, and as a guest lecturer at NYU and NYIT.