Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Do you have an idea for an organization that will bring good to the world and serve a charitable purpose? You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address? There are over 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. Their AI system — dubbed Lymph Node Assistant, or LYNA — was able to detect cancer better than human pathologists. The idea is to take the hassle out of scheduling meetings.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you company is experiencing a constant or newly presented problem, a change will need to be made. Technological change – new software and systems. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented. Consider the problem or opportunity at hand. This is a proactive change. Change Management 101.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And this is a problem. You see, it means that hundreds of people are sitting on nonprofit Boards and have NO IDEA what they said “yes” to. In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Each new content delivery system is eagerly tested by technically oriented blind individuals or the organizations serving them, often to result in disappointment and widespread advice to avoid wasting limited resources on inaccessible content. In both cases, it’s about circumvention for accessibility, not circumvention for breaking the law.

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Byte Technology

MAY 27, 2016

The old saying goes that possession is nine-tenths the law. They may not own the domain name; they may be barred from taking the site to another server or designer; they may have become saddled with a proprietary Content Management System (CMS) that requires a professional to access and utilize; the list can go on and on.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2015

So why is biting at the lure of free website building and/or hosting a bad idea for non-profits? Consider these reasons, which ring true not just for non-profits but for anyone—from individuals to businesses—kicking around the idea. And in our tech-driven world, the website is the alpha and omega of media outreach. Loss of Control.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Gather a group of social entrepreneurs to brainstorm ideas to improve employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and you will harvest an array of innovative solutions. The ADA and the special education laws have produced the best-educated population of people with disabilities in U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. However, experiencing Napster sparked the idea for me of creating Bookster. My idea was completely legal!

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2021

websites, operating systems, apps, etc.) While some people might have no problem at all using sites that are properly accessible, much of the internet is impossible to use for some people. The post Web Accessibility Lessons Learned from a Total Beginner appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact. It’s a legal issue.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, with a bit of creativity and determination, there are plenty of cheap fundraiser ideas that can help you reach your goals. Affordable Ideas for Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraiser In this blog post, we’ve curated a list of 27 affordable fundraising ideas specifically tailored for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Non-traditional Groups, Innovative Ideas. The Challenge was designed to surface ideas from non-traditional groups. She's been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

It addresses the thorny problem of bringing the 25 percent or so of people in the city who are still not participating in the information age to inclusion. Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. Dunn Construction.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

For an organization that has traditionally been in the business of managing contracts and reimbursements, tapping into new revenue streams will require new skill sets and systems (translation: time and money). Systems-level collaboration. resources by stopping costly social problems in their tracks. currently lives in poverty.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

This idea of experimentation really resonates. “A veritable natural law in social media is that to get to a system that is large and good, it is far better to start with a system that is small and good and work on making it bigger than to start with a system that is large and mediocre and work on making it better.&#.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This is definitely what happened for our story: we started with a simple idea and then were incredibly surprised at how helpful an extra bag of groceries could be to a lot of households. All too often, we have the tools to fight (or at least, those we can grow to fight) systemic issues at our disposal, we just need to learn how to use them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

There's so much to talk about here with Amazon, so let me focus on just a few key points: The Closed Platform problem. The Textbook problem. The Closed Platform problem. The Textbook problem. If you've had kids lugging backpacks with 20 or more pounds of textbooks, the idea of having an 8 oz. The DMCA workaround.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

Here are the 7 ‘can’t miss’ breakout sessions coming up at this year’s #14NTC : 50 Shades of Social Media: Navigating Policies, Laws, and Ethics [#14NTC Shades]. Key Takeaways: Ideas for managing and setting the tone for your social media community and balancing the opportunity of social media with ethical and legal implications.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Everyone sees problems in the world, but true visionaries have the drive and the passion to engage everyone around them to help solve them. Perhaps you are one of those people who have a unique solution to solving a problem or filling a need and the drive and ambition to accomplish it. Is your idea an unmet need?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2005

We covered a lot of ground, but the one point I wanted to mention was Pamela's problem with the concept of "building the field." Her point is that there is no field of social entrepreneurship like there is a field of medicine, law, engineering or science. This caused me a bit of concern, since I thought that was something important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. Can't solve the world's problems with our money alone. The program works in partnership with states across the country. "Our

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Although cultures of giving to those in need are widespread, many countries lack the infrastructure that promotes philanthropy as we know it, including legal nonprofit status for organizations, tax laws that favor charitable giving, or established native foundations. A cultural incompatibility with the idea of "charity" in some cases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Linden Labs is a real case currently making its way through the United States federal court system. I learned a lot. Professor Nesson will serve as the judge in both trials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

In a country where the majority of law school graduates are women, why not a court that is majority female? And what would happen if we built a world-class education system around that idea? And what would happen if we built a world-class education system around that idea? More on this to come soon.)

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The case went through the European court system and he won the case. " The ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it operates. This is the first of more than 200 privacy cases against Google in the EU.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

The idea was to create a common data platform, branded as Service Net. We don’t try to solve a single problem. Said details how the system could improve data accessibility: Collaboration will also ensure that records are more comprehensive. Could Benetech, in partnership with service nonprofits, pull its Service Net vision off?

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

As you might have guessed, the phrase “boots on the ground” originated in reference to soldiers, law enforcement, and related personnel who were “physically present in a military or police operation.” It wasn’t until much later that it meant having a bright idea or flash of inspiration, and even then it was only part of American English.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And if that’s blowing your mind right now, it blew mine as well because I find texting to be something that’s a big problem for us in society, where we’re not able to emote and there are energies lost in translation, messages are lost in translation. . It started during COVID. ” . . – [Steven] Yeah.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Wonder creator and problem solver. Sleep problems and stirred up woes. Eventually regulators, hoping to safeguard our well-being, will introduce laws and standards that differ from country to country, effectively creating a splintered internet. This is a robust section of report with many ideas. Health and wellness aid.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem. So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

It’s a bad idea to try to combine every possible audience into one simply to make it easier for you. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. CAN SPAM laws so you don’t have to worry about it. The problem is that if you ask, ask, and ask some more, you’ll wear people out. Does it go to donors? Volunteers?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So what we’re hoping is, we’re talking about today is looking at things from a donor perspective, we’ll give you a better idea of how you can best respond. And the idea here is that we generally start in the lower left by identifying potential donors. S-O-F-I-I, Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Ideas.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Each winter hundreds of peer-to-peer fundraising professionals and industry experts gather to share new ideas, hear about industry trends and learn what’s happening in peer-to-peer fundraising.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Oh, yeah, we’ve got some new ideas for you. . We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. So what is this old system doing to us? I’m so glad you’re all here. I’m Steven. I’m over here at Bloomerang.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Annika Billqvist, Office and Technology Manager, HandsOn Bay Area When I started at HandsOn Bay Area in 2006, the organization didn’t have a long-term technology plan in place and used many different systems for communication, collaboration, and data storage. On December 30, 2009, our MS SBS server crashed under a massive virus attack.

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