Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. We have a model for this kind of change: TTYs (text telephones) and relay services though the telephone. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. Are they intended to inspire students?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

What we’ve found has been really positive—for the most part, our work has been making a difference, and our existing program structure has served our Programs and grantees well. Over the next month, we’d welcome your input on our thoughts, what we are proposing to change or add, and what we plan to keep.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Some of these tools include: OpenAI for Nonprofits: ChatGPT can help draft grant proposals, refine data analysis, or tailor communication strategies for diverse audiences. This includes examining the data used to train AI models to ensure they represent diverse perspectives and populations.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Different price structures are ok for different projects. Models: Create a capped-rate, a retainer + hourly for tech support, project-based. How to size up clients if they’re a good fit? what are the red flags?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Production Network: This type of network inspires and encourages collective action by members to create innovative practices, public-policy proposals, and other tools or products that lead to social impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. Advisory Boards Need Structure. The most likely reason is time.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Develops new programming Writing proposals introduces the opportunity for new or enhanced programming.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

Despite its best intentions, traditional philanthropy has inhibited its grantee relationships by perpetuating structures and practices that treat grantees as supplicants rather than partners. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2010

In their presentation, they talked about an old-school, but still widely held organizational structure at nonprofits, that includes silos, processes, and people all working toward trying to solve a common problem or reach a common goal.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

With a myriad of options available, the LMS pricing model might seem like a puzzle. Usage: How intensively your LMS is used can affect the price, especially in usage-based models. Pricing Model Flexibility: Tiered pricing models offer different packages with varying sets of features and user limits.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

With a myriad of options available, the LMS pricing model might seem like a puzzle. Usage: How intensively your LMS is used can affect the price, especially in usage-based models. Pricing Model Flexibility: Tiered pricing models offer different packages with varying sets of features and user limits.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

With a myriad of options available, the LMS pricing model might seem like a puzzle. Usage: How intensively your LMS is used can affect the price, especially in usage-based models. Pricing Model Flexibility: Tiered pricing models offer different packages with varying sets of features and user limits.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Difficulties with data transformation: Data transformation is the process data from different sources will need to undergo in order for you to view it all in the same format or structure, thus streamlining your analysis tasks.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

The business case presents your proposal for change. A solid plan contains: the project structure. a TCO modeled over three to five years. This is where you outline the opportunity cost for staying with the system you have. Now is the time to talk numbers. stakeholders and their roles and responsibilities. identified risks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The science aspect refers to the comprehension of the technical structure upon which those words are arranged” (Blanchard & Bullock, 2010). Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2016

While there is little consensus on a “single best practice”, three distinct models have emerged and are recognizable as the most prevalent. For an organization assessing its own structure, this blog is intended to provide a simplified basis for self-comparison against each of the three models.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Why pursue a social enterprise model?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

However, if your main goal is to make money and you have a successful revenue model, you would be wise to consider starting a for-profit. You should think of your application as an audit of proposed (and/or previous) activity and a thorough examination of your nonprofit’s governing structure, purpose, and planned programs.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

To be clear, I am not sure Pietersen's proposal is that new — I have been saying something similar for some time — but that shouldn't stop one from finding value in it. The model consists of a four-step cycle: Learn: The act of reviewing the external environment in which the organization exists. Learn, etc.:

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

Internal management consultants help nonprofits develop their organizational structure. For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model. Once you’ve created your initial list, research the following for each candidate: Price model. Develop a request for proposal.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Uber, for instance, has been heavily scrutinized after record-setting valuations for a widely emulated business model that retains 30 percent or more of workers’ earnings, misleads its workers to create an oversupplied market, and has distorted activity to disadvantage other labor platforms. That has been academically debunked already.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Recommendations for Implementation.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

They can't build the schools and they can't train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. That said, there are structures within government that can handle risk.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll use Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model to outline a nonprofit change management plan that your organization can implement with minimal hassle and fuss. Instances where change management might be needed include adopting a new technology solution, product line, compensation structure, or standard operating procedure.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2018

How your grant office should be structured. In this article, I’ll explore each of these five factors and provide you with two models for structuring a grant office. . Preparing proposals has become cumbersome or disjointed across the organization . Structure: Basic and Full-Service Grant Office Models .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Budget and Resource Allocation Different LMSs have different pricing models. Consider the following: Capabilities User-friendliness Scalability Pricing Support Data security Reputation Further, begin communication by creating a Request for Proposal (RFP). Therefore, a vital step in your LMS needs assessment is to estimate your budget.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Budget and Resource Allocation Different LMSs have different pricing models. Consider the following: Capabilities User-friendliness Scalability Pricing Support Data security Reputation Further, begin communication by creating a Request for Proposal (RFP). Therefore, a vital step in your LMS needs assessment is to estimate your budget.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Budget and Resource Allocation Different LMSs have different pricing models. Consider the following: Capabilities User-friendliness Scalability Pricing Support Data security Reputation Further, begin communication by creating a Request for Proposal (RFP). Therefore, a vital step in your LMS needs assessment is to estimate your budget.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Because the focus of the book is on organizational structure and not on specific acts or events, Light spends almost no time describing each organization or its particular innovations. Instead, he uses illustrative examples from each to support broad theses about leadership styles, internal structures, and operational strategies.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

ACS CAN is a major proponent of the Direct Action Organizing model created by the brilliant grassroots campaigning organizers at the Midwest Academy. One benefit of this model is that we start our campaign planning by bringing together key players from every relevant department. Step 1: Our Internal Partnership.

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