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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

While it’s never the intended outcome of those initiating “stop energy” efforts (a term first coined by Dave Winer to describe a common experience in technology development), initiatives that only organize around the “stop” often end with that stage. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right.

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What We Can Learn From the COVID-19 Philanthropy Commons

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We attribute this failure, largely, to sociological hurdles. Without existing rapport among users, the technology platform alone could not compel coordination of funding. In April 2020, Schmidt Futures took COVID-19 as an opportunity, organizing more than 200 people (mostly staff from institutional philanthropies) to meet the moment.

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How To Get The Most Out of Your Case Management Software

GiveGab

They do the admirable and time-intensive work that makes our communities a better place to live, and technology plays an undeniable role in that. Your strategies can only be as effective as the technology that backs them, so start with a solution that’s equipped with the features your team needs.

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Recapping & Reflecting: How to Learn from Nonprofit Mistakes

Fundraising Coach

Ann brings over 24 years of experience in business-to-business (B2B) marketing in the technology industry, including time spent working at a nonprofit organization. Surveys have shown that adults in the U.S. overwhelmingly prefer playing it safe to taking risks. However, a study from Susan R.

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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

NonProfit Quarterly

The Higgs government’s most recent energy plan has come under scrutiny for its express dependence on technological innovation, centering its efforts on hydrogen production and going so far as to name its report the New Brunswick Hydrogen Roadmap (NBHR). How we build a green economy matters.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. Ten years later, we have distinct functions of finance, which includes accounting, operations, and information technology.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. We are a platform that’s dedicated to enabling the nonprofit community to accept cryptocurrencies in a safe, simple, and secure way.