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2691 Articles FoundAs the Year Turns: 10 Trends We Are Watching at NPQ
January 04, 2012The Editors As NPQ notes the passing of 2011 and the beginnings of 2012, we want to note some trends that we think will span the two years and have profound implications for civil society, at least in ...
Solving today’s complex problems with technology
According to “Twitter for Good” author Claire Diaz-Ortiz, we live in a world where more individuals have access to mobile phones than clean water. “This truth shapes the greatest challenge of our age: How can technology solve today’s most ...
It’s a Wrap
December 21, 2011 Policy Drafting Help is a Click Away: My Risk Management Policies If you’re looking for help developing custom risk management policies for your nonprofit, look no further. The Center is pleased to offer My Risk Management Policies, ...
IRS Updates
Useful Links: IRS.gov Charities and Nonprofits Homepage EO FAQs EO Forms and Publications EO Newsletter Life Cycle Upcoming Events: EO Calendar of Events IRS Resources Compliance & Enforcement Contact My Local Office e-file Forms & Pubs Frequently Asked Questions News ...
New RFP's Announced - January 2012
The RFP Bulletin is a publication of the Foundation Center. RFPs posted within the past week are listed below, sorted by topic. To search or browse all RFP postings, visit our Web site — new RFPs appear daily. PND posts ...
Say Something Poster Project is a poster design competition
The Say Something Poster Project is a poster design competition and gallery show created to give designers the opportunity to use poster design to say something that will inspire, motivate and educate teenage kids. Each year we partner with a ...
Texas Professors Aim to Oust Creationist Group From State Charity Campaign
December 2, 2011, 10:37 am A group of University of Texas faculty and staff members are protesting the inclusion of an organization that promotes the study of creationism on the roster of charities to which state employees can donate in ...
Fired up or burned out?
You’ve all heard the phrase “You should never judge a book by its cover.” The truth is we all do. In this particular case, I looked at some of the great management books we’ve featured at CausePlanet over the ...
Five Companies’ Tech-Savvy Charity Campaigns This Holiday Season
December 02, 2011 Aine Creedon var addthis_product = 'jlp-1.2'; var addthis_config = {pubid:'ra-4dff6aee44742879', ui_hover_direction:0, data_track_clickback:true, ui_language:'en', ui_use_css:true} 18 December 1, 2011; Source: Mashable | NPQ has been looking out for businesses taking advantage of social media and online ...
A Potential $15-Billion Windfall for Effective Nonprofits
November 30, 2011, 2:52 pm By Caroline Preston It’s one of the holy grails of philanthropy: Finding ways to steer more donor money to the highest-performing nonprofits rather than to less-effective or downright fraudulent groups. A new study by GuideStar ...
Facebook Contest Aims to Give Nonprofits Technology Makeovers
November 23, 2011, 5:25 am By Cody Switzer Toshiba, the electronics company, is using Facebook to give away a $100,000 technology makeover to one U.S. nonprofit and smaller prizes to four other charities. The company is asking nonprofits to “like” ...
New RFP's Announced
The RFP Bulletin is a publication of the Foundation Center. RFPs posted within the past week are listed below, sorted by topic. To search or browse all RFP postings, visit our Web site— new RFPs appear daily. PND posts ...
More Charities Give Their Messages a Shock Treatment
November 13, 2011 $().ready(function() { $('#enlarge-popup').jqm({onShow:chronShow, onHide:chronHide, trigger:'a.show-enlarge', modal: 'true'}); }); Dan Toulgoet/Vancouver Courier Yael Cohen (right) raised money for her charity by selling T-shirts with an expletive about cancer. She made the shirt for her mom (left). By Brennen ...
Get ready for year-end giving by improving your website donation pages
Posted on October 21, 2011 by Dawn Stoner var addthis_product = 'wpp-261'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};if (typeof(addthis_share) == "undefined"){ addthis_share = {"templates":{"twitter":"{{title}}: {{url}} (via @Donordigital)"}};} As the 2011 holiday giving season approaches, non-profit organizations need to be mindful to ...
International Volunteer Day (IVD) - 5 December
Volunteers, this is your moment. Celebrate International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2011! IVD offers an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to make visible their contributions - at local, national and international levels - to the achievement of the Millennium ...
Social entrepreneurship and the next generation of giving
Daniel Lemin - PremalShah, president of social entrepreneur web site Kiva.org By Melissa Steffan, Published: November 8 It is no longer considered gauche to give to someone in the developing world with the expectation that the money be returned. Nearly ...
Creating Community: Volunteering
by tedgar | More from this Blogger 08 Nov 2011 08:15 AM Yesterday we talked a bit about how informal, community acts of helping and giving can create community connections and teach your children about how giving does not need ...
Nonprofits as Equal Partners in the Economy: An Interview with Robert Egger
By Nell Edgington In this month’s Social Velocity blog interview, we’re talking with Robert Egger. Robert is the Founder and President of the DC Central Kitchen, the country’s first “community kitchen”, where food donated by hospitality businesses and farms ...
The Evolution of the Online Donor
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Stop Thinking Outside the Box
Dan Pallotta Dan Pallotta is an expert in nonprofit sector innovation and a pioneering social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Pallotta TeamWorks, which invented the multiday AIDSRides and Breast Cancer 3-Days. He is the president of Advertising for ...