http://www.nonprofitist.org Because I started an international nonprofit organization and so can you! Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:22:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my first interview, I was joined by Selene Biffi, co-founder of Youth Action for Change, a global online platform inspiring and empowering young people to become affective changemakers in their own communities. In a previous interview to i-genius.org, Selene stated: Young people account for half of the world’s population, yet they are ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/06/11/podcast-2-interview-with-selene-biffi-co-founder-of-youth-action-for-change/ It's been one month since my first post. Any comments so far? http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/05/21/feedback-on-this-blog/ Last night I got together with my friend Lachlan, to talk in quite general terms about organizational structure and organizational design. What came out of it was our first podcast. The organization we occasionally refer to is SPEED (Student Platform for Engineering Education Development), the nonprofit startup we're both working on ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/05/18/podcast-1-an-overview-on-organizational-structure/ A recent comment to my previous post by abenamer made me realize that the words "international nonprofit organization" or "international NGO" might mean different things to different people. He wrote: I tend to define international NGOs in a developed world/undeveloped world relationship. I tend to think of it as the facilitation of resources ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/05/13/what-is-an-international-nonprofit-organization/ Short answer, more than 40000. Long answer, 40000 is just the tip of the iceberg. Wikipedia says that "The number of internationally operating NGOs is estimated at 40,000": the source is 'Global Civil Society 2001' (Anheimer et al., 2001), containing info about international organizations and the location of their secretariats (together with other useful stats like links ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/05/05/how-many-international-nonprofits-can-you-count/ Very often, when a nonprofit is being established, many of the people who get involved and try to get things running will either already have a job/career of their own, or perhaps some other major activity they're focusing on in their life (e.g. involvement in another nonprofit, perhaps). The resulting ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/05/03/a-5-step-approach-to-develop-and-maintain-members-commitment-through-communication/ Organizations are not created in a vacuum. They are born and grow within a network of meaningful connections to people and other organizations that allow them to develop and flourish. Sometimes, controlling part of that network and turning it to the organization’s advantage is a more than worthwhile endeavour: this ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/04/21/building-advisory-groups-for-your-organization/ Let me tell you what we have in mind here. There are two main types of blogs related to nonprofit organizations: one category includes blogs of nonprofit organzizations, that come to life, as most commentators suggest, mostly as a communication and marketing effort, driven by a desire to better relate to ... http://www.nonprofitist.org/2008/04/20/how-to-start-up-a-blog-about-how-to-start-up-an-organization/