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I'm starting an IT course in late January so I am going to be forced to use windows... that scares me more than my transition to Linux 10 years ago!
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Games, dbpoweramp and a glucose monitoring ap. keeps me on gatesware about 20% of the time
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Dear Jasper,
Many thanks for the valuable time spend by you in going through and replying to my query. I had successfully installed Office 2000 in my home PC running on Puppy Linux 4.2.12 (An old P-III computer system) with Wine 1.1.14. Word, PowerPoint and Access works. Excel also works but when it comes to worksheetscongaing Excel Macro , nothing happens when a macro is executed.The Excel sheets are quite complex as they used to calculate Indian Income Tax. Further, they are prepared and uploaded on their website by Indian Income Tax Department and as such it is not possible for me to ascertain the macros contained in it. Being a computer programming illiterate, any question of rewriting them does not arise. I have tried almost all the known worksheets programme in Linux but has failed to find a solution. It is because Excel uses MS Basic as its macro language but worksheets software available for Linux uses some other programming language which fails to execute those MS-Excel macros. Hence the problem.Anyway, thanks for replying to my query
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Hi sansriraj.
ITR-1 Excel Utility R7 344 KB
ITR-1 PDF Utility 1.1 119 KB
ITR-2 Excel Utility R10 1454 KB
Are any of the above what you want to use?
If not can you please provide the references of the others you need?
Is your most urgent interest currently in 2010/11 or 2011/12?
I would be happy to download and spend a few hours during the coming Christmas holiday to see if I can suggest anything.
Alternatively, if you will be paid for your work from home is it worth investigating the installation of Windows (to complement Puppy ) and MS Office 2007?
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Posted: Fri 23 Dec 2011, 06:41
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it took me 2 months to completely move from windows xp to linux.
Now its been a few years and i dont use windows for anything and i have even moved from the usual windows games to the free linux ones and i am no less stimulated playing free linux games as i was using windows ones that i had to pay for.
The only time i will use windows is if i have a lan party and play other windows based games. I have a win7 laptop and i never use the win7 bit of it.
Unless im playing games on a special occasion with others that play non free windows games, i will never use windows,
This to my has been an upgrade. I spend 0 money on software now and i can simply do more things with my computer much easier than when i was running windows.
Only in recent years has linux actually been good enought to be a gaming platform and do everything else windows can do, but for many years its been far superior for internet stuff and office stuff and server stuff.
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Dear sickgut,
For one, thanks for what you are doing. For another, I only tend to use one app in Windows under wine to do what I do a lot, is composing music. That app is Overture, and it works fine under Wine. I also like musescore, but I am not so adept at using it at the present, but it is a matter of getting used to it.
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Dear sickgut,
For one, thanks for what you are doing. For another, I only tend to use one app in Windows under wine to do what I do a lot, is composing music. That app is Overture, and it works fine under Wine. I also like musescore, but I am not so adept at using it at the present, but it is a matter of getting used to it.
With kind regards,
i use flstudio in wine. only the demo version as is it fully featured except for saving your flstudio data type of file, but you can still save as wav!!! so i just save everything i do as high quality wave files and when i reload then in another project there isnt even any noticable loss is quality when i chop and change things or make a new track.
There is some menu text corruption but its well worth using still.
I use dosemu to run all my old dos stuff. I used to use dosbox but performance was an issue, dosemu runs everything as fast as your PC usually runs but has intelligent timers for older programs so it dosnt run 1000x faster than it should..
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Posted: Tue 27 Dec 2011, 02:50
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Dear Jasper,
Many thanks for your kind offer of looking into the correctly identified utilities by you.
I am not at all mean enough to request you to waste your Christmas vacations in modifying these files.
Further, these utilities are redundant as on date as ITR returns for current Assessment Year has already been filed and similar utilities for next Assessment Year is yet to be released by Income Tax Directorate.
Additionally, my interest is not at all limited to running only these utilities but want to know,whether there exists a way in Puppy Linux, where worksheets containing MS-Visual Basic macros can be run .
With warm personal regards and beleted Christmas and Happy 2012.
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I reboot into Windows every time I want to play Call of Duty or Minecraft.
Other than that, I'm running Puppy 80% of the time and Ubuntu 20% of the time.
(Yes, I know Minecraft supposedly works on Linux, but I have a Radeon HD 4350, and I haven't gotten it working on any Linux distro... I can't unpause the game on Puppy, and I get one frame every 5 seconds on Ubuntu...)
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Hi all,
I still rely on Windows each April to complete the family Tax Returns. There are good freeware programs available now, but none have been written for Linux based operating systems that I know of. Note: I have never tried to run such software in
. Someday, I may choose to
(complete the Return on-line) in which case I will be able to do so regardless of operating system, but I must admit I am a bit hesitant, perhaps needlessly so, but... I feel more in control in terms of being able to work with and save
my data on my computer.
is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school.
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I haven't used it since I discovered Puppy Linux.
I bought a second-hand laptop recently that came with Windows 7. I didn't particularly want 7, I wanted the laptop. So I thought I'd dual-boot for a while, then I went into setting up 7. It looked like an nice OS, everything worked, click-click, ooh that's pretty, etc.
Then, it was recommended to install virus scan software. I clicked okay, and was watching the process, anti-phishing, anti-malware, anti-virus updates, and I had a vision of the future where I'd be compelled to update all of that every other day just to try and stay safe in-line.
Just watching it all install was enough to bring me to my senses. No thank you. I cancelled, deleted Windows, partitioned the hard drive and now I'm running three or four Pups and loving it.
I didn't need Windows for any particular task. It's the same with Puppy. I just browse, e-mail, music, photos. Light user. I don't even need a specific Puppy version, they'll all more or less do whatever I need, but with Pup I don't need all the anti-virus software and if I totally wreck anything I just delete and start over.
I can't imagine ever being tempted back to Windows.
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Posted: Tue 30 Apr 2013, 17:34
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Hi, Tote.
Very convincing. Exactly how I feel.
You didn't mention that Windows is so much of a slowpoke : 2 min 45 sec. to boot into Windows, whereas to boot into Puppy it's 30 seconds or so.
I think that your testimony above should be on the first page of puppylinux.org and puppylinux.com, at the very top.
Have a great day!
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harry@biker ~ $ cd /home/harry/Isos
harry@biker ~/Isos $ ls
android4.0rc2eeepc AntiX Slimpup TinyCore Windows
$ cd Windows
harry@biker ~/Isos/Windows $ ls
3.1 rar Dos document.odt Windows 3.1
95-floppy-windows MS-DOS-6.22 Windows for Workgroups 3.11
harry@biker ~/Isos/Windows/95-floppy-windows/Win95Floppy $ cd Win95Floppy
harry@biker ~/Isos/Windows/95-floppy-windows/Win95Floppy/Win95Floppy $ ls
It is the only thing I can get on floppy that installs and boots to a gui on a
P66hz, 12MB ram, MA401 pcmcia 16bit Netgear wireless B card. No cdrom . 1992 Kapok/Nan-Tan color screen netbook. Uses a 16bit pmcia dialup modem card with a phone line jack also.
Then. I need my Windows 7 laptop for
for stuff like
Linux is just starting to get into automotive, but just for cars. Us bikers are the red headed step child I guess.
On the ancient netbook. Checking out ebay lately. My netbook might actually be worth something now for collectors of old computer gear. Mine is in tip top shape and the battery still holds a charge (weighs about 5 pounds.)
Any Gaming. I do doom in dosbox.
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Hey roky -- I have a copy of a thing called XWOAF -- XWindows On A Floppy. It *might* work on that Stone Age laptop of yours
PM me and I can send you the disk image. It's in *.img format -- hope you know how to
on a modern box, because I sure as heck don't! Alternately, hop over to the DOS prompt (you could still do that from '95 without a reboot, right? It's been a while, lol...) and use the Internet and RAWRITE. I can send you both RAWRITE (for DOS) and XWOAF, that's not a problem.
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|The Matrix of Strategic Options for Scaling Out is a conceptual framework to help social entrepreneurs and funders identify and assess options for scaling innovations, including branching, affiliation and dissemination. The authors also recommend refining scaling strategy by considering the Five R's: Readiness, Resources, Receptivity, Risk, and Return.
Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World [requires purchase]
|An examination of how today's leading philanthropists are revolutionizing the field, using new methods to have a vastly greater impact on the world. For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists – the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give – it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style strategies and expecting results and accountability to match. Matthew Bishop and Michael Green examine this new movement and its implications. Proceeding from interviews with some of the most powerful people on the planet—including Gates, Bill Clinton, George Soros, Angelina Jolie, and Bono, among others—they show how a web of wealthy, motivated donors has set out to change the world.
Profile: American Kidney Fund
|The American Kidney Fund (AKF) was founded in 1971 to help people with kidney failure pay for dialysis. For 25 years AKF grew slowly, relying on funding from small donors with personal ties to kidney disease. But in 1996 an opportunity opened up when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) banned healthcare providers from covering needy patients' Medicare Part B and Medigap premiums. HIPAA left thousands of kidney patients unable to pay for treatment. AKF acted fast—partnering with healthcare providers to serve these disenfranchised patients—and revenues soared. "Switching our emphasis to corporate partners in 1997 was the real turning point in our organization," said Don Roy, director of finance and operations.
Profile: Communities in Schools
|From a small start in Atlanta in 1971, Communities in Schools (CIS) has grown to become the largest dropout prevention program in the country. By bringing caring adults into schools to address children's unmet needs, CIS frees up teachers to teach and helps students focus on learning. While the charisma of CIS founder Bill Milliken drove early connections to large donors, in time, the organization began to rely heavily on federal funding, which has created some ups and downs. In the 1980s, CIS transitioned to a national network structure—a move that spurred growth by allowing state offices to seek their own funding.
Profile: Conservation International
|Conservation International's mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage—our global biodiversity—and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature. CI's combination of scientific inquiry and large-scale conservation supports the organization's appeal to governments, foundations, and wealthy individual donors. CI seeks to maintain operational autonomy by appealing to funders who agree with the fundamentals of its mission. CI also has leveraged its financial stability to expand into market-based approaches to conservation and form partnerships with governments, multinational organizations, private corporations, and other stakeholders.
Profile: Habitat for Humanity
|Since 1976 Habitat for Humanity has been using donated building materials, professional services, and volunteer labor to help low-income families become homeowners. This Christian ministry is largely funded by small individual donors. A key asset is Habitat's strong brand, which the it has built, in part, by using high-profile people such as Jimmy Carter to communicate its message. "A strong brand is at the center of our fundraising from so many small donors," said CFO Lyn Johnson. "But the tremendous value of Habitat's brand name has grown slowly and depended on the organization's stability." As Habitat has grown, its network model has enabled it to continue to engage communities on a grassroots level—essential to successful mass fundraising.
Profile: HELP USA, Inc.
|Founded in 1986 as a low-cost, high-impact alternative to New York's approach of paying hotels to house the homeless, HELP USA builds transitional shelters, provides support services, and moves homeless families to stable housing faster than welfare hotels. Over the years, the organization has branched out geographically. It also has expanded its programming to include case management, welfare-to-work, child mentoring, and domestic violence programs. While HELP USA is somewhat limited to those services the government will reimburse, its growth has come, in part, through its ability to demonstrate better outcomes at a reduced cost, manage complex finances, and maintain an engaged board.
Profile: HOPE worldwide
|Founded by the International Churches of Christ in 1991, HOPE worldwide delivers community-based services to poor people. The nonprofit operates in more than 70 countries and assists more than one million people each year. Focusing on education for children and medical services for the elderly, HOPE worldwide relies on volunteers to build strong ties with the communities it serves. Despite challenges in funding organizational capacity, the nonprofit has been able to support its ever-expanding services by reaching beyond its base of small individual church donors and tapping government and corporate grants. In-kind donations from corporations and hospitals also have been instrumental in its growth.
Profile: Make-A-Wish Foundation of America
|The Make-A-Wish Foundation originated in 1980 when a terminally ill boy had his wish to become a police officer granted. Later that year, Make-A-Wish began fundraising to grant more wishes; today its revenues exceed $160 million and its 71 U.S. chapters have granted the wishes of more than 144,000 children worldwide. During the 1990s Make-A-Wish grew rapidly by opening loosely-governed local chapters. Once chapters covered the U.S. growth slowed—though the nonprofit has continued to enjoy strong support from individual and corporate donors. The purity of the nonprofit's mission make it an easy sell to fundraisers, partners, and volunteers—and Make-A-Wish leaders have worked hard not to muddy the waters.
Profile: Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
|The Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership (MBHP) was born in 1991 from a merger of the Boston Housing Partnership and Metropolitan Housing, Inc. In its early years, MBHP was a full-spectrum real estate developer and housing services provider. But facing steep competition in the real estate development arena, the nonprofit eventually refocused its efforts on an unment need: rental assistance for low income and homeless families. By honing ts expertise in managing vouchers and housing families quickly, MBHP made itself an asset to government agencies. In turn, MBHP's revenue growth has closely followed the growth in federal funding for rental assistance housing voucher programs.
Profile: National Wild Turkey Federation
|The National Wild Turkey Foundation (NWTF) funds scientific wildlife management to promote wild turkey hunting. Since its founding in 1973, NWTF has helped grow the U.S. wild turkey population from 1.3 to 7.0 million. This grassroots conservation organization, which grew slowly through its first two decades, has expanded dramatically since the late 1990s when NWTF made profitability a top goal and honed its banquet-in-a-box fundraising model. With the help of local turkey enthusiasts, NWTF runs over 2,000 banquets per year—averaging $10,000 each in net receipts. In addition to producing revenues, the banquets have grown NWTF membership from 20,000 in its early days to its current size of 500,000 members.
Profile: Natural Resources Defense Council
|Founded in 1970 the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) uses legal and scientific expertise—along with a base of 1.2 million members and online activists—to protect the planet's wild life and wild places. Best known for its involvement in the Clean Air Act, NRDC's current campaigns address climate change and oil drilling in Alaska. After 20 years of limited growth with mainly foundation funding, NRDC leadership realized it needed individual donors to grow more significantly. Simultaneously, the nonprofit was shifting from pure policy analysis to increased advocacy efforts. Today, individual members, who are attracted to NRDC's broad range of environmental programming, provide more than 70 percent of revenues and powerful advocacy support
Profile: Nehemiah Corporation of America
|When HUD made it legal in 1997 for nonprofits to disburse private-sector donations to help low-income families buy homes, the Nehemiah Corporation was poised to translate regulatory change into rapid growth. Through the Nehemiah Program the nonprofit charges private corporations a small fee in return for its grant placement services. "In the beginning our growth was due to being in the right place at the right time," said CEO Scott Syphax. "Now it is due to our people, our management, and our operational practices." Despite private sector talent and best practices, in recent years, growth at Nehemiah has slowed due to increased competition and difficulty obtaining foundation funding.
Profile: Opportunity International
|Complexity can make a nonprofit organization a tough sell to donors. But Opportunity International has managed to use complexity to its advantage. This Christian ecumenical organization creates jobs and stimulates small, primarily women-owned businesses through micro-enterprise development. In many ways Opportunity's complex program model has dictated its funding strategy. The nonprofit engages in data-rich, one-on-one conversations with high net-worth individuals. This investment in donor relationships has paid off: Opportunity's revenues have grown steadily over time, with 80 percent of individual dollars coming from 4 percent of donors who give at least $25,000.
Profile: Oregon Food Bank
|The Oregon Food Bank (OFB) seeks to eliminate hunger in Oregon, which the USDA identified as the worst state in terms of hunger and food security in 1999. To meet this pressing need, OFB collects and distributes food to 20 regional food banks. While OFB has maintained a constant mix of in-kind donations (approximately 70 percent) and cash, it has constantly innovated in order to grow. For example, in the late 1980s OFB shifted from 75 percent USDA funding to 75 percent private donations. And in the late 1990s OFB shifted from large donations of packaged and canned goods from a few retailers to large quantities of fresh and frozen donations from farmers and processors.
Profile: Population Services International
|For its first 16 years, Population Services International (PSI) worked mostly in family planning. But since the late 1990s, PSI has grown dramatically as it's expanded the health problems it addresses—including AIDS, malaria, safe water, and nutrition—and the places it serves. Today, PSI works in 60 countries, investing heavily in local staff to give them decision-making authority. At the heart of PSI's growth? Successful commercial marketing strategies borrowed from the for-profit sector to promote health products, services, and healthy behaviors that help people lead healthier lives. PSI's ability to demonstrate positive outcomes has been key to attracting governmental and major individual donors.
Profile: Safe Horizon
|Profile: Safe Horizon
For over a quarter of a century, Safe Horizon has assisted victims of crime and abuse. Today the nonprofit serves 350,000 people each year through its 80 programs, which range from domestic violence shelters to court-based services. In 1998 new CEO Gordon Campbell shifted the focus from adding new programs to managing and executing core programs effectively. "The ability to manage and plan effectively, together with maintaining the quality of our social services, has allowed us to be successful in an increasingly competitive market," said Campbell, who emphasized setting long-term goals, implementing systems, and adding expertise through key hires.
Profile: Success For All Foundation
|The Success For All Foundation (SFA) develops, evaluates, and disseminates proven reform models for preschool, elementary, and middle schools, with a particular focus on schools serving at-risk children. SFA programs have always been designed around Title 1 federal funding requirements—a strategy that propelled growth for a number of years. But in 2001 SFA hit a major stumbling block with the passage of No Child Left Behind. As schools shifted away from SFA, growth plummeted. Since then SFA has reduced its staff, divested select programs, and pared down to a core set of reading products. As a smaller, more focused organization, SFA can continue to impact education moving forward.
Profile: Texas Migrant Council
|Since 1971 the Texas Migrant Council, Inc. (TMC) has provided Head Start and other services for the children of migrant farmworkers. TMC serves families along the Texas-Mexico border for nine months out of the year and then migrates to places where families find seasonal work. After a brief foray into workforce development in the mid-90s, TMC refocused on children. "We had to realize that our greatest resource was our expertise in early child education," said CEO Mary Capello. In recent years TMC offices have taken a more active role in program management. This has resulted in higher quality services and faster growth—within Texas and into new geographic markets—through improved access to local funding.
Profile: The Greater Boston Food Bank
|Distributing over 25 million pounds of food annually to hundreds of local agencies, the Greater Boston Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England. At the Food Bank efficiencies have driven growth, as the nonprofit has become more effective at processing and distributing products. Such efficiencies have allowed the Food Bank to increase food distributed and areas served, creating a broader base for fundraising. The organization has also adopted best practices from for-profit companies and pursued key private sector hires. Now a new challenge: Having maximized its current operational activities, to continue to grow, the Food Bank must invest in new operational capabilities, such as those inherent with perishable foods.
Profile: Trust for Public Land
|Simply put, the Trust for Public Land (TPL) conserves land for people to enjoy it. TPL does this by buying land from private sellers and selling it to public agencies. During the last 35 years TPL has raised over $35 billion in land conservation-related funding and facilitated more than 2,700 land transactions. But most of these accomplishments have taken place since the mid-1990s. At that time TPL moved into the "conservation finance" arena, running state and local campaigns to increase land conservation awareness and funding. A few years later growth exploded when new President Will Rogers made it an explicit goal.
Profile: Youth Advocate Programs, Inc.
|Founded in 1975 Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) contracts with state, city, and county authorities, offering a cost-effective alternative to jail or institutional rehabilitation for adjudicated youth. Over the years it has grown by translating political crises into funding opportunities: When states have been unable to fund their correctional systems, YAP has offered a more affordable model. As YAP's name recognition has grown, the organization has been able to expand to 115 programs in 11 states and Washington, D.C. Relying entirely on government funding, YAP has faced some financial ups and downs, which it has endured thanks to the personal sacrifice of its founders and the passion of its staff.
Profile: Youth Villages
|Youth Villages serves youth in or at risk of entering the child welfare and juvenile justice systems through a range of residential facilities, foster care, and in-home services. Relying heavily on state funding, Youth Villages has achieved significant scale by working with multiple states and multiple departments within each state—often collaborating with states to assess needs and develop programs. The organization's willingness to take on significant risk in its contracts has also buoyed its funding. For example, the state of Tennessee pays Youth Villages an amount per child based on the child's situation. The nonprofit then must service the child for that fee, regardless of how much service the child ultimately requires.
Real Results: Why Strategic Philanthropy is Social Justice Philanthropy
|This report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's suggests that prioritizing and including underserved communities and support of community organizing are important components of successful philanthropic strategy regardless of issue focus. The last several years have seen a shift in philanthropy: an emphasis on maximizing impact has grantmakers aiming to be more organized, focused and, perhaps above all, "strategic" in their efforts. While this admirable shift has made philanthropy more effective, our society and the nonprofit sector continue to confront significant disparities.
Replicating High-Performing Public Schools: Lessons from the Field
|As a growing number of schools demonstrate that public education can work for every student, the question is no longer, "Can we create schools that will achieve outstanding results for all students?" but rather, "How can we replicate schools that we know can work, without sacrificing quality outcomes and within the constraints of the existing funding environment?" In the past few years, Bridgespan has had the privilege of working with a number of school developers who are tackling the challenges of replication. This set of short papers highlights some of the practical lessons they and we are learning in our work together.
Replicating Programs in Social Markets
|Since the ebbing of federal leadership in financing social welfare in the 1970's, how do the best approaches to improving social conditions get identified and broadly adopted.
Scale Pathways: Brings Asset-Building Products and Services to Scale
|Living Cities published this report to help funders better assess the elements of scale that best suited for their investments, and help practioners more effectively design projects for scaling. In cities across the country, practitioners in the field of asset-building are developing innovative approaches to expanding savings opportunities in low-income communities. Unfortunately, these programs and services rarely reach enough scale to transform entire cities, regions, states, or even neighborhoods. By releasing the new report, Living Cities hopes to generate discussion among funders and practitioners on approaches necessary for scaling.
Scaling for Social Impact: Exploring Strategies for Spreading Social Innovations
|Slides from a one day workshop delivered to nonprofits interested in exploring strategies for spreading social innovations.
Scaling Impact
|In this Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Jeffrey Bradach discusses how nonprofit leaders and philanthropists are searching for ways to scale impact beyond adding sites. When it comes to scaling, the question now is "How can we get 100x the impact with only a 2x change in the size of the organization?" This way of thinking about growth is quite new, and social entrepreneurs are still figuring out the best ways to scale impact. But pioneers have identified some tools and strategies that expand the impact of organizations well beyond what their size would seem capable of generating.
Scaling Impact: A Primer for Nonprofits
|This e-book is a compilation of observations, takeaways, and information from the Social Impact Exchange's 2010 conference on Scaling Impact. This resource is geared towards helping nonprofits think about the process of scaling, and what factors to consider when deciding whether to scale. It is designed as a primer for those who want to pursue scaling their impact.
Scaling Social Impact: A Literature Toolkit for Funders
|In 2012, with support from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the Social Impact Exchange set out to document and analyze the currently available literature on scaling, in order to both highlight the best set of resources available that are useful to funders actively pursuing grantmaking strategies around scaling impact, and to shine a light on what still needs to be studied and explored. This report is a compendium of the main findings of that work, and is arranged in the form of a funder-facing literature review with links and abstracts, along with recommendations for future work.
Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking [requires purchase]
|Many social entrepreneurs struggle to take successful, innovative programs that address social problems a local or limited basis and scale them up to expand their impact in a more widespread, deeper, and efficient way. The editors address this issue with a comprehensive collection of original papers written by leading scholars that offers the latest thinking about how to scale social impact successfully.
Scaling Social Impact: When Everybody Contributes, Everybody Wins
|This article provides an overview of challenges of scaling, strategies to overcome these obstacles, and lessons learned. The authors describe emerging mechanisms for scaling impact beyond organizational growth; they identify "open source changemaking" (or open innovation) and "smart networks" as key pathways for spreading social innovations.
Scaling Up: From Vision to Large-Scale Change. A Management Framework for Practioners
|The concept of "scaling up" has become increasingly popular as donors have acknowledged with concern the relatively poor record of innovative pilot projects in extending their reach to large populations. Recognizing this, in October 2003, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded a grant to Management Systems International (MSI)to develop a field-tested framework and set of guidelines for improved management of the scaling-up process. This framework was intended to be of direct and immediate use to those planning, implementing, and funding pilot projects and to those hoping to take the results of such projects to scale.
Scaling What Works: Implications for Philanthropists, Policymakers, and Nonprofit Leaders
|Offers insights into scaling nonprofit programs, including the need for rigorous impact analysis, more focused funding patterns, capacity building, and research and evaluation, as guidance for government investment and for partnerships with philanthropy. Nancy Roob, EMCF president, and Jeffrey L. Bradach, managing partner and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, describe the opportunities and challenges presented by the Obama administration's commitment to investing in social innovation and "what works."
Scaling Your Social Venture: Becoming an Impact Entrepreneur
|When should a social entrepreneurial venture scale? What should they try to understand about the ecosystem in which they operate? What steps can be taken to assess the organization's unique situation and determine the most effective scaling strategies? Bloom outlines the SCALERS model for building an organization's capacity to scale.
Scope, Scale & Sustainability: What It Takes to Create Lasting Community Change
|This report examines the success factors of Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCI), which are multifaceted initiatives that are funded by public sector agencies and philanthropies and seek to address complex social problems. While there has been a fair amount of discussion in the field about what has not worked, there has been less analysis of the specific practices, approaches, and mechanisms that do lead to success. This report examines those success factors as they relate specifically to the ability of a comprehensive community initiative to achieve the scope and scale required to generate community-level outcomes and to sustain those positive impacts over time. It summarizes a study of eleven CCIs funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Six Steps to Successfully Scale Impact in the Nonprofit Sector
|Erin Harris of Harvard Family Research Project discusses how nonprofits can successfully scale up an intervention, based on a
review of the literature on this topic. This issue of The Evaluation Exchange explores the promising practices and challenges associated with taking an enterprise to scale, along with the role that evaluation can and should play in that process. Scaling impact often refers to scaling programs or interventions, but ideas, technologies, skills, and policies can also be scaled.
Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation [requires purchase]
|This study provides a comparative analysis of 7 cases of social entrepreneurship that have been widely recognized as successful. The article suggests factors associated with successful social entrepreneurship, particularly with social entrepreneurship that leads to significant changes in the social, political, and economic contexts for poor and marginalized groups. It generates propositions about core innovations, leadership and organization, and scaling up in social entrepreneurship that produces societal transformation. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for social entrepreneurship practice, research, and continued development.
Social Impact Markets
|In this article, Andrew Wolk of Root Cause argues that the time has come for a social impact market -- one that fosters innovation and collaboration across the governmental, business, and nonprofit sectors to maximize scarce resources and spread solutions. In the private sector, financial markets provide the infrastructure, information, and incentives to help move capital based on performance. Similarly, social impact markets are emerging as essential mechanisms to enable individuals or institutions to provide financial, volunteer, or in-kind resources with the expectation of those resources resulting in social impact.
Talent Initiative Case Study: Nonprofit with High Performing, Vibrant Culture Builds Talent Infrastructure to Support International Growth
|Often, as nonprofit organizations grow and face new situations, or if other external factors such as the competition for talent change, human capital management practices that worked well in the past may no longer be effective. An organization's human capital management capabilities need to evolve to keep developing the leadership and organization its strategy requires. A new case study on Root Capital provides an excellent example; sustaining its success through rapid growth required a conscious effort to maintain its shared culture and build its team's capabilities. This case study looks at why an organization might think critically about its human capital management in order to preserve and continue a track record of success.
The Emerging Capital Market for Nonprofits [requires registration]
|This Harvard Business Review article states that the new generation of charitable foundations and intermediaries is changing the game by measuring the social impact of donations and offering ways to funnel dollars to the most-effective nonprofits. It sketches out how the nascent capital marketplace for nonprofits is developing. The article starts by looking at the current deficits in the sector's infrastructure.
The End of Charity: How to Fix the Nonprofit Sector Through Effective Social Investing
|The former Director of Evaluation and Knowledge Development at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation puts forth an argument for what social investing is and what the implications of the approach are for the social sector.
The Networked Nonprofit
|Management wisdom says that nonprofits must be large and in charge to do the most good. But some of the world's most successful organizations instead stay small, sharing their load with like-minded, long-term partners. The success of these networked nonprofits suggests that organizations should focus less on growing themselves and more on cultivating their networks.
The Nonprofit Marketplace: Bridging the Information Gap in Philanthropy
|This paper seeks to answer two questions: what do donors need to make smart decisions about giving, and how can the philanthropic world ensure that the strongest, most effective nonprofits get the resources they need? This discussion paper summarizes the authors' perspectives on how the nonprofit sector might improve the flow of information over the next 5 to 10 years.
The Obama Administration's Social Innovation Fund: An In-depth Interview with Director Paul Carttar
|Recently, I interviewed Paul Carttar, Director of the Social Innovation Fund--an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) intended to improve the lives of people in low-income communities. It does so by mobilizing public and private resources to grow promising, innovative community-based solutions that have evidence of compelling impact in three areas of priority need: economic opportunity, healthy futures, and youth development.
The Spiral of Sustainable Excellence
|This article is adapted from a new book by Paul Light entitled Sustaining Nonprofit Performance: The Case for Capacity Building and the Evidence to Support It, published in 2004 by the Brookings Institution Press.
Light compares a nonprofit's life to a journey up and down a development spiral. Some organizations start with a simple idea for some new program or service and then move up the spiral toward greater and greater impact, progressing through five landings, or stops, along the climb while others linger at one stage or another, perhaps for long periods, without any guarantee that they would advance. He asserts that nonprofit development varies in direction and speed, which is why it is important to understand the organic history of an organization.
The State of Scaling Social Impact: Results of a National Study of Nonprofits
|This report compiled by the Social Impact Exchange in partnership with Veris Consulting, discusses results of a nationwide survey of more than 400 nonprofits and details how practitioners view scaling, their motivations and readiness to grow, and the strategies they are deploying to achieve scaled impact. It also serves to highlight the challenges they face as well as the information and support they need to move forward.
Think Large and Act Small: Toward a New Paradigm for NGO Scaling Up [requires purchase]
|Scaling up is about "expanding impact" and not about "becoming large," the latter being only one possible way to achieve the former. The experiences of five Indian nongovernment organizations (NGOs) suggest the emergence of a new paradigm of scaling up, in which NGOs become catalysts of policy innovations and social capital, creators of programmatic knowledge that can be spun off and integrated into government and market institutions, and builders of vibrant and diverse civil societies. We detail the mechanisms by which NGO impact can be scaled up without drastically increasing the size of the organization.
Tools to Support Public Policy Grantmaking
|This article published by Grantmakers in the Arts asserts that achieving large-scale and lasting results for individuals or communities — a goal linked to many foundation missions — typically cannot be accomplished with private resources alone. Larger and more sustainable funding sources are needed to scale up those interventions and broaden their impacts. Public policy grantmaking has been described as "one of the most powerful tools available to foundations for creating real change."
Way to Grow: Charities Use Business Practices to Rapidly Expand Their Programs
|This article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy discusses the trend of young charities seeking to go to scale, including a look at what various organizations have struggled with, and their corresponding growth strategies.
What Do We Mean by Scale?
|In the past, grantmakers often focused on scaling or growing promising solutions by expanding grantee organizations or replicating effective programs in other communities. Now, more and more grantmakers are broadening their understanding of scale as a means to more comprehensively grow social impact without necessarily increasing the size of the nonprofit organizations and programs they support. Recognizing that there are a variety of approaches to scale, this briefing paper explores what can be scaled and grantmaking practices that support nonprofits in growing their impact.
Why Supporting Advocacy Makes Sense for Foundations
|This article published by Atlantic Philanthropies provides an overview of why funders should consider investing in advocacy, includes examples of successful, foundation-funded advocacy efforts, and poses key questions for individual philanthropists and foundation staff to consider before committing to funding advocacy.
youthCONNECT: A (Net)work in Progress
|Venture Philanthropy Partners launched the youthCONNECT, which combines federal funding, philanthropic resources, and the experience of six of the highest performing nonprofit service providers to improve education, employment, and healthy behavior outcomes for low-income and at-risk youth. A key component of youthCONNECT has been the development of a shared framework for monitoring outcomes. This case study describes VPP's collaborative process with College Summit, KIPP DC, Latin American Youth Center, Metro TeenAIDS, Urban Alliance, and Year Up NCR.
Zeroing in on Impact
|This article argues that in an era of declining resources, nonprofits need to clarify their intended impact. In the face of resource-allocation decision difficulty, revising the organization's mission so that it is narrowly focused on a finite set of objectives is one way to resolve it.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Colorado's movie theater shooting hasn't rekindled the gun control debate in Congress. But Democratic leaders in three of the nation's most populous states are pushing weapons and ammunitions bans.
California and New York lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make it more difficult to buy and use guns. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has proposed a strict assault weapons ban.
The suspect in the July 20 Colorado shooting, James Holmes, legally bought 6,000 rounds of ammunition online without raising authorities' attention.
Two Democrats proposed a bill that would prohibit online weapons purchases in Congress weeks after the shooting. But no action was taken. The White House says President Barack Obama isn't pushing for stronger gun control laws this year.


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Day 28. I parked near the construction mela like I do almost every day and peered over the edge. In a heartening show of solidarity, college students were pitching in to complete what trained, paid masons were struggling to do. They had even set up a helpdesk to explain the convoluted traffic plan to the public. Some pro-active Bangaloreans at last! Such a relief from the usual jaded, moaning lot!
Manipuri artists were creating sun-patterned frescoes along the walls. Painters were giving a final coat to the concrete. The errant bulldozer was smoothening out slopes in a calm, lobotomized manner. The wronged crane was nowhere to be seen. A group of 60-something gentlemen were standing atop the underpass, fingers pointing in every direction, giving a hapless supervisor a piece of their collective intellect:
"Allappa, hing craas aag katsi yen sukha bantu?" (But young man, like this crooked you build means what comfort has come?)
"Ishtu chikka bridge mel yenaiya madthiya? Shuttle-badminton aadthiyenu?" (On such a small bridge what lord you will do? Shuttle badminton playinga?)
"Haiyyo, yen katsthaaro, bidthaaro. Thale iddru upyogsalla saar ivru. Eega idara mel bussu, gissu, maNNu masi, ella band sikakond bitre devre gathi ."(Haiyyo, what they will build, what they will leave. Head is there also means they will not use sar. Now bus, giss and several similar sundry objects will come and get stuck on top of this means god is only recourse.)
"This is vy country has gaan for daags sar. Aal these peepal musht be lined up and shaat I tell you. "
"Sir ond nimisha, bande" (Sir, one minute coming), said the long suffering supervisor, and vanished into the underpass with the old biddies harumphing after him.
I studied the student helpdesk's thermocol plan (slightly soggy after a cloudburst), and noticed that my dancing fountain idea to entertain gridlocked commuters on the U-turn atop the underpass, was not included. I advised the student body to undertake installation activites immediately. Grim studently silence ensued. Nevertheless, I managed to get a fair idea of what the traffic plan is going to be, and this, I think is it (fountain optional):
But sob!!! All the action will be be over in a couple of days and I will miss it sorely! What on earth will I do now, without squint eyed supervisors, mad machinery and genteel crowds to blog about? Sniff!
I will therefore leave you with an ode composed in memory of the birth of the Cauvery Junction Magic Box Underpass, before I go away and cry myself to sleep:
Under passu
You will help to crassu
The road without laassu.
Of your ingenious planu
I am a fanu
And so is my clanu.
So my magic baaxu,
Pull up your saacksu
Because you provide irrefutable proof that Benglur raacksu.


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Jun 10, 2014
Concordia University Wisconsin head Softball coach Steve Crook and his staff will be hosting a Nike Softball Camp from July 16-18, 2014 at the CUW Softball Field. At the camp, softball players will be able to refine their skills in every facet of the game. The camp is available to softball players from ages 10-18.
More information on this excellent opportunity can be found here.


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Liberty News
Prayer summit unites pastors and ministry leaders
Liberty University is known for its training of "Champions for Christ" — but that doesn't just refer to students trying to obtain a degree.
The school has long offered opportunities for those already in the field of ministry, whether a pastor, missionary, lay leader or active church member.
Monday was the start of a three-day National Prayer Summit on campus, drawing close to 80 pastors and ministry leaders from around the country.
Daniel Henderson, Assistant Professor of Renewal and Church Leadership at LU, is serving as facilitator, along with Dennis Fuqua, executive director of International Renewal Ministries, and Phil Miglioratti, founder of National Pastors Prayer Network. They will share their own experiences and insights to help equip participants to lead prayer summits and other types of corporate prayer within their own congregations.
The summit was designed for Christian leaders to seek the Lord and His agenda for their lives, families, church and community. It consists of praise and worship time, Scripture reading, and private and public prayer— all in large and small group settings.
"This is the purest form of Christianity I have ever experienced," said Henderson in his welcoming remarks. "We don't have any sound system, no celebrity speakers, no special music—we're just here primarily in the presence of God, ministering to Him, ministering to one another, seeing how He leads us…it's all very biblical."
Henderson is Pastor of Renewal at Thomas Road Baptist Church. He is also founder and president of Strategic Renewal (one of the summit's sponsors) — a Christian organization that offers a wide array of products, seminars, and support services to assist pastors and ministry leaders.
For more information, go to the Strategic Renewal website.


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For more than 20 years, the chefs at Fairmont Hotels & Resorts have brought their own garden fresh herbs and vegetables to the plates of Fairmont guests around the world. Many of these innovative chefs led the way by creating the first restaurant gardens in their communities. Fairmont's 28 gardens are special places where produce is grown organically with no herbicides or pesticides. Small birds and butterflies flit between the bushes and flowers. In many of our gardens, Fairmont chefs have added beehives from which they harvest their own organic honey.
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Despite its location high in the Canadian Rockies, The Fairmont Banff Springs manages to maintain a dedicated space for herbs including Sorrel, Lemon Thyme, French Mint, Chocolate Parsley, Lemon Verbena, Lemon Grass, Pineapple Sage, Pansies and more. The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge's Greenhouse has been put to good use growing micro-greens, which are essentially miniature versions of greens such as arugula. The Fairmont Chateau Whistler's herb garden grows 46 varieties of herbs and other plants, including chervil, curry plant, perilla, and edible flowers such as nasturtiums, lemon gem marigolds and calendula.
The Fairmont Vancouver Airport has partnered with the Terra Nova Sharing Farm to produce an abundance of fresh, organic herbs and vegetables for the 100 Mile Menu at the hotel's restaurant, Globe@YVR. Also in Vancouver, more than 60 varieties of herbs, edible blooms, fruits and vegetables are chef-harvested daily for use in The Fairmont Waterfront kitchens. The Fairmont Empress in Victoria has a rooftop herb garden located directly above the front lobby which features an eclectic mix of sustainable Vancouver Island bounty.
The Fairmont Royal York's high-rise herbarium is in bloom 18 stories up - perfectly poised to catch all the summer's sunrays and rainfall. Summer guests at Fairmont Le Château Montebello in Quebec enjoy their dinner on the terrace overlooking the Ottawa River, amid wafting scents of rosemary, thyme, lavender, hyssop and verbena. An impressive rooftop herb garden at the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac gives Executive Chef Stéphane Modat a wealth of fresh herbs to complement his culinary creations, and in Montreal, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth uses innovative container horticulture, where the plants are watered and fertilized automatically with a drip system.
The Fairmont Washington D.C. features an herb garden located alongside Juniper, the hotel's unique urban eatery, while at The Fairmont Copley Plaza the rooftop garden includes herbs such as parsley, chives, sage, rosemary, thyme, lavender and a variety of basil. The Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park has joined forces with Amlings Landscapes to take a conventional decorative flowerbed and make it an urban herb garden. Comprised of over 100 herb plants, the garden is as attractive as it is functional.
At The Fairmont Orchid in Hawaii, fresh herbs along with green onions, rosemary, pineapples, coconuts, papayas, and bananas contribute to the hotel's bounty. The rooftop terrace at The Fairmont Dallas is home to a 3,000-square-foot organic herb and vegetable garden and greenhouse, while the pool deck of The Fairmont San Jose is the setting for an herb garden producing thyme, rosemary, sage and other herbs for the hotel's restaurants. At Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, chefs are sharing their herbs with the bartenders to create house-made organic infusions, and at The Fairmont San Francisco the iconic hotel's 1,000-square-foot onsite culinary garden is filled with lavender and herbs.
At Fairmont Mayakoba in Mexico's Riviera Maya, the Chef's Garden grows many tropical fruits such as pineapples, bananas, prickly pears, agave and a variety of chilies; but there are also bananas, oranges, tangerines, lemons, tomatoes, zucchini and more.
Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, A Fairmont Managed Hotel in Bermuda has planted fresh herbs throughout the resort's lush grounds. Much like an arboretum, each tree and herb is marked so that guests can explore the fauna on their own or through a guided tour and learn to identify the different species. Joining its fellow Bermudian property, The Fairmont Southampton has also incorporated rosemary, basil, thyme and oregano to its dishes served in the five-diamond Newport Room under the leadership of Executive Chef Christopher Chafe, who maintains a variety of zesty herbs.
The luxurious Fairmont Monte Carlo cultivates its own gardens in the fertile countryside just outside Monaco. Executive Chef, Maryan Gandon, is committed to providing locally-produced food and growing his own fruits and vegetables. At The Savoy in London, a stunning herb garden has been created in partnership with the management team of Westminster's Victoria Embankment Gardens. The gardens, adjacent to the Savoy's river side, have a seasonal harvest of herbs from Thai Basil to Lemon Thyme.
Group Executive Chef Hubert Des Marais oversees the extensive gardens at Fairmont's three East Africa properties. At Fairmont Mara Safari Club, Chef cultivates an herb and vegetable garden adjacent to the kitchen and is planning to install fruit trees as well. At Fairmont The Norfolk, Nairobi, Chef has already has planted numerous tropical fruit trees and is upgrading the herb garden so that it can provide fresh produce year-round. Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club is in the process of building an extensive formal herb garden as well, but already has a large organic vegetable garden supplying lettuce and vegetables for the hotel. There are also citrus, passion fruit and mangos planted on the property.
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Elizabeth A. Mitchell
Elizabeth A. Mitchell of Cold Spring, beloved Sister, Aunt, Friend and Teacher, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., on June 20, 1934, and died on Monday June 28, 2010.
Visitation will be held July 6 from 2pm to 8pm at Benta's Funeral Home 630 west 141st Street, New York, NY and funeral services will be on July 7 at St. Charles Borromeo Church 211 West 141st Street, New York, NY, at 10am. A Memorial Mass will be held at Our Lady of Loretto in Cold Spring on July 10 at 11am.
After graduating from Cathedral High School in 1952, she worked full time at Bell Telephone Labs and attended Hunter College evenings in her pursuit to obtain an undergraduate degree, which took her eight years.
Her tenacity and commitment to her goal to teach Latin and Spanish at the secondary level never wavered. Having succeeded in her quest, she was offered a teaching position to teach Latin and Spanish in Ossining, New York. It was during this time, while teaching at the middle and senior high school in Ossining, that she earned her Master's Degree from Fordham University.
A firm believer that learning is a lifelong process, she herself continued to study and encouraged her nieces, nephews, and others to obtain higher education and supported them in every way.
In reflecting on her more than 40 years of teaching and touching students' lives, she spent the last 7 years teaching at Bloomfield High School in NJ were she was happiest in the classroom. Ms. Mitchell was an avid supporter and patron of the Broadway theatre and many cultural and religious programs; she loved going to Alvin Ailey and was a regular lecturer at Our Lady of Loretto Church in Cold Spring NY.
Elizabeth traveled around the world and studied many cultures and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity in Mexico. She was to leave in July to teach in Nigeria before her untimely departure.


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We knew this day would finally come and it's finally here. Just in time for the end of the world. I've covered every inch of Lindsay Lohan and now I'm finally covering her bowel movements. Yes, I'm about to write about how LiLo is so full of shit that she's clogging up every toilet she squats over. In the game of gossip limbo, I've finally gotten so low that my droopy ass lips are dragging against the sand. Congratulations to us all.
This BREAKING TOILETS NEWS story was first reported by Wetpaint a day ago and then TMZ picked it up this morning. Most us know that LiLo creates some major shit bombs (see: Liz & Dick) and some source told Wetpaint that the plumbers on the set of Scary Movie 5 learned that the hard way. They say that LiLo not only trashed her trailer, but she suffocated the toilet with her freckled poops. Because the toilets in the other trailers were connected by the system, they clogged too. So Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex, Heather Locklear, Charlie Sheen and the rest of the cast had to shit in coffee cans. But TMZ has cleared this up (I'm not proud of that pun).
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Lindsay Lohan can't even take a simple dump without it turning into a huge dramatic mess involving lawyers. But whatever, I blame the toilet. It's the toilet's fault for being such a perfect place to get rid of coke when the producers and insurance men try to find your hidden stash by bringing drug-sniffing dogs into your trailer. Blame the toilet.


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from the didn't-see-that-coming deptWell here's a surprising (and important) bit of late-Friday-breaking news. A federal court has ruled that national security letters (NSLs) are unconstitutional, and banned their use. For years we've covered the use and abuse of NSLs, which basically allow law enforcement to demand (with almost no oversight) information from service providers, and which include a total gag order, entirely blocking people from talking about the letters. These NSLs are used all the time, and pretty much every time anyone looks into the use of NSLs, there's an admission that they're abused, but little has been done to fix that. Until now.
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