http://www.theagitator.net/online-activism/want-to-start-a-nonprofit-think-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=want-to-start-a-nonprofit-think-again Fundraising and advocacy strategies. Trends, tips ... with an edge Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:21:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.theagitator.net/online-activism/want-to-start-a-nonprofit-think-again/comment-page-1/#comment-24225 Brad Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:11:19 +0000 http://www.theagitator.net/?p=1257#comment-24225 It is a shame that Kristin didn't do the search correctly. The way she did it, Google simply compiled a search of every site offering any of those words. If you want to see the correct number, you need to do it as a search string in quotes. That returns only 99,000 sites offering help in exactly those terms. But factually, neither of these searches get at the underlying issue that seems to bother her. There are a lot of nonprofits - but being upset about the Google-return on a string of words in not going to get at the issue. Perhaps a more constructive use of space would have been to focus on suggesting her generation begin to interact with other people before starting organizations. It is a shame that Kristin didn’t do the search correctly. The way she did it, Google simply compiled a search of every site offering any of those words. If you want to see the correct number, you need to do it as a search string in quotes. That returns only 99,000 sites offering help in exactly those terms. But factually, neither of these searches get at the underlying issue that seems to bother her. There are a lot of nonprofits – but being upset about the Google-return on a string of words in not going to get at the issue. Perhaps a more constructive use of space would have been to focus on suggesting her generation begin to interact with other people before starting organizations.

]]> http://www.theagitator.net/online-activism/want-to-start-a-nonprofit-think-again/comment-page-1/#comment-9744 Kristin Ivie Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:54:12 +0000 http://www.theagitator.net/?p=1257#comment-9744 Thanks for the raise - I'll take it! We're glad to hear you find our discussions valuable, let alone, invaluable. It's been really interesting to watch this conversation take shape, so I hope the debate can continue here as well. Thanks for the raise – I’ll take it! We’re glad to hear you find our discussions valuable, let alone, invaluable. It’s been really interesting to watch this conversation take shape, so I hope the debate can continue here as well.

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