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November 2010 Blog Posts (3)

A different kind of Philanthropy

I encourage you to read Sean Stannard-Stockton's article on the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He leads off with "What if foundations mostly gave unrestricted funding instead of

dictating how grantees could spend their grants? What if foundations

kept supporting grantees who performed instead of ending funding

because the “grant cycle” had ended? What if foundations ditched the

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Added by Daniel Bassill on November 30, 2010 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Consistency in Funding: Toward a New Funding Model

These past few weeks of soliciting donations for TM/C's Mapping Solutions event have been an education of sorts. At times, it's seemed that my attempts to spread the word, in person and through mail, add up to nothing more than exercises in preparation for future failures. These weeks have illustrated why perseverance is a necessary trait for anyone who wants to get into the nonprofit business.

But along with perserverance, this experience has also taught me a fundamental…

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Added by Michael B. Romain on November 17, 2010 at 1:04pm — 6 Comments

Testing an important part in SDLC

Software testing is an investigation of the code and overall product functionalities of the system done to make sure that a high quality of product is developed. There are various approaches to software development of which the most common approach is normal waterfall model or the SDLC approach.

The normal Software SDLC process includes the following process -