September 5, 2010
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After serving not-for-profit organizations for several years and creating social networks that serve millions of users, ThePort Network continued to see a need for education, best practices and models for how to maximize the use of social media to meet organizational goals of not-for-profit organizations. While many organizations exist to serve not-for-profit organizations, such as ASAE & The Center, AFP, Chicagoland Association Forum, and NTEN, their broad focus on not-for-profits prevent them from establishing a deep focus on media.
To fill this need and to supplement the work of not-for-profit organizations that ThePort sponsors, the Social Institute was established in early 2010 to provide one venue for distributing valuable content that specifically focuses on the variety of social media issues and their implications on constituent-based organizations.
The mission of the Social Institute is to provide all types of not-for-profit organizations with a dynamic learning center and online destination on which organizations can rely for education and insight into the wide variety of disciplines contained within social media, and to re-discover traditional disciplines that are being transformed through social media. The Social Institute seeks to provide education that goes beyond fundamentals and offers original research to provide the not-for-profit community with benchmarking statistics.
The Social Institute is currently solely funded by ThePort Network, but the aim is to grow the Institute through partnerships that blend a wide variety of educational institutions, corporations, and organizations that represent the social sector to offer a trusted online resource on which constituent-based organizations can safely rely.
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