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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Many nonprofits whose missions have a human welfare component are addressing issues that occur as a result of a lack of inclusion and respect for the rights of people who are not part of the dominant culture in America. It is essential to many organizational missions to have a staff that is reflective of the community being served.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's called Bullseye Gives, a special Facebook page inviting folks to decide how they should allocate $3 million among ten large institutional charities, including: Parent Teacher Association Feeding America The Salvation Army American Red Cross National Parks Foundation Breast Cancer Research Foundation St.

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Leadership in Times of Transition

ASU Lodestar Center

I have transitioned markets, from the top of the runaway bull market in 2007 to the bubble-bursting plunge to the bottom in 2009. All federal employees took a survey, your department got ranked, and it was sent to you in a “Memo”: “Dear Employee, The Dept. of X currently has a morale ranking of 149 out of 153 government agencies.

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Philanthropy 2.0 Study Results Published on Mashable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable. This has been found in a number of surveys over the past few years (see Allison Fine's astute commentary on the recent Blackbaud survey here ) If we look back a year ago at donation trends on Facebook Causes, we also see the same complaint.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

They use refurbished tablet computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative program to conduct a survey of restaurants and grocery store employees and better understand food waste in Boulder. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way?

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I've seen people's concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way?