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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Seth Cothrun, Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. We just saw this. Of course you do.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After Jane’s keynote, Harold lead a master class with practical exercises on how to “learn the new” or manage/design and use a professional learning network.

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Courage, Leadership, Grandmothers, Half The Sky and The Mission List

Have Fun - Do Good

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Author Jeanne Bell states, “while the nonprofit sector regularly discusses and addresses programmatically issues of race and class, recent studies reveal a sharp disconnect between our values and our leadership’s demographics” (Ostrower, 2007). Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Public Administration Review , 64(5), 529-538.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). A growing number of states have prepared the ground for the creation of such enterprises by recognizing a new class of business entities.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

The ASU Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) is one of only 56 continuing education professional development programs in the nation. [2] Current nonprofit leaders say that because of the recent downturn in the local and national economy, there is increased competition for nonprofit positions. Pollak, T. & Blackwood, A.