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Public Policy and SOX: Pricey or Priceless!

ASU Lodestar Center

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. It is not often that public policy intended for the publicly traded-corporate world directly impacts the nonprofit corporate world. A decade has now gone by, and, according to research by Tamara G. in Residence.

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What does a Purpose-Driven Company Look Like?

Saleforce Nonprofit

Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. While CVS lost $2 billion in annual cigarette sales in the first year of its new policy, its pharmacy sales jumped. In 2014, what was then called CVS Pharmacy became the first U.S.

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). Telling the wrong story. In it, Kevin McCarthy called for a new way for the arts to describe itself by evaluating the “intrinsic impacts” of art. Evaluation can be painful. Sources: Brown, A.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Book Tour ?. ?

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Making the Case for Advancement Services

Robert Weiner

It needs to get data into and out of the database in a timely manner, produce accurate reports, respond to requests, anticipate needs, keep up with changing technologies and policies, and all the other things I mentioned in Ingredients of a High Performing Advancement Services Shop. Support for Constituents.

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Great reads from around the web on September 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. " Tags: roundup bookmarks broadband casestudies evaluation list postalicious report research resources volunteering.

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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Katherine Cecala (2016), the current President of Junior Achievement of Arizona, shared research revealing that the human service subsector tends to have more women as a whole, yet Caucasian men tend to hold the majority of the higher-level positions. Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Public Administration Review , 64(5), 529-538.