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Philanthropy Cloud Adds New Volunteer Management Capabilities for National Volunteer Week

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 2008, the Points of Light Foundation and the Salesforce Foundation conceived HandsOn Connect — a native Salesforce application designed specifically to make volunteering easier for employees and nonprofits — in a series of whiteboard sessions in San Francisco. Vaccination Volunteering in Phoenix.

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How Can Nonprofit Leaders Create Effective Community Change?

ASU Lodestar Center

Aid programs may be necessary to benefit the individuals currently in poverty, but it does not provide a lasting solution (Dees, 2008). Nationally and in Arizona, systemic challenges are present. While poverty was rising, so were national high school graduation rates. percent in 2015 (National Center for Education, 2016).

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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

ASU Lodestar Center

National Council of Nonprofits (a national one). Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. Before moving to Phoenix, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits (our state association). I could go on. think tank.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Capacity building is not a one-time effort to improve short-term effectiveness, but a continuous improvement strategy toward the creation of a sustainable and effective organization” (National Council of Nonprofits, 2017). National Council of Nonprofits - What is Capacity Building? Tufts University Press. Gregory, A.

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How a small nonprofit organization survived the Great Recession

ASU Lodestar Center

The year is 2008. Nonprofits, the fifth largest industry in Arizona, historically the recipient of a most generous donor base, now wear the burden of the downturn in the national economy. Our nonprofit 50l(c)(3) child advocacy agency survived the Great Recession of 2008-2013. Donnalee Sarda, LPC , Executive Director.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. This is great news. They reported $1.2

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

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. Pollak, T.