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Why Does Investing in Staff Development Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness?

ASU Lodestar Center

Staff development, a component of SHRM, is important because “Organizations use training and development to improve the skills of employees and develop their capacity to cope with the constantly changing demands of the work environment” (Pynes, 2013, 276). How a workforce is treated will affect the overall productivity.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. Increasingly, a wide variety of training opportunities are being delivered via LMS. So what LMS should you look at?

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

We generated ideas for features like crop-specific guidance, multi-language accessibility, real-time market pricing data, and access to peer-to-peer training and resources. Emphasis was placed on making information actionable, accessible, and bite-sized to fit into the lifestyle of a small-scale farmer. Senior Consultant, Slalom.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. In the interest of our businesses, our country, and our society, we have to relearn an old lesion: focus on both profits and people ,” explains Mulligan. Mulligan : This really came into focus for me after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Find me in my “office”

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits May 19, 2008 There are some really interesting tidbits of stuff out there. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Time will tell. { Time will tell. {

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I’m hosting the carnival next week

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology I’m hosting the carnival next week April 11, 2008 (Photo by frankienose ) I’m hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants here, next week. So send in your best of the week! {

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