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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

Find a mentor. Carving out your own career path is easier when you have an example to follow. He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. Mentors can make introductions for you and give you key insights that would take you years to learn on your own.

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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

4 The American Red Cross is a great example of trust building across donor and client lines. One example of a nonprofit organization rebranding in order to create a more positive impact on the community they serve is the Arizona based nonprofit formally known as Phoenix Youth At Risk. Research done by Venable et al. 4] Keller, E.

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The Intangible Rewards of Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Take me, for example — my object was a tin whistle (a more portable representation of my primary instrument, the flute).

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Millennial Innovators: Meet Ecoviate, GiveMob, and Scholarships Expanding Education (SEE)

NTEN

They''ve also launched the Ecoviate Mentorship Program - so far it''s very informal, they''re mentoring other youth around the world. Ideation process: "I''ve always identified as an environmentalist and an inventor" – Param will sketch something out and then reach out to his mentors to develop it in a pragmatic way.

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How to Conduct a Quick Tech Plan

Tech Soup

You may well have pressing needs to budget for like upgrading from Windows XP and Office 2003 before April 2014 and getting newer IT equipment, for instance from TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative , that already has Windows 7 and Office 2010 installed. SCORE is a very useful resource for workshops and free mentoring.

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Book Reviews

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# I’ll have to look for it.

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? It is their stories and examples and lessons that really resonate with me,” says BJ Wishinsky, who most recently led a chat called Calling All Calls to Action. Ways to plug in Intrigued?