NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. It was beautiful to see how much confidence they had but we are also still all learning.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Upload your documents to DocumentCloud to learn more about what you just wrote. Ah, the timeless wisdom of robot Whitney Houston: " Teach them with technology and let them lead the way." Oh, and National Geographic posted a wonderful map showing the top surnames distributed across the country. Want to create more data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, May 6, 2011 Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona nonprofit sector! It was a great week for learning and connecting, with over 500 people attending the Phoenix Business Journals Fourth Annual Nonprofit Business Summit , which engaged nonprofit and business leaders in dialogue and educational sessions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. Kids know they can expect two things from us: sports and God.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. Scheduled for May 3-8, 2011, the site invites participants to create socially shareable “heartspaces&# that include words, videos, photos & investments in honor of mamas they love. Learn more!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, March 16, 2011 How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man posted by Michael Soto , 2nd Year Fellow – Public Allies Arizona / Arizona Citizens for the Arts Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to serve my country. I hope to teach my own children, someday, all that I’ve learned about service and citizenship.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I was amazed to learn about the ways in which AI has transformed itself over the first half century of its existence, as one of the preeminent human rights group of our time. Earlier this year, I spoke at the 50th Anniversary Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International (AI).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, May 20, 2011 Research Friday: The Board Chair and the CEO: When is a Team Relationship a Team. Some of the responses (paraphrased): I have learned something from each of our Chairs. to learn external focus. As Chairs have learned about the CEO job, they have prioritized more time for Chair service.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Beth Kanter actually attended an event -- and learned something! usually doing the teaching ;). Unconference where Beth did some learning at, see the summary Allyson Kapin provides over on the Care2 Frogloop blog. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Download the complete 2011 Millennial Donor Study findings and recommendations by visiting millennialdonors.com. They get emerging media and are ready to teach. 7 Things I learned about Engagement from Mr. Youth by Katya Andresen. Millennials have the potential to bring a lot of value in leadership to nonprofits from within.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 27, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 27, 2011 All You Need is Love. posted by Sarah Hipolito , Program Coordinator, Senior ASU Lodestar Center If Ive learned anything in my brief six years, 10 months, and 27 days of marriage, its that, in addition to love, communication is key in growing and maintaining a good relationship. Great post.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Creating, Building, and Sustaining Nonprofit Communities posted by Hannah Humphrey , Public Allies Arizona Alumna / Outreach Coordinator, Xico What does it mean to be a community organization? What Ive learned from Chandler is that community is not a place — its a practice. Keep up the good work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

From 2001 – 2011, nonprofit growth represented 25% of economic growth; and for-profits? And mistakes are critical to learning. And future leaders need to try new things, foster innovation and learn from what works and what doesn’t. 4) Acknowledge and celebrate lessons learned from failure. Let em sink in.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2012

According to the 2011 Daring to Lead report , 34% of nonprofit executives will depart within 2 years. You might be surprised to learn that your for-profit leadership peers were pegged at lower attrition, only 25% according to the Corporate Executive Board. ” Leadership transitions are painful but they can teach us a lot.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 19, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Better Together: Collaboration and Nonprofit Networking posted by Jessica Sadoway , Nonprofit and Social Media Blogger Just last Friday, The Collaboration Prize announced its third annual winner (congratulations to the Adoption Coalition of Texas !). Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. What leadership skills did you learn playing football that then served you well as a Marine? October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business."

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Disclaimer Thursday, February 17, 2011 $250,000 Collaboration Prize Finalists Announced posted by Jill Watts , Director of Capacity Building Initiatives ASU Lodestar Center Today the Lodestar Foundation announced the eight Finalists for the 2011 Collaboration Prize. However, we still have much to learn. All You Need is Love.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. Is it helping people learn solutions to a social issue? Did it increase our organization’s awareness?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

February 9, 2011 5:04 PM Travis Butterfield said. February 24, 2011 2:38 PM Raphael Card said. I think more people should learn about this donorschoose program. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? I have used DonorsChoose.org and it works! Thanks for infoming me about it. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2014

I retired from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the end of 2011 after 25 years of service. Learning the law will keep you busy for a little while. I spent the last 18 years of my career examining nonprofit organizations of different types.

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NTEN

MARCH 17, 2011

[As part of the 2011 NTC, a group of attendees are documenting their experiences at the conference on the NTEN Blog.] Some of us crossed over the divide when we merged our marketing/administrative/teaching/et al careers into tech jobs. OK, we admit it, many of us are accidental techies, but who'd have predicted that WE LOVE WHAT WE DO!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-Business Relationship posted by Laura L. Karen: I was motivated to participate in this workshop because I wanted to share what Ive learned over my two decades working in this field. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Bush, Ph.D.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

Thanks for providing this fantastic hub for learning and sharing NTC! Learning that other non-profits were working through the same issues my organization is going through, whether it be applying technology, buy-in from stakeholders, etc. It was a wonderful learning experience. I was a bit starstruck! We don’t mean to brag.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game. Learning Science by Design.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, May 27, 2011 Research Friday: Social Media is all around us - How do we embrace the trend? This means Ive had to learn to share leadership to keep up with the demands brought about from new media. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? However, times have changed my perspective. All You Need is Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. Non-profits are told to learn from business; in insightful and humorous book, Lublin, over at DoSomething.org , tells the for profit sector what it can learn from non-profits, particularly about how to thrive with virtually no money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

Have Your Metrics In Hand: Says Marnie, “We found the meeting format to work well so that we were better managing the main messages of the content, differentiating across properties but, most important, kept a team bought into the goals and able to make quick changes based on what we learned from metrics. My answer: Yes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. When Goodwill was planning their mobile site, they knew from their web analytics that their most popular feature would be the store locator; more than 7 million visited the Goodwill website in 2011, and more than 6 million of those visited the locator.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? April 1, 2011 4:47 PM Stephanie La Loggiasaid. April 5, 2011 11:07 AM Mark Rubin said. April 7, 2011 6:42 PM Travis Dennee said. April 11, 2011 7:53 AM Travis Dennee said. April 11, 2011 8:02 AM Stephanie La Loggiasaid.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2011

In this way, we hope to preserve some of these important insights and observations, keeping the topic fresh and relevant, as we attempt to implement what was learned into new and innovative paradigms of the funder / grantee relationship. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, February 25, 2011 Research Friday: "Executive Compensation" posted by Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. I was pleased to learn that Daring to Lead will be published again this year, drawing on data that was collected from thousands of nonprofit CEOs across the country in the fall of 2010. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 17, 2011 American Humanics: An Elite Group posted by Lyn McDonough , American Humanics Program Coordinator Senior, ASU Lodestar Center "The few, the proud." The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

He was promoted to Director of Sales in 2009 and took over as President in 2011. The book is about sharing our learnings from eight years at Zane Benefits with all small businesses and educating employees on the advantages of individual health insurance. Also, the most successful athletes have learned the benefits of being curious.

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