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When Looking to Diversify Your Development Office, Widen Your Lens

Bloomerang

Prior to 2011, the majority of my career was spent at small and mid-size organizations, where a large part of the funding came from foundations, corporations, and government grants. Professional training and mentoring are key to diversify your development office and fundraising jobs pipeline, and retain those already in it.

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2011 NTEN Award: Peter Campbell

NTEN

At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers; we're open and authentic with one another, we hold each other accountable and we share without asking anything in return. Leader, mentor & NPTech catalyst – this is how I see this year’s NTEN award winner. The best part is all the fun we have along the way.

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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

A study conducted by Roland Zullo and published in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Review (2011) [3] found that charitable donations to United Ways increased in localities with higher union density and in areas where unions were financially stronger. 4 (2011): 699-711. Trends in unions’ engagement with philanthropy.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

In the Games for Change Festival opening keynote speech, Former Vice President Al Gore jokingly admitted that his last video game experience was playing Pong , though he acknowledged the power of games, observing that "Games are the new normal for hundreds of millions of users. An epic win for the gaming industry?

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We now have a free, open source reading app for you called Go Read. And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. And we now have 500 highly qualified Mentor Teachers—very special people who assist their peers in using Bookshare and assist us in testing new products and features.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Fear not, nonprofit professionals! The ASU Lodestar Center , the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits , YNPN Phoenix, my fellow MNpS graduates, my coworkers, boss, friends, and professional mentors are all resources I access to get me unstuck on my quest to improve the common good. Great post, Aaron.

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Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.