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How Leaders Use Four Workarounds To Tackle Complex Problems

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Let me illustrate with an example I learned from Zambia: many medicines cannot be found in remote regions of Sub-Saharan Africa because of hard-to-solve bottlenecks in healthcare, such as poor infrastructure and logistics systems. The organization I studied in Zambia worked around them by piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution channels.

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

Qgiv

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. To this point, your work with your volunteers is all procedural. Complete the paperwork.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

CauseVox

Obviously this event won’t work in warmer climates, but if you’re somewhere with distinct seasons, all you have to do is find a lake that will let you host your event. You’ve most likely already done some form of live streaming in your work in the past year or two. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause!

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Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps

Get Fully Funded

Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training. Yes, their manager likely has the big picture in mind, but who knows better how the changes in the last year transformed their world than the person doing it?

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Social Network Analysis for Non-Profits, Part II

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. Or, if you work in a large networked organization, maybe you want to understand inter-personal ties to understand work processes better. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Direct Content. Examples from Haiti. What’s Next?

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