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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

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Not to mention one in which the skills set must be honed and finely tuned. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Today, she is proud to lead the Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an organization new to Annual Funds. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit. Get another!

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

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Coordinator & Volunteer Coordinator, ADL Arizona and GLSEN Phoenix. When I think back on my time with ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program, many different memories and candid moments pop into my mind. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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Ally Shares Her Experience in Program

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I create dances, curriculums and spaces for people of color to understand their identity, passion and purpose — these are lessons others tried to teach me but failed because they were more concerned with the box I did not fit into than the freedom I can have outside the boundaries of that box. I am Black and Mexican and I am a creator.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

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In my experience, Ive learned how integral life skills can be taught and nurtured by tapping into something kids love: basketball. For Team MPhasis, its important to not only teach kids through sports, but to also incorporate our religious beliefs into our work. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? All You Need is Love.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

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She is currently the President of the Sigma Kappa National Housing Corporation and previously served as President & CEO of Volunteer Southern Arizona, Executive Director of the Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation, and Director of a school-based mentoring program serving 22 districts in eastern Iowa. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: American Humanics: An Elite Group

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Her words to the graduates were, "You never know where your skills will take you, so learn all you can about whatever you are interested in doing." I wondered, had I done enough, given the right advice, been a successful coach and mentor? Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona.

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