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The voice and vision of the volunteer

ASU Lodestar Center

Being able to fully utilize volunteers and truly benefit from their skill sets can be addressed with the help of a volunteer manager. This can be easily addressed by insuring that each person’s skills are utilized to his or her utmost ability.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. Hope FM in Port Huron, MI and KAWC Colorado River Public Media in Yuma, Arizona.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." 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.

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Strategies to diversify nonprofit boards to yield success

ASU Lodestar Center

This awareness may need practical steps such as diversity trainings and workshops to build empathy and understanding for the need of the community. It allows us to see what the current diversity and skill is set of the board. To bring these values to action a task force can be set up to prioritize the process.

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The importance of professional development in the nonprofit sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Additional training to individuals can also assist in expanding their knowledge on certain subjects that may be beneficial to them in the future. Because of these updates, professional development courses/training had to be created and administered to airport personnel so that they could effectively continue to use the machinery.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

[2] To better understand the skills and knowledge needed by nonprofit professionals, we conducted a needs-assessment study based on surveys of NMI instructors, advisory board members, alumni, and participants in NMI courses since 2007. The ASU certificate is a credential valued by many nonprofit employers in Arizona.