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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

A board diversity policy amplifies what is expected of board members and describes how people who have been historically marginalized can participate effectively as board members, as mentioned by Kathleen Buse, Ruth Sessler Bernstein and Diana Bilimoria in their article " The Influence of Board Diversity."

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Like this article?

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Micro projects for macro impact

ASU Lodestar Center

Linton Weeks wrote an article on NPR back in 2009 on microvolunteering , and he said it right: we live in a micro world. but they also encourage volunteers to change the world from their classroom, work, and more. Like this article? posted by Colleen Dunbar , Project Specialist. ASU Lodestar Center. Get another!

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Tina Seelig's 9 Ways to Unlock Your Creativity Quotient

Have Fun - Do Good

Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. Space matters Example: Kindergarten classrooms where you can sit on the floor, move things around, be messy, work with others easily, and have space to move, encourage creativity.

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An intern's perspective

ASU Lodestar Center

Sometimes I would see the final article or post, and I could see the edits that were made, but sometimes I wouldn’t see the final draft at all. The fact that these nonprofit organizations treated me so well, at such a young age, and with such little prior experience outside of the classroom, helped shape my career path. Get another!

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A Volunteer and a Violent Stranger - A Question of Liability

ASU Lodestar Center

After the tutoring session, and in accordance with his training, the volunteer escorts the student back to the classroom. www.duganlopatka.com/articles/non-for-profit-articles/262-protecting-volunteers-and-your-nonprofit-from-liability. Like this article? Lopatka, D., Volunteer Protection Act of 1997. Get another!