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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. As one who has always considered their work in the sector a “ calling ” versus a job, I’ve been lucky to have some amazing mentors. 5 Reasons Why Should Make Mentoring A Priority by Porter Gale.

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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

.orgSource

People Architecture inspires and builds innovative HR business solutions one client at a time. Once we talk through the issues, they realize that there is a current employee, who with the right training and mentoring, would be a great fit for the role. We’ve all seen that business continues, even with people in multiple locations.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

But, when considering helping young graduates transition to a career in nonprofit or even helping a mid-career professional make the leap from a for-profit vocation to one in the nonprofit sector, there are a few basics to keep in mind when mentoring a new nonprofit worker. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." A few surgeries later I found my role relegated to that of a back up and mentor to a rising star. In your encounters with business and organizations where do many of them often fall short and why might that be?

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Tag, You're IT! An Introduction for Technical Managers: Mentorship

Tech Soup

Grant Howe is VP of research & development for Sage North America's Nonprofit Solutions business, based in Austin, Texas. I've heard a lot employees and managers talk about "needing a mentor." " When I ask them what goals they are looking to accomplish with a mentor, most have no concrete answer.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

Big hearts will respond to big-hearted, authentic, clearly-articulated, specific and resonant appeals. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. to raise $1), business and/or foundation grants ($0.20 Or people simply chipped in what they could.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics.

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