ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 30, 2019

Marcia Mintz, the CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix (BGCMP), defined a high-performance culture as, “When everybody at every level understands where their role fits into the organization and the plan to get where they want to go.”. The people on the bus should be from various backgrounds and working styles.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

Honestly, whether you’re in nonprofit or for-profit work, remembering the reason you’re serving a particular group is vital to moving the organization forward. What will you do differently this year? Working with key staff and board members, identify areas of improvement as well as past winning strategies. Mary's Food Bank.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 4, 2017

The bread-and-butter funding that enables our work may dissipate due to any number of external factors. So why do we think we’re different from anyone else? The difference is that nonprofits have learned the incorrect lesson that more money is always available so long as we do more fundraisers. Nonprofits are no exception.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 7, 2019

Prior to Public Allies I was a first-generation college student pursuing my Associate of Arts (AA) degree at Phoenix College, working part-time with the City of Phoenix Head Start and being a mother to my wonderful child. After a while working in my community and serving, I yearned to continue to grow and be challenged.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 23, 2013

Greater Phoenix. Finding gainful employment in the nonprofit arena is different than landing a job in other industries. As Gassner Otting writes: Working for a non-profit is like starting a marathon. As GPEC's manager of Human Resources, Miner works as a strategic partner in maintaining employee relationships.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. This point underlies all of the best practices and organizational culture required for successful community-driven social impact work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Phoenix Symphony. I make my living working for an organization that is used as a metaphor in business writing all the time – the symphony orchestra. Because the show – the performance work that an orchestra does – is a pretty amazing feat of human coordination. In 2002 he joined the Phoenix Symphony as Principal Clarinet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture. Nonprofit organizations have the ability to connect and mobilize individuals. There is no golden standard. 2009, May 1).

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Using different terms to mean the same thing confuses the story. We all have very lofty words in our mission statements, but how do you know your work is being “provocative”, “challenging” or “innovative”? As artists, we can be very insecure about our work. How do you measure that? The knight on a white horse arrives.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2012

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. or less per day, every dollar makes a tremendous difference. Food for the Hungry is the largest, and there are many others, such as Borderlinks and Phoenix Sister Cities. In fact, though the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Therefore, conducting these time studies will help organizations better allocate their employees’ time based on the work they do in a typical work-week. This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector. Harold, J., & & Berger, K. Retrieved February 12, 2017, from [link].

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

In July 2015, two of the earliest SIBs in the US reported markedly different results from which a nonprofit manager can learn. Harvard University Press. and Phoenix, Arizona. and Phoenix, Arizona. Vera Institute. Retrieved September 22, 2016, from: [link].

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 29, 2013

We worked on finding sites, and then mailed out 15 letters. We worked up a contract and the church agreed to host us for two years, with the option of a possible future renewal. After getting all of the safety things in order, I met with the Alaska State Troopers and worked out an exchange system for the youth in need of shelter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Even as different stakeholders demand their share of responsiveness from the organization, improving organizational effectiveness should appeal to most nonprofit stakeholders. Natalia Winberry completed her undergraduate studies at Beloit College in 2007 and started her career in 2008 as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Phoenix, Arizona.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

The NLA program was originally founded as the American Humanics program at Arizona State University in 1980 with the support of the Phoenix Rotary Club 100 and local nonprofit organizations. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Each had to look to our individual motivations, and come up with self-satisfying answers for doing what we do: How devoted are we to the work we do? If one’s work as an executive director of a nonprofit organization is a vocation, a “calling,” the answers to the following questions are likely to be YES!: Is this a job or a vocation?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This video really helped me get an idea of who Charles Best is, and how his philanthropic website, DonorsChoose.org , is making a huge difference in the lives of school children around the country — and even around the world. I have used DonorsChoose.org and it works! He definitely is "character approved" in my book. Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

Requirements not only include courses towards their degree program, but also 30 additional hours of coursework and 200 Career Field Exploration (CFE) hours — designed to assist students in "trying out" different nonprofit organizations and the jobs within them before they make any decisions about full-time employment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N. Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

In response to the growing needs of professional nonprofit managers, numerous university-based nonprofit management education programs have emerged, but few offer continuing education for nonprofit professionals. Responses from NMI students and alumni reveal that 94% say NMI courses are relevant to their daily work. Pollak, T.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2011

The Forum, which was presented by the ASU Lodestar Center and the Arizona Grantmakers Forum , enabled the two groups to meet on equal grounds and see things from a different perspective. Nice work Kayla. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs Thanks for sharing!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

How do all these other people that I engage with also see this place, how do we coexist, and how can we work together to make it more fun, effective, and just for everybody? How long have you worked at the ASU Lodestar Center? To me, that means new ways of looking at the world around you. What surrounds me?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

The ones that did not get the message are either working under a rock, willfully noncompliant, or closed up without telling the authorities. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix. Boxes - do you have any insight as to what percentage of these nonprofits might have a different address than the one the IRS has?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

A particularly big problem is Arizona's elephant, Banner Health, which we locate at just it's Phoenix address. it's the personal, unquantifiable human connection that usually makes the difference. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

And of course, we are more likely to know people like ourselves than people with genuinely different backgrounds and perspectives.”. Garcia, a former political reporter, has taught at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and at the University of Arizona School of Journalism.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2011

In each of these relationships we are different, new in some way." [1] ASU is a research university that puts significant effort into true academic research. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs We welcome your comments and feedback. So, are we accomplishing this goal?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

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. I worked with a locally founded (and inspiring!) In fact, the NGO was led by them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Not only is the Collaboration Prize the creation of the Arizona-based Lodestar Foundation, but Arizona is also home to many great examples of nonprofit organizations working together to be more effective and put their missions first. Congratulations to the 8 Finalists and best wishes to all nonprofits doing this challenging work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

That’s a pretty big difference, between 33 and 25. Rather, the differences are mostly due to how we collect the information. What we ask and how we ask it makes for a big difference in estimates. The size and the money behind it make a big difference in generating a sample that the Census Bureau can really stand behind.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Remember Samantha, the smartphone OS in the movie Her that Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with? The Obama administration means to make universal broadband happen, and it has just one year left to do it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, how about this one: "Make sure these kids stay busy and have fun; but what we really need is for them to be successful in school, contribute at home, and work effectively with people from different cultures towards a better world." Everyone that works with a nonprofit CEO should read this report. Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

In the end, he or she comes to see the world differently — and support social endeavors — because of the relationships he or she has formed with the people struggling to make a living and striving to make a difference. Strive to put a hammer in everyones hand, and get them connected with each other, working together. *

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 I learned that while one person may be inspired by the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights, another may be angered by it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2017

Cross-sector collaboration can be defined as partnerships between nonprofit, private, and government entities working together towards mutual goals to produce change (Simo & Bies, 2007). In conjunction, knowledge of why systems approach can be necessary to provide universal cohesive services. When the U.S. Kaljunen, L., Simo, G.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

It is hard to express in one blog my entire week-long experience with nonprofit leaders from Japan, Syria, Uganda, Nigeria and different parts of the United States at the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 I learned that while one person may be inspired by the UN Declaration of Universal Human Rights, another may be angered by it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 7, 2018

The one-size-fits-all mentality may work with buying a hat but it is not an effective way to attract new donors to your nonprofit. Become crystal clear about the characteristics that make your organization different or better than other organizations. These individual donors will want to support your organization and its mission.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Many leaders are working towards collaboration; however, “larger cultural contexts remain firmly anchored to the myth of the heroic individual leader” (Senge, et. Often times, gaining knowledge from these clients may be difficult, especially when working with youth or homeless. It is essential. United States Census Bureau.

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