.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. During a development retreat in February of 2020, the board discussed various governance models and how they could shift perspective to maximize CITE’s potential,” Sharon recalled. “We

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

The social impact sector cannot return to a pre-pandemic operating model because we have adapted and grown in the last year. Bring in folx with an external perspective, whether you engage your board or work with a team of skilled volunteers to complete an audit of your programming. Invest in leadership.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Leadership support is essential.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

posted by Brian Hetzer Spring 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. The answers stem from how volunteer management and key organizational leadership view volunteer retention - the ability to keep volunteers long-term. Volunteers feeling a lack of trust and faith in organization’s leadership.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

posted by Erin Larkins, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. 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. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Not to mention one in which the skills set must be honed and finely tuned. Encourage the employee to spend a few days doing information "downloads" from fellow staff members or if it’s a smaller nonprofit, from key volunteer leadership. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1]. Thank you. [1]

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

A nonprofit organization, much like a for-profit company, is only as strong as its leadership. Businesses spent an estimated $12 billion in leadership development in 2011. Businesses spend $120 per employee per year on leadership development, while the social sector spends just $29 (Callanan, 2014). 03% of the sector's $1.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

According to a survey by Landles-Cobb, Kramer, and Smith Milway (2015), the second most cited reason for staff turnover, behind low compensation, was lack of leadership development and growth opportunity. Organizations can start small, perhaps focusing on a few emerging leaders, and build structured leadership development systems over time.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2021

The social impact sector cannot return to a pre-pandemic operating model because we have adapted and grown in the last year. Bring in folx with an external perspective, whether you engage your board or work with a team of skilled volunteers to complete an audit of your programming. Invest in leadership.

Change 49

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

posted by Shannon Harrell Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Shannon Harrell is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Unlike for-profits, nonprofits must do more with less. Build a Supportive Structure. Measure Performance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Leadership training on communications styles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2018

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

Since its founding in 2002, CASE has been at the forefront of providing thought leadership for the growing field of social entrepreneurship. CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes. We are grateful for CASE’s recognition of Benetech's work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don''t have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Some of these factors are environmental and out of your control: the economy, politics, changes in leadership, and pandemics. How can you continue to coach and develop their skills? Be sure to provide opportunities for interaction between leadership, senior officers, and newer talent. Senior officers can help mentor new staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2017

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Leadership Policy Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2015

It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2013

One of my favorite lessons from the book, The DNA of Leadership , is the importance of being a developing leader. Glaser's book, The DNA of Leadership , give it a read. You won't be disappointed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don''t have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you''ve been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Of the 50 studies we reviewed just one started with the question – “ What skills, capacities are needed to help us achieve our mission? How will we build those skills and capabilities ” The rest of the studies we reviewed made the assumption that stronger organizations lead to increased impact.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

The 70 tips below make for a good list for learning how to become a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2013

Be a good role model 46. Read leadership books to learn 51. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Leadership'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

The list below is a good list for learning how to be a better leader when you don't have a lot of time to read books about leadership. And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Be a good role model 46.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. We created a network map.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 3, 2013

Be a good role model 46. Read leadership books to learn 51. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Share third-party compliments about your employees with your employees 44. Be humble 47. Reward the doers 53.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2011

Be a good role model 46. Read leadership books to learn 51. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Share third-party compliments about your employees with your employees 44. Be humble 47. Reward the doers 53.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

If not, and you want to be a more effective leader for your team at work in 2012, select one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual (..)

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Time Mentoring Exercise Policy 54

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

After graduating high school, I decided I needed to find the passion and leadership that would steer my future. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2012

Be a role model and a mentor. Your nonprofit will never grow beyond the skills of your Leaders. What I learned from EntreLeadership: If you’re a Leader, act like it! Behave with integrity. Be authentic and inspiring. If you’re not this, you suck as a Leader. A Leader inspires others. An entrepreneur takes risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

Listening, responding, and being flexibly are qualities that I observed being modeled throughout the three days of planning from project leaders – an important networked leadership skill. She has seen this in a mentoring program for women engineers.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Training & Development (Coaching and Mentoring). Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from. Depending on organizational maturity, sales ops managers can assume leadership over the following processes/areas: Generate data-driven insight and forecasts for strategy planning.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2012

Be a role model and a mentor. Your nonprofit will never grow beyond the skills of your Leaders. What I learned from EntreLeadership: If you’re a Leader, act like it! Behave with integrity. Be authentic and inspiring. If you’re not this, you suck as a Leader. A Leader inspires others. An entrepreneur takes risk.

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