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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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What are the nonprofit management implications of Pay for Success programs?

ASU Lodestar Center

In June 2016 a bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives to allocate $300 million for state and local SIBs over ten years (Wallace, 2015). Business Aligning for Students: The Promise of Collective Impact. Harvard University Press. Sources: Grossman, A. and Lombard, A. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from [link].

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Karina Lungo is a graduate student in the MNpS program at Arizona State University. New York: Random House, 2009. In fact, though the U.S. but what about giving just a little more?

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. 2009) found that stipends promote inclusion, efficiency and effectiveness. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. As part of a.

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Win a copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

If the person you write about has a website, or someone has done a story about them in the local paper, it would be great if you included that link as well. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009.

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How Small Businesses Inspire Big Businesses

Eric Jacobsen Blog

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. For the small businesses we met with, growth was a nearly universal aspiration.

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6 Road Trips Reveal Critical Lessons For Business Success

Eric Jacobsen Blog

that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. For the small businesses we met with, growth was a nearly universal aspiration.

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