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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated. We just saw this. percent in 2009.

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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Harvard University Press. Princeton university press.

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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. They can also help facilitate connections to others in the industry and help you widen your professional network. In the nonprofit sector, we can look to 24-year-old Gregory Cendana.

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What are learning platforms?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. Most proprietary LMS are geared specifically toward the college/university or corporate training markets, and are thus quite expensive. What they might not be so familiar with are Learning Management Systems (LMS).

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Research Friday: Executive Directors’ Top Seven Roles for their Boards of Directors

ASU Lodestar Center

Texas A&M University. Fund development involves facilitating and negotiating optimal relationships that support the growth of assets. Brown is an associate professor in the Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. Volume 39, pages 536-546, 2010. Brown, Ph.D. Associate Professor.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica). She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. He received his BA from the University of Nebraska and his MBA from the University of Texas.

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Print Access for All: Anna Reid in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.