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What leadership practices help nonprofits achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

As an Israel Defense Forces veteran, I relate to Jim Collins’ West Point talk about the ethics of service, commitment to a cause bigger than yourself, the understanding that you could die while serving and meaningful insight that the pursuit for greatness is a journey that never ends.

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You can learn something from everything

ASU Lodestar Center

I attend Sabbath services almost every Saturday morning at Congregation Beth Israel. They each played an active part in the service, sharing their reasons for continuing their religious education and their hopes for the future, saying the prayers and reading from the Torah. Apply for Public Allies Arizona today!

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. among many other publications. We had a very Manichean, "which side are you on?"