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At AFP Lead in Houston, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance students prepare for leadership liftoff

ASU Lodestar Center

Gabriella Billett President, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Student Association at ASU. On Wednesday, October 19, a group of 12 students from Arizona State University traveled to Houston, Texas, to attend AFP Lead 2022. We spent the day grouped with new leaders in the nonprofit sector learning vital skills for leadership and management.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

Additionally, strategic volunteer leadership engagement allowed organizations to focus their outreach, said Muhi Khwaja, co-founder of the American Muslim Community Foundation (AMCF). Adjust to how it is now and use the age-old advice: Reach a donor how you would want to be reached…the medium has just changed a little,” he said.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. If the content serves your mission and programs and contributes to thought leadership, then it’s a go for LinkedIn. For example: 1. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners.

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Claiming Your Seat at the Leadership Table

NTEN

Flickr Photo: pete collins aka uniball The Houston YMCA runs a lot of youth basketball leagues, so they have a lot of volunteer coaches. Coaches who needed advice all season long, not just at the training.). Now, any normal organization would have had a meeting about the problem with the program staff, maybe some senior leadership.

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How To Be The Best At What You Do

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Bo Eason Eason shares the following great advice: Question: How can a person stay focused and not let distractions take her/him off course? In 1984, the Houston Oilers drafted me as a top safety during the NFL draft. The value of a “Never Do Again” list. How to leave behind those who don’t help you move forward. I didn’t go to prom.

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How To Be The Best At What You Do

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Bo Eason Recently, Eason shares the following great advice: Question: How can a person stay focused and not let distractions take her/him off course? In 1984, the Houston Oilers drafted me as a top safety during the NFL draft. How to leave behind those who don’t help you move forward. I didn’t go to prom. I didn’t goof around.

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Empowering Staff to Take Creative Risks

Museum 2.0

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). What advice would you give someone like me who doesn't wholly understand what is and isn't necessary to make risk-taking possible?

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