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Postcard From Alaska

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My First Trip to Alaska. The photo above is me at age 14 in Alaska with my mom. I being a typical teenager who didn’t want to be away from her friends, so I really didn’t enjoy the natural wonders of Alaska and even refused to eat a salmon dinner. Welcome To Alaska. Tags: Conferences alaska.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Serving The LGBTQ+ Community

Bloomerang

They focus their partnerships on women-led organizations that prioritize the leadership of young women and girls, Indigenous women, Afro-descendant women, LGBTIQ people, and people with disabilities. Areas served: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington. Visibility Impact Fund. PFund Foundation. Areas served: Vermont.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska. I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. There weren’t many options in Alaska, so I had to expand my search. I looked to many of my nonprofit leadership and management classes at ASU for insight. and Canada.

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Embracing risk culture in nonprofits: let’s start talking about failure

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jordyn Shafer-Frie Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Education regarding risk is built from the top down; educate staff either informally or through formal training about which goals are key. Shafer-Frie is a native of Alaska. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. What is risk culture? “.staff

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Leadership'

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Searching For The World's 2012 Fittest CEO

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As CEOs, we thrive on competition, yet it is often from the back of a desk," said Silicon Valley Leadership Group CEO Carl Guardino. Fred Uytengsu , CEO of Philippines-based Alaska Milk Corporation said, "I am taking part in the CEO Endurance World Championships as yet another opportunity to challenge myself physically and mentally."

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the founding members of the Fund, Paula Sammons, who is a Program Associate of Family Income and Assets & Leadership at the W.K. We fund personal development work that increases organizational effectiveness and encourages strong leadership. The Fund supports organizations that are using "inner work" to inform their activism.

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