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How Can Nonprofits Address the Challenges and Opportunities of Disrupting Technologies?

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Uber is not the only company debuting this newest innovation- Waymo, a Google subsidiary, and General Motors are both testing their own self-driving cars in the Phoenix area. Professionally, Stanford works as a community organizer for political issues and serves as a Governing Board Member for the Phoenix Union High School District.

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Research Friday: The gift

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continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

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I am a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at Arizona State University and work for the ASU Lodestar Center. Catholic Relief Services uses microfinancing to create alternatives to migration, and Solace International , headquartered in Tucson, invests in social entrepreneurship. In fact, though the U.S.

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Nonprofit as Shibboleth

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Maybe these alternate spellings are all the same to you, and that’s fine. Some of my students are going to use the hyphen. Before moving to Phoenix, he was a Senior Research Associate in the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. Should be interesting, anyway. Or non-profit. think tank.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: "If you have to leave, why did you.

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Tan , Public Allies Arizona Program Manager ASU Lodestar Center As Ive done every March for the past four years, I participated as a Team Leader in United Ways Alternative Spring Break (ASB) in the metro Washington D.C. Since 2006, nearly 2,000 students have participated in ASB, volunteering over 64,000 hours of service. Central Ave.

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Sustaining Innovation Book Discussion Part 1: What Does it Take Innovate Naturally and Frequently?

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But overall, I found his approach effective and strongly preferable to the common alternative--an anthology of case studies devoid of connections or overriding conclusions. By far the most educational stories in the book concern the Phoenix Group, a housing/economic development non-profit that imploded over the course of Light's research.