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How can effective leadership succession planning result in nonprofit sustainability?

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Training, development and resource support are often scarce within the sector, leading to increased workload and decreased training for necessary roles, which adds to the “struggle to hire and train employees,” as Paul Light asserts. Create a trajectory and people will be future-motivated. Validate your work. Collaboration.

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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

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Nonprofit leaders play an integral role in the promise of social equity. Without leadership prioritizing equitable practices, class representation suffers in these roles and lessens sector diversity. David Ross is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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How can nonprofits improve staff well-being to achieve desired results?

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Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Research Friday: The Role of Ethnic Identity in Positive Youth Development

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Arizona State University. This week Nonprofit Management and Leadership student Rosela Martinez discusses her research on the role of Ethnic Identity in positive youth development. Likewise, youth undoubtedly have a role in the fulfillment of the mission of any organization. posted by Rosela Martinez , Student. Witherspoon, D.,

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What grantmaking practices should foundations adopt to best support nonprofit organizations?

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The power and influence that flow from money, combined with the near absence of a negative feedback loop in philanthropy, result in potential manipulation of and control over nonprofit organizations,” Janice Pettey of Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy said.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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When staff are happy and feel good with not only the work they are doing, but know that they are appreciated and are shown that their work matters, the likelihood of them sticking around in their role is much higher. However, training can positively influence the bottom line. Second, better results for the organization as whole.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday Guest Post: "State of.

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Respondents came from large organizations and small, and from all sub-sectors, and include a small sample from Arizona. In Arizona, 35% of our survey respondents reported having less than 1 month of cash on hand (10% had none), which is fairly consistent with results nationally. So why do we do it? Fear not, nonprofit professionals!