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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2017 survey from Board Source shows that 84% of members on nonprofit boards identify as Caucasian, which does not sway far from the 2015 survey. The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review. Jen Nation is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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BIGGER! BETTER! FASTER! CHEAPER!

ASU Lodestar Center

As a knowledge enterprise, our Center finds the wherewithal to regularly produce a few core research products in our Giving and Volunteering Study , our Arizona Scope of the Nonprofit Sector , and our Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Study , along with our work on Models of Collaboration. He notes four parameters: Bigger! Get another!

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Through surveying chief executive officers from all 50 states, BoardSource reported the following key findings: Increased attendance at board meetings, with 88% of respondents reporting 75% or higher attendance.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

For this week’s post, we welcome Angela Francis from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF’s recently released State of the Sector survey findings. Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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We are what we eat

ASU Lodestar Center

Leaders of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, who have helped 30 Tucson schools––mostly public schools in low-income areas––grow gardens through its Farm-to-Child Program, understand that happy stories don’t carry much weight in the budgeting processes of underfunded schools and don’t go far with today’s results-oriented donors.

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