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Research Friday: Branding in the nonprofit sector

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Alex Flores , Teach For America. Often, nonprofit leaders look at brands as just a “simple visual trigger from which to develop communication campaigns rather than a strategic tool for focusing the organization.” suggest that nonprofit branding, specifically brand personality, can be used as a strategic marketing tool.

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

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Global 2000 businesses have recognized gamification as a powerful tool to engage consumers and motivate them to purchase more products. Rudy is a freelance photographer and social innovator based out of Tempe, Arizona. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio he learned to his passion was within the arts and photography.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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Peer-to-peer learning is a valuable way to teach and learn new skills without costing the organization much more than an employee’s normal salary. These tools are essential in keeping the organization running and advancing the mission.

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How can nonprofits embrace technology to achieve social impact?

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Websites and email are means that almost every organization is utilizing, but the key is to maximize the capabilities of these tools. According to Nonprofit Quarterly, “Nonprofits overwhelmingly (88 percent) said their most important communication tools were email and their websites.”

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. My Three Words.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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The ASU Lodestar Center , the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits , YNPN Phoenix, my fellow MNpS graduates, my coworkers, boss, friends, and professional mentors are all resources I access to get me unstuck on my quest to improve the common good. Second, use tools and practices. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Access resources!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

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Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. The stories were about Arizona schools and the state of education pertaining to the academic achievement of students and their schools.