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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

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In my experience, Ive learned how integral life skills can be taught and nurtured by tapping into something kids love: basketball. Develop Their Court Vision In working with youth, its a good idea to have a strong, clear conception of what your organization aims to accomplish. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Relationships Matter

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Program officers play a key role in grantees’ experiences and are the main interface between foundations and their grantees. Therefore, the right program officer can make or break grantees’ experiences with a foundation. For grantees, it is about relationships with individual program officers.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: The Board Chair and the.

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In fact, it ought to be a fun, exhilarating, rewarding experience for both members of this important leadership team. Consistent communication appears to be an indicator of success, as noted by several respondents who shared the positive personal and professional development experiences emanating from this relationship.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Executive Compensation"

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We are, after all, asking our nonprofit CEOs to take on enormous tasks: things like, "can you and your organization feed the hungry?—oh I know from my own personal experience as a nonprofit student, I really had to educate myself in order to change my perspective about fair compensation. These are important questions.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

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Over the course of the day, there was so much communication going on — networking between nonprofits; sharing of ideas, knowledge, and experiences; and, maybe most thought-provoking, grantees and funders empathetically listening to each others stories and gaining a glimpse into the "other side" of the process.

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

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This balancing act becomes increasingly difficult when organizations experience upheaval—whether due to a recession, the loss of a funding source, or unexpected expenses. From collaboration to cost management, nonprofits are trying to protect their (precious little) infrastructure and enterprise while serving even more people.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving.

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In my experience with faith based communities, my main observation is that there always seems to be a group of individuals who make up probably less than 10% of the community who account for the majority of giving and volunteering. This is a very interesting topic, Pat, I would love to see more research on this.