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Embracing risk culture in nonprofits: let’s start talking about failure

ASU Lodestar Center

The nonprofit sector is in a delicate and unique position compared to the for-profit sector. Amazon took over 14 years to turn a profit with many of those first years spent entirely in the red. Sure, it may never be able to operate in a manner that allows for 14 years without some kind of profit.

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A Technology Assessment Connects Intention and Ability

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My writing about digital leadership often focuses on values and attitudes. Keep Pace With Competition There was a time when associations ruled their universes. Competition from for-profit companies, particularly in the professional development arena, is growing steadily. Now, the aliens have landed.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Honestly, whether you’re in nonprofit or for-profit work, remembering the reason you’re serving a particular group is vital to moving the organization forward. The strategy may be to remove the staff member and replace them with someone with different experience - or maybe a better attitude. What will you do differently this year?

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, a group interested in understanding the sentiment towards diabetes on social media completed an analysis that discovered some immediate results that may “be relevant for developing better public health strategies and for promoting a positive and constructive attitude” about diabetes online. AI fundraising.

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Rapid Realignment Teaches Leaders How To Adapt And Stay Focused

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Growth and profits are surely the ultimate aim of every business organization, but they are outcomes of succeeding with the Main Thing. Corporate culture is the product of four dynamically related components : attitudes, beliefs, values, and behavior. Good bosses understand the value of giving subordinates a long leash.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Don’t Abuse Self-Care at Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This assessment from the University of Buffalo Self-Care Starter Kit helps you identify how some habits create more stress that might lead to burnout. But when this becomes the cultural norm, it is not effective. The research shows that when we overwork, we are way less productive, and it is also starts to impact our attitude and health.