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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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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His post was aimed at not-for-profit public media; I have genericized it somewhat ). The story has to be told from a personal POV by someone I can personally relate to who uses an authentic voice. That the POV is from a “detached” observer who is above the situation and outside the story who speaks in an institutional voice.

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Book Review: “Charity Case”

Connection Cafe

Since then he has authored several books and has become a voice for change in the nonprofit sector. Compensation: We let the for-profit sector pay people a competitive wage based on the value of what they produce. But if a $5 million charity walk doesn’t show a 75% profit in the first year, then it’s considered suspect.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Perfect combination of humor, personalization, and attitude that we’ve come to expect from this holiday campaign. Happy Holidays from Wake Forest University. Sinatra: Voice for a Century. Your voice is needed — Refugee Resettlement vote approaching! 2 of 5] and it created a mini serialization in my inbox.

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Solutionary Women: Heddy Nam

Have Fun - Do Good

Coming from a background in developing and implementing programs, it was a challenge to shift to the operations side of the non-profit world. However, I am learning a lot about non-profit management and discovering more about the human rights movement both within the US and internationally. Use your voice!

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. And that’s really the point of thinking about everyone having a voice in the future we want to see together. I’m Amy Costello.

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