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Laskey Shares Her Insights On Mentoring

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When I think about excellent mentors in the business world, I think of Debbie Laskey , who has mentored many people during her career. Debbie is passionate about mentoring. So, she''s an ideal person to answer the following five questions about mentoring: 1. Why do you enjoy being a mentor? Three months?

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Debbie Laskey On Mentoring

Eric Jacobsen Blog

When I think about excellent mentors in the business world, I think of Debbie Laskey , who has mentored many people during her career. Debbie is passionate about mentoring. So, she's an ideal person to answer the following five questions about mentoring: 1. Why do you enjoy being a mentor? Three months? Six months?

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What’s the Future of Planned Giving?

Connection Cafe

You’ve got life experience and stories to tell. You’ve mentored some people new to the industry along the way and enjoy your status as a community brain trust on all-things-planned giving. You’re itching to prove what you can do and hoping to get the resources and maybe a little mentoring on how to do it.

Giving 40
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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

And maybe not take everything so seriously because life is serious and life is hard, but we should be having a good time. He’s now one of my mentors, advisors, and dear friends. ” And I felt like, you know, I’ve committed my entire life to this project, social justice. What are your thoughts on this?”

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

They want to be involved in investigations, but they don't necessarily want to give up the next three weeks, or four weeks of their life, and that's understandable. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. He is talking about on the Web, in terms of content, but I think that also, it works in terms of life.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

Have Fun - Do Good

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. A Candy-Colored Life. Give blood.

Giving 40
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Revenge of the Female Nerds: Myth Busting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" The lecture took place at Harvard Law School , and what follows is my liveblogging of that lecture. Larry Summers is wrong (There is no conclusive research that women's brains are different). She went on to explain that the principle way people get ahead in sciences is through mentoring.