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How Can Nonprofits Make the Most of Overhead Funds?

ASU Lodestar Center

Building the infrastructure needed to properly support an organization as a whole is vital to the entity’s sustainability. It is therefore imperative for an organization’s survival that all costs be measured and considered in accepting grants or funding contracts. She makes her home in Tucson. Increase board engagement.

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We are what we eat

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. A student at Ochoa Elementary in Tucson proudly displays her bounty of carrots after harvest day. The garden program leaders are therefore collecting deeper data to measure the real impact of the gardens. Photo by Nick Henry).

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

The key to effectively using a dashboard is isolating the essential metrics aligned with measures of expectations. The Lodestar Center’s Nonprofit Management Institute offers great training for nonprofit professionals and volunteers in its Financial Management classes, with courses later this month in Tucson and in July in Tempe.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

Ironically, it’s the very strength of nonprofit boards’ traditional membership that is largely contributing to their weakness in terms of diversity and, as a result, poor to average success in achieving mission and building community. He grew up in Flagstaff, lived many years in Tucson and has lived in the Valley since 2005.

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

In a field that is known for the lack of capacity building and infrastructure funding, nonprofits must be strategic in how they allocate time, treasure, and talent. Build a robust technology framework”. Overhaul the governance model and committee operations. Empower the CEO and enhance staff expertise.

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Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

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But I think it's grown way beyond that, and it's become a real solid community-building tool. Because I'm sitting out here in Tucson, Arizona where there are more cows than computers. The EPA doesn't even have a model yet to measure carbon footprint reduction for reuse. I wanted to keep stuff out of the landfills.