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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. CA: During both my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I held a variety of part-time jobs to help defray my college expenses. My mind was a sponge.

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Social Trends for 2024

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A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” The aquarium, a nonprofit based in California, uses a fun and informative voice while keeping all of its content animal- and environmental-focused.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

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I worked for the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and I got my doctoral degree from the University of Southern California. As a teacher or a mentor, seeing my students’ growth, whether it’s getting a dream job, winning an award, or presenting at a national conference, makes me proud.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

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Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, January 8, 2016.

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Global Social Benefit Incubator Green Tech Scholarships

Tech Soup

This year the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI), a joint project of the Skoll Foundation and Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society , will focus on green technology. Now in its eighth year, the Global Social Benefit Incubator is a year-long capacity-building program for leaders of social benefit enterprises.

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Global Engagment Summit: A Light of Hope in a Gray Year

Have Fun - Do Good

Lori Hanna is one of four college students from the University of Dayton who founded Salud del Sol. These young women were just three of 80 student social entrepreneurs who attended the Global Engagement Summit last week at Northwestern University in Chicago. and business skills.

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