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A Guide to bbcon 2022 Virtual for Higher Education Professionals

sgEngage

Using Blackbaud CRM and Microsoft Power BI predictors, they’ll describe using AI to identify new prospects and improve the retention of existing program members. Skills UP: Shoring Up Tech Skills in Your Organization. Ashley Smith—University of Southern California. Christine Prete—Diocese of Trenton.

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Survey-Backed Insights to Keep Your Nonprofit Ahead of Changing Workplace Trends

Saleforce Nonprofit

They’re looking for creative ways to retain staff, keep them happy and engaged, deal with burnout, bridge skills gaps, and implement new technology to help it all come together. Staffing, Retention, and Burnout. In the trends report, 85% of those surveyed said staff retention will continue to be or increasingly become a challenge.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

First, it helps with staff retention rates. 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. Often, the board members are multifaceted individuals who have many different skills and experiences.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

Growing Pains Founded in 1926, AbilityFirst (formerly known as the Crippled Children’s Society of Southern California or CCS) was created to help children with polio and other physical disabilities, and I was hired in 1998 to turn around this disability service organization.

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Volunteerism Keeps Proving Its Value (Especially When Skills Are Given)

Connection Cafe

If you’re a philanthropy geek like me who loves to monitor what data tell us about engagement and investment in what I consider a part of our collective moral fabric, you’ll be even more thrilled to hear that some states in the US are even surpassing $23.56 (kudos to Massachusetts, California and New York for setting the pace we all need to run).

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. Experience Matters is a nonprofit organization that capitalizes on the time and talent of older adults (age 50+), who are seeking paid or unpaid positions that apply their skills to social purposes. CDS Working Papers 09-12. McBride, A.,

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Purpose at PIMCO | The Power of Partnerships & Knowing Your Why

Connection Cafe

This broader collaboration enables us to better assess employee engagement and retention as an ROI strategically linked to PIMCO’s core business strategy, and as a tool to attract and retain top talent. Tools of Engagement. Purpose at PIMCO operates through three distinct pillars: PIMCO Gives, PIMCO Acts and PIMCO Advocates.

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