Forum One

MARCH 8, 2021

This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge because a challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but we can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity. Telling stories through images of empowerment. Amplifying the voices of female peacemakers.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fact, one of my two biggest challenges as nonprofit CEO involved convincing boards that their service demanded accountability. But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 19, 2021

However, I’m also going to challenge you: What shifts can you make to your life and your narrative that put you in an even more intentional place of control? You’ve assumed the role of the author of your life. You’ve assumed the role of the author of your life. What can you do to set yourself up to thrive? .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2021

Throughout her distinguished career working for prominent consumer goods companies like General Mills and The Kellogg Company, Crawley has been an avid champion for brand purpose — something that certainly won’t be lacking in her new role with Goodwill. To that point, what’s the biggest challenge that Goodwill faces today?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

This unique annual gathering brings together political, business, civil society, and media leaders to discuss big ideas and challenges. Whether campaigning for the future of our planet, directing documentaries, or creating content that spotlights global issues, social empowerment and environmental education are at the core of Jack’s work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

While many changes have been positive, others have been more challenging for both leaders and employees. In the trends report, 85% of those surveyed said staff retention will continue to be or increasingly become a challenge. Nonprofits around the world are still figuring out what the workplaces of the future will look like.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

Empowerment is the greatest form of impact. As they build their skills during these projects, it often translates into accelerated career growth, with almost one in five volunteers reporting that their experience led to a promotion or new role , according to last year’s Annual Volunteer Survey. Communities Thrive.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, adding to the complexity right now are the economic challenges hitting every sector. One theme that’s come up is that every employee at every company contributes to these goals, and plays a role in being more sustainable. We all have a role to play in making the world better. LG: Definitely.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. But for some, it opened doors.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

From scientists to politicians, activists to storytellers, women have always played a major role in shaping society into what it is today. With their unique grantmaking model, the Women First International Fund works closely with their grantees for six years to empower organizations to tackle years-long challenges with ample support.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

Rusty Morgen Stahl, in an article examining research on nonprofit hiring strategies, wrote for The Foundation Review, “It is reasonable to ask what has been done to tackle the talent challenge. Executive search firms are costly but can positively impact ROI for the organization if the ideal candidate is recruited and selected for the role.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Fifty-one percent of Americans reported mental health challenges at work since COVID-19 began, and 30% are fearful to report their mental health struggles to their employer. A: With many nonprofit leaders holding multiple hats and roles in their organizations, we constantly hear that they are exhausted. Compassion fatigue is real.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2016

Overcoming the barrier of trust to fly less than an arm's length away from another jet moving 500 miles per hours at 400 feet off the ground is no small challenge," he adds.

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Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

A look back at 2020 shows that unprecedented challenges often lead to unexpected opportunity. COVID-19 showcased the huge opportunity for companies, on a global scale, to play a more pronounced, proactive and impactful role, through impact innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States. … Read More

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For health and safety, or simply because programs and services are not operating, many volunteer roles across all three types of non-profits have been suspended. With less traditional volunteering roles available, how are companies supporting non-profits through employee engagement? We’re here to help!

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space. How did these groups come together?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

While challenges exist for everybody, these challenges assume more serious proportions for people who have low incomes. WORTH Trust uses a two-pronged model that addresses challenges faced by people with different abilities at various levels. Getting enough work in the initial days was a challenge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I saw myself rising to each new challenge. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Through being tested, my confidence grew. At BBBS, my work has consistently been about engaging and empowering others.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Actually, 18% of nonprofits cite having a small staff (or staff transitions) as the greatest challenge they encounter. . Helping staff grow in their roles. Your staff is expected to be more efficient, your organization more productive, and your mission more manageable all while your piggy bank is light.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

With this in mind, we recently took measures to evolve our community engagement platform, giving people access to a broad set of tools to help them engage and build purpose beyond their day-to-day roles. We work with six organizations committed to the education, employment and empowerment of women and girls across the globe.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. The Challenge of Nonprofit Leadership: Navigating a Perilous Moment. Going Upstream: Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Justice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

discuss approaches to addressing nagging challenges of the current. the opportunity it gave me to hear leaders in the sector discuss the challenges faced at the grassroots level; the. role of technology in these initiatives varied largely, but there was. one thing common to them – the huge role of people in powering the.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. With OF/BY/FOR ALL, we're playing a role in this ecosystem as an accelerant for organizational change. We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Not as a prescriptive recipe, but as a pattern. Last year, we tested out different formats. Consulting.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Critical friends are positive, constructive, and able to tease out real challenges. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They will be more likely to apply what they learned or what we call the “challenge of transfer” because they’re inspired. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

When you seriously value the diverse experience and knowledge of community members, you challenge the traditional assignment of knowledge authority. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? Social bridging?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. I asked some folks on Twitter today if they had a BI strategy and what their biggest challenges were. No one said the biggest challenge was the software. . Challenges often reside in identification, classification. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2009

"2008 is going to be a challenging year." That was the lead sentence in an article Convio Chief Strategy Officer, Vinay Bhagat wrote for the Convio Connection newsletter last January titled, "10 Online Marketing Strtegies for Fundraising in Challenging Times."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Nashville, Tennessee: Apps4Change Demo Breakfast — Nashville — September 2017. Thursday, September 21, 2017.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Fusing current and historical human trafficking tales, players of SOS_Slaves will take on the roles of both victims and social activists. To create an informative and immersive experience, goldextra took a documentary style approach in gathering data, conducting interviews, and learning about the challenges refugees and border police face.

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