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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In honor of Gerry Davis, April 2018 My mentor passed away earlier this month. I have had the benefit of numerous mentors over my long career, but Gerry Davis was The Mentor. He also firmly suggested that I needed to change the name. He had graduated from Georgetown Law School just a couple of years after my dad.

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Why Vulnerable Kids Depend on Government & Big Tech Getting Data Privacy Laws Right

Saleforce Nonprofit

Early detection, coupled with robust reporting, will help law enforcement identify and safeguard potentially thousands of children in urgent need of protection. . When the tech sector does its part, children will be protected and law enforcement can continue its pursuit of offenders on the run. About the Author. Brandon Kaopuiki.

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Webinar: The One Thing You Forget to Talk About when Fundraising

DipJar

Letting your supporters know the costs of keeping water clean, mentoring children, changing laws, or helping veterans is equally important. It’s much easier to talk about your amazing work. But that’s just one component of successful fundraising communication.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

Some believe that nonprofit work is more of a calling than a career, but when one considers that this ‘calling’ is responsible for literally billions of dollars changing hands each year in our own country alone, it’s a calling of high importance. Not to mention one in which the skills set must be honed and finely tuned.

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Step-by-Step Guide To Making A Hybrid Workplace Successful

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The new book, Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace , provides a way forward to understand the changing world of work, to dispense of old biases, and to establish trust between the enterprise, its leaders, and its employees. in-person collaboration, mentoring, professional development and enhancing work relationships).

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Performance evaluation should give staff the opportunity to set a goal to make change and to help track how they are doing on delivering what it is they promised.

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8 Organizations to Support this Black History Month

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Southern Poverty Law Center. The Southern Poverty Law center also has an intelligence project working to track and expose hate groups across the country and a Teaching Tolerance Program that produces and distributes (entirely for free) anti-bias documentary films, books, and lesson plans! Learn more about the campaign here.

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