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Can love change the world? I hope so!

Amy Sample Ward

Regardless of what work you are doing – campaigning for political change, providing services to your local community, educating others, or anything else – would it look different, would it feel different, would it operate differently if love was the central message? To Mama With Love. I see this lesson in the work of 350.org.

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Providing education for incarcerated students

M+R

We would focus on promoting research and elevating awareness about the benefits of postsecondary education in prison and the need for incarcerated people to access Pell Grants, all while trying to change state policies to provide more financial support and generate momentum for federal action. Two years in, we expanded our focus to the U.S.

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How can nonprofits improve staff well-being to achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits need to invest in practices that enhance and develop skills, create career paths and take work-life balance into consideration. Well-being requires organizations to commit to organizational change, which increases impact while building positivity. Human resource practices play a vital role in making employees feel valuable.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” is 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award Finalist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World co-authored with Katie Delahaye Paine and featuring a foreword by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen has been chosen as one of four finalists for the 2013 Terry McAdam Book Award of the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.

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Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Terry McAdam Book Award was established in 1989 to commemorate the life and work of New York Community Trust Vice President, Terry McAdam, who devoted his life to improving the nonprofit management field and urged the field to write about the sector to share knowledge and build the social change movement.

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Seven Principles To Keep You Present, Grounded And Thriving

Eric Jacobsen Blog

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). The book is a timely guide for not only how to achieve a better life, but also how to become a better leader. It is life. It is messy.

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Seven Principles To Keep You Present, Grounded, And Thriving

Eric Jacobsen Blog

O’Neil is the CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a global sports and entertainment company that includes the Philadelphia 76errs (NBA) and the New Jersey Devils (NHL). The book is a timely guide for not only how to achieve a better life, but also how to become a better leader. It is life. It is messy.