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3 Unexpected Lessons Nonprofits Learned from the Pandemic

Saleforce Nonprofit

One executive director in the U.S. There are so many things happening in the field,” one German nonprofit director tells us, adding that technology has allowed their nonprofit to “bring more people to the field than we would have been able to do physically.”. Senior Director of Nonprofit Insights at Salesforce.org. .

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yet, nonprofit leaders and managers will have to carefully assess, prioritize, and take risks with their finances, which will likely require new skills and bold adaptation to continuously changing circumstances. For example, 80% of respondents said their organization’s board of directors was diverse.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Priceless Board Members

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jessie Singer Executive Director, American Lung Association in California A philanthropist recently asked me, knowing that I’d be looking for new Board Members soon, what types of people I was in need of. He mentioned business CEOs, lawyers, university presidents, HR professionals, marketing gurus, etc.

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Member Round Up: A busy September with new research, a cure for website obesity, and world literacy day

NTEN

No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy ''s upcoming webinar, Bringing Entrepreneurial Skills into Grantmaking Practices , will explore ways in which you can employ the skills and practices used by social entrepreneurs.

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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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MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Briefing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ET Panelists and influential audience members will include: Dr. Mizuko Ito , Research Scientist, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, studying new media. Eric Zimmerman , CEO and founder, gameLab, working to develop new games to support media literacy and design skills in young people . - 12:15 p.m