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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

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A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.”

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

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Data to pinpoint needs in specific communities Unfortunately, government survey data does not accurately represent “hard-to-count” at-risk populations who are less likely to speak English or to trust the government—which includes many of the people nonprofits like CASL serve. For example, aggregated data from the U.S.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Is it possible that your community has doubts about the organization’s credibility? ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. Could the issue be trust?

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Seven ATLIS Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss

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Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Blackbaud’s 2024 ATLIS sessions include: 1. For more information about the conference or to register, CLICK HERE.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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What are advantages to collaboration between nonprofit and for-profit organizations?

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The growing magnitude and complexity of socioeconomic problems that face societies throughout the world has generated the urgency for cross-sector collaboration to emerge. Examining these cross-sector collaborations reveals advantages for nonprofit leaders seeking greater impact. In Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, James E.

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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

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This is a unique time for the association community. Technology offers plenty of collaboration strategies that don’t require people to be physically present. For example, don’t tell applicants that you have a culture of empowerment and self-direction, when the reality is that most projects require multiple levels of approval.