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What it takes to be more data driven

Candid

As a membership organization that educates, connects, and advocates for North Carolina nonprofits, the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits (the Center) looks to sites like Candid’s GuideStar for data to support their nonprofit programs and recruitment.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

This invaluable bunch works with NTEN to design core curriculum tracks, conference structure, and thematic focus. Paula Jones, Director of Technology, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. John Cluverius, Teaching Assistant/Graduate Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Our institute will also provide opportunities for attendees to create meaningful connections and potential collaborations. Collaborate with peers from across North America who understand your challenges.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Hackerspaces: DIY Science Centers for Adults

Museum 2.0

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. They're organized around members.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

1] These suits were brought by the (ironically named) Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, and they capitalized on a line of prior cases that had already begun to erode the practice. University of North Carolina) and private institutions that accept federal funds (i.e.

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