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#BBCON 2016| What’s in It for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

So I went ahead and picked out some of the top sessions for Arts & Cultural organization to make planning your conference journey just a little bit easier. Maximizing Engagement at Your Arts & Cultural Organization – Learn how you can move your visitors from “hello” to “I do” with a personalized journey for your supporters.

Arts 20
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How Can Nonprofit Organizations Build High-Performing Employees?

ASU Lodestar Center

Create a culture that retains employees. Create a culture of learning by having regular all-staff training or finding readily available online training platforms. To yield the highest employee engagement, use public recognition and direct recognition of employees. Recognition.

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We are what we eat

ASU Lodestar Center

A student at Ochoa Elementary in Tucson proudly displays her bounty of carrots after harvest day. In 2013, the Food Bank partnered with the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health to begin the measurement process. Looking to build a culture of evaluation within your organization?

Tucson 40
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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

ASU Lodestar Center

In a normal month, 40 to 50 Arizona nonprofits will gain ‘public charity’ status from the IRS. What is driving this explosion in public charities in Arizona? Administrative accident or no, the explosion in the number of public charities is certainly noticeable. That’s actually 41 in November and only 20 that December (2012).

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How Can Member-Based Nonprofits Use Lean Innovation to Remain Relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

Often if a drug trial fails the public is unaware of the failure or the associated cost. Putnam digs into the changes in our culture in the 1970’s and 80’s and what may have occurred to create such a change in how we interact with each other in the social and civic arenas.

Arizona 40
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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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