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Investing in Growth: Leaders’ Professional Development Plans

The NonProfit Times

Nonprofit leaders need to commit to a mindset of continuous learning and professional development to remain relevant and effective in their current roles. Here are five reasons for investing in personalized professional development for leaders and strategies to support your professional journey.

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Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

Forum One

We’re pleased to be seeing a growing focus on products and product strategy among government agencies and nonprofit organizations, developing products and approaches that advance progress in health, the environment, and beyond. Similarly, such an approach can sharpen focus on features or content that support specific strategic goals.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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I was eager to hear Sue’s ideas about the importance of focusing the board on qualities like empathy, self-knowledge, and strong social skills to build a productive environment. In addition to leadership development, training in digital technology is also valuable. ASAPS had a leadership training program. Boards have to be transparent.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

How do you go about developing the technology skills of your staff? A bus driver or cleaning staff might need only a few of these skills, whereas a development director might need all these and many more skills. What skills are needed to achieve your organization’s strategic goals? Would that skill be easy to outsource?

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[Case Study] First-Time Golf Tournament Exceeds Fundraising Goal for Habitat for Humanity of Chicago

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In Chicago, Habitat’s commitment is to local families to achieve strength, stability, and self-reliance through housing and development projects. It’s not about giving away homes, it’s about creating generational change, a steady and safe environment for families, and building wealth in their home,” Chris says. The Solution.

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Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer

Kindful

And the way we do that on the software development team is to build features and products that provide real value to our customers. Responsibilities Full-stack development Work within all layers of our products, with an emphasis on backend components, API, and the database. You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Create Space for Evolution Don’t fixate on giving every goal a finite timeline.