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

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We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. 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.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

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Although not bad behavior per se, it’s at least gauche to ask others to financially support a cause that you don’t—and part of being a board member means generating funds through networking. 3 Ultimately, we were left with 20 people who collectively served as a functioning board of directors. Takeaway 3: The board needs training.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration. This input led them to adopt an Emergent Learning framework and feminist evaluation principles , which recognize evaluation as a political act and the information generated as key to advocacy.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

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What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Consider using your executive director. By following these steps, your organization can replace poor capacity with self-sufficiency, self-determination, and empowerment. Identify champions and people to work with. Create a written plan.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. The questions and problems are generated exactly from the needs of the participants – what do they need to do?

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. You started very young.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

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Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. I became the Executive Director and co-founder of an organization there called Free At Last , which serves people that have substance abuse issues.

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