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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Equip your new board members with the knowledge, resources, and connections they need to succeed from day one. Reach out to colleagues, friends, mentors, and professional acquaintances—anyone you know who may have connections or recommendations for prospective board members. Welcome them aboard. But don’t stop at day one.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

As many as five tiers of responsibility (junior positions, middle managers, executive staff, committees, and the board of directors) are not unusual. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association.

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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

Find a mentor. He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. Similarly, Cendana’s advice to those interested in pursuing executive leadership roles is to find an executive director who is willing to mentor you. And it’s true!

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What is the best way to deliver professional development to nonprofit emerging leaders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year we were honored to facilitate an emerging leadership program for a cohort of leaders who were part of the Packard Foundation’s Conservation and Science portfolio of grantees. That’s why we’ve included a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofits to apply the ideas and frameworks.

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E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Chris is the Director of User Experience for Meedan. (For context, read my earlier post ).

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Getting meta: Why the #CommBuild chats have evolved for three years and counting

NTEN

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Living Case Studies: Integrated Social Media Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. How To Convince Policy Directors. Spectragram.