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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

By Olga Moshinsky Woltman “The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.” – Carol Dweck It is a truth universally acknowledged that employees who are motivated to continuously learn and grow will be the ones to take on new challenges, innovate, and problem-solve.

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share. I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. I’m a bit worried by this.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most recently, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. AI Now Institute Co-Founder, Kate Crawford, shared the top line trends as a thread on Twitter. We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. … Read More

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? Cultural Trends Vol. Cultural Trends, 19: 4, 307 — 324. Art is also very subjective. Again borrowing: “One man’s trash is another man’s art.” So, what is the value of art?

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

In Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk, he discusses the Overhead Myth and how it can negatively affect nonprofits by hindering their ability to create long-term sustainable growth. Educating them about the trends and myths of the sector could go a long way to help them gain a better understanding of what would be best for the organization.

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

The topics we’re discussing, the ways in which we’re discussing them, who we can connect with— it’s all viewed through a pandemic-era lens. If you’ve caught the news at any point in the last year, you know that the trending topics are different than anything we’ve encountered before. Evolutions in Content.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. This past year, U.S.

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