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

Blue Avocado

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy. During my tenure, each chair was carefully chosen to bring the leadership skills and personal qualities needed at the time.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? Create a written plan.

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'Thanks to Public Allies, I am Now, and Forever, an Agent of Impact'

ASU Lodestar Center

Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters. I’ve had the chance to exercise my public speaking skills, increase my professionalism, and—most importantly—inspire others to do something great.

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Research Friday: Human Capital Performance Bonds. What are they? How do they work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Calls for scaling have been amplified by the recent economic recession, which brought increased demand for social services coupled with shrinking government dollars. Municipal bonds (munis) are debt obligations issued by government entities. The Model: The “non–nonprofit” organization: Twin Cities Rise!

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. " Alec Ross, Senior Adviser to US Secretary of State, speaking on Open Governance. disaster).

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. Macy's was great, and I think the corporate sector taught me a lot of great skills. Someone is born with it.

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