Candid

MAY 5, 2021

While any loss of able employees is a tragedy, this does mean that if your nonprofit is hiring, there is a significant pool of qualified candidates to interview. Build an inclusive work environment . Build an inclusive work environment. Having frank conversations about building an inclusive environment can be difficult.

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TechImpact

JUNE 4, 2014

Find out if all your volunteers are up to date on your nonprofit’s processes, language, best practices, and policies. Track and monitor trends: From your interviews with volunteers, is there any reoccurring themes? Create a better volunteer environment. Anything that the majority of volunteers like? Better volunteer retention.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 27, 2021

Most of the responses centered around concerns that autistic employees have when it comes to their workplace environment. Some common challenges for people with autism include communication, social cues, and flexibility to changing environments. Since the lockdown restrictions are slowly lifting here in the U.K.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Create policies and procedures, so everyone is treated fairly. Create a work environment where everyone can thrive. Once you have some good candidates, it’s time for the next step, which is interviewing. Narrow down the candidates to your top three or four, and then schedule formal interviews. But then there’s more.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. This could involve setting specific goals or quotas for the number of diverse candidates that are interviewed, as well as making sure that the pool of candidates that are considered for board positions is diverse.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 21, 2018

In a recent study, researchers found that “a board that has greater gender diversity has more effective governance practices and is more likely to have policies and practices related to diversity” (Buse, Bernstein, Bilimoria, 2014, p. Personal interview. Personal interview. Sessler, B., Bilimoria, D. 2017, October 16).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 23, 2019

Additionally, UST found the importance of culture or office environment of the organization, which ranked 62.2 Efforts to screen applicants and include thoughtful questions in the interview process could assist in this respect to see if any further insight can be received during the interview process.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

DRF then reviewed nominees and selected advisors, using interviews and criteria for diversity. If social justice is important to you, consider how bringing in more marginalized sectors of the community will help you support solutions, programs, or policies that work for all. Consider how to ensure diversity among participants.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed? What brought you here?

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While most colleges do a great job equipping students with core skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills, given the many demands of employers, there’s a lot of learning that needs to take place outside of the traditional school environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." What insights stood out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices. For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.”

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Making key health data easy to understand can change how people think, how policies are made, and, quite literally, save lives.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

It is looking for people in nonprofits and libraries that have servers and who would be willing to do a short interview with Drew Bennett of NRDC sometime in May to tell your story. There is a clear cost advantage for them to do so, and the fact that it helps the environment and improves human health is a pretty tasty co-benefit.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

and a video interview explaining "data" as anything that can be digitized.) As a result, the conditions under which data become information look different every day, whether in journalism, government, health care, education, publishing, philanthropy, policy research, nonprofit work, advocacy or countless other fields.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 30, 2021

Invite them in for an interview, if the opportunity requires a significant time commitment and particular skills. Depending on whether the volunteer is there for a 1-day event or an ongoing shift, carefully plan how you’ll welcome and support them so they feel comfortable in their new environment.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

While this letter is a positive step, both a panel at this year's Stronger Together Conference and follow-up interviews with the participants demonstrates that more than open letters will be needed to change the conversation around costs, impact, overhead, and mission. Budgeting, fiscal policies, and internal control resources.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

This includes everything from reducing manual processes through workflow automation to the ability to collaborate and thrive in remote working environments. In a recent interview, I asked two very different organizations to share their digital transformation journeys to demystify the experience.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Discover how your employees work their best and use that data to inform your policy moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

pdf and a wiki with definitions of the lingo [link] Last week I gave a colleague a hard time about aspiring to “create an enabling environment” so I deserved to be surrounded by smart people who are making strides to create the infrastructure needed to drive capital to social change. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. Who are women who really understand the landscape of the issues, and the challenges, and who have really taken action to protect their environment, to sustain their communities?" I have always been very connected to my environment and to the earth.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar. Government policy: Rewarding citizens for their behavioral changes and better regulating toxic products. Tags: interview application conservation engagement environment innovation mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. Some identified include: -Build Community -Engage People -Advocate for Policy Change -Coordinate resources and services -Learning Networks - Develop and share best practices -Innovate -Get to Scale. policy outcomes, innovative products, etc) How do you know?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. It's a fascinating experiment in connecting with "nontraditional" arts audiences and encouraging strangers to dialogue about diverse topics in a performative environment. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Discover how your employees work their best and use that data to inform your policy moving forward.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

On a blank piece of paper write (without editing) a long list, or create a mind map, of all of the issues that are important to you ( i.e. health care, education, foreign policy, the arts, crime, poverty, animal rights, environment, local politics, organic food). You can be as general or specific as you like.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

Throughout the sector, we continuously see burnt-out employees or created environments of dissatisfaction with leadership. What does it cost to post, interview, hire, and train someone? In an environment where employees work hard and care about the people they serve, sometimes it can be easy to forget to recharge and rest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. We interview the teams. I think one of the things that is missing from cities are policies that support the creation of an environment for a company to thrive and to grow. You can also listen to our conversation on iTunes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This is a facebook page where many organizations across the environment, climate and animal welfare sectors came together to share news, updates, action alerts, and much more after the BP Oil Spill. Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million? The more is raised, the more impact they can make.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. Environment aside, from a consumers standpoint it makes a tremendous amount of sense. Jodie Van Horn: Plug-In Bay Area is a national grassroots effort to try to commercialize plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

In the employment context alone, from increased use of chatbots in hiring applications and AI-enabled assessments of applicant interviews to keystroke monitoring that gauges productivity and employee uses of generative AI to write reports or perform numerous other tasks, AI-related tools are poised to transform how work is done.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. In fact, we created a policy stating at least three staff members had to proofread any document slated for public distribution. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. Thought flow?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. And, I really wanted to do an interview with him to find out more about the CSO and Facebook. This should always be the first step in any new media endeavors: survey the environment and see what you can learn. One such example is fan photos. What have you learned?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Analysis of your environment. Using methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups to gather feedback from participants and stakeholders. . Foster a positive and inclusive work environment that is conducive to collaboration and teamwork. Develop clear policies and procedures for using your donor database.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. When in doubt, check your financial policies and procedures, the FOA/RFP/NOFA, or the federal budgetary guidelines. Without this, your entire project will fall short. This is a must.

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