Candid

AUGUST 18, 2022

Written in partnership with Equivolve Consulting, we capture lessons from the BMA Fellowship as a case study of what’s possible when Black social innovators exist in an affirming environment of support and respect. Here are three actions to take to commit to funding Black communities and leaders for the long-term: .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

With limited people and financial resources, leaders of nonprofit organizations must execute strong management styles that develop the talent of their teams, foster healthy working environments and encourage retention of valuable employees. Build a Supportive Structure.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Think like an owner.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. Ensure that the organization’s leadership is representative of the communities it serves.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Think like an owner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Think like an owner.

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Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 24, 2022

Plan on how to structure your meeting. Bad Fundraiser : “What’s the most important thing about the environment to you?”. We’re hurting the environment forever and we don’t even realize it!”. Here’s how that conversation could have gone: Superman Fundraiser: “What’s the most important thing about the environment to you?”.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority. The preferred structure that many projects move toward in crypto is DAOs, which deliberately pushes power to the community.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Policies and procedures give volunteers the information and structure they need to feel confident in their role, especially when they are just getting started. Procedures do not require Board approval but are critical for providing processes and structure to support the policies. Is there a form to fill out? Is orientation required?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Most people can’t draw, so this activity levels the playing field and it positively reinforces group dynamics and builds a more open environment. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook. Then you interview people on different sides of the scale.

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Gyrus

JUNE 30, 2016

After assembling a team and discussing all the things required in this new system, spending weeks combing through written materials and vetting vendor demos, then conducting final interviews, the wait is over. Load all of these completed materials into a test environment, then conduct rounds of testing. Start producing new content.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. It’s important to note that an apprenticeship differs from an internship in a few key ways. Internships are often short-term (1-3 months) where apprenticeships are longer-term (1-3 years).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The chapter suggests “Tearing down the silos” and that this will encourage more open leadership, and create a transparent environment. The idea is to go from a hierarchical structure (what Allison Fine and I described as Fortress in our book) to a more collaborative, team offer. Cross disciplinary teams.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Struggling with letting go of hard-care contracts into a more agile environment. Finding the match between market needs and skills — try informational interviewing with other consultants. what are the red flags?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

During interviews being presents means even allowing silence so your subject can move at a pace that is comfortable for them. Help your subjects be their best natural selves by filming them in their natural environments and treating interviews like conversations. Give structure to your story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 9, 2019

To achieve this balance, Hampton encourages creativity, stating that traditional recruitment and interview tactics do not provide much information about how candidates will fit into daily life. Patty Hampton of Nonprofit HR urges organizations to focus on finding candidates who have a balance of personality/culture fit and necessary skills.

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

Below we interviewed the six female department heads at Media Cause. Spending time in the outdoors has always been an important part of my life, and something that I think not only instills confidence but provides mental health support and helps younger generations to develop a greater appreciation and respect for the environment. .

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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. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. They can create the change makers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The activity provides a structured environment in which people can connect with one another, and coupled with different calls to action, can go a long way towards accommodate different comfort levels.

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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. Click To Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. s NTC in content and structure with a variety of topics and demonstrations. John posted a marvelous report on the NTEN listservs about what he learned.

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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. Melinda: Well, it might be helpful to explain the origin of Women's Global Green Action Network, because it helps to describe how we are structured. Who are the women who are really at the center of a lot of these campaigns, and of these projects?

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

" The piece was an interview with Columbia Professor of Management William Pietersen summarizing the research in his publication " Strategic Learning: How to Be Smarter Than Your Competition and Turn Key Insights into Competitive Advantage. The align step is too often forgotten.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Organizational readiness can be determined by looking at an organization’s internal staff and environment. The environmental scan phase looks at the external market: who the association’s competition is, what the target market wants, if there is a market for the content being provided, what type of pricing structure to enact, and more.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Bringing in baked goods, setting up a company brunch or just making Friday a half-day are all great, tangible, no-strings-attached ways of creating an environment of comfort, wonder and inspiration. Work-life balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

I was lucky enough to snag an interview with Jessica Kirkwood from HandsOn Network who oversees social media strategy about how the strategy and measurement component for this campaign. While these results seem relatively straightforward on the surface, structuring an online campaign around them proved more challenging than anticipated.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Raising money in a micro-philanthropic environment will come naturally to these groups. Raising money in 2012 will require creativity and foresight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

My argument here is that we need to pay attention to the network structures. I'm not interested in having separate networks; i'm interested in making certain that people understand the gender bias they build into the network and that it represents a diversity of perspectives, is flexible to deal with a diversity of social structures.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below. What we also believe will start to happen is that you create an environment of sort of inspired competition. retail market. Priya Haji: My name is Priya Haji. BB: What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Bringing in baked goods, setting up a company brunch or just making Friday a half-day are all great, tangible, no-strings-attached ways of creating an environment of comfort, wonder and inspiration.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. and a video interview explaining "data" as anything that can be digitized.) See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?"

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

How do I deal with going through the interview process all over again? ” I’ve lined up a couple of interviews. How do you prepare for interviews? So if you go into the interview and you look to say, “Hey. How do you prepare for interviews? What should I be doing to find the next big thing for me?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Monica publicly launched Museum of Impact this year with an exhibition on #blacklivesmatter, and she has projects on other themes--immigration, environment, mass incarceration--in the works. Check out this great interview with Monica by Elise Granata, and learn more about how you can get involved. Want to know more?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica for the Big Vision Podcast. We eat a lot of factory-processed foods, and it's having terrible consequences for our health and for the environment. We just have to offer them the structure that they need to be able to learn. We also take groups.

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