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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Evaluations should not be about power, judgment, blame or failure. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Overcoming the Government-Nonprofit Dependency

ASU Lodestar Center

Changes in Government Regulations & Laws – While some governmental changes can be beneficial to Social Service nonprofit organizations, such as the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 , others can have a negative impact, such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). She currently has a B.S. in Chemistry, B.A.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation. All You Need is Love.

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How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

It’s awesome that we got a full room because you always bring great trainings, you did a great session for us last year on budgeting. And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

Andy also has written a lot of great books, especially one on training your board. It’s staff training, it allows our employees to do their jobs better. Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . Harvey: Somewhere around here. .

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Fundraising.

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