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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I extracted many insights about the international development field reading books like Easterly’s Tyranny of Experts or Maren’s Road to Hell. His “Law of Amplification” was particularly insightful: “technology’s primary effect is to amplify human forces.” Avoid indiscriminate dissemination of packaged interventions.

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Comprehensive Guide To Year-End Giving

CauseVox

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit.

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Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). So, decide today to secure a mentor who will work with you during 2011.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Most of the hypothetical situations or examples we’ll explore will be focused around event committee recruitment and those more complex volunteer roles. Of course, be sure to work with your staff team to get an outside perspective and seek advice from trusted colleagues, mentors, and managers.

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3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. They pose alternatives.

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How Nonprofits Can Build Trust with Strong Internal Controls

sgEngage

Here’s an example: . Justice Department froze federal grant funding to a nonprofit after an audit revealed that they couldn’t account for nearly $20 million dollars of federal funds that were drawn by the organization for mentoring youth. Comply with laws, regulations, and policies . Broken laws . Wasteful spending .