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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation & Workshop at Amplified Leicester

Amy Sample Ward

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar.

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How can leadership development strategies improve retention in nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Planning and facilitating fundraising events. The Center for Creative Leadership advocates for the 70/20/10 Model for Learning and Development, which asserts that adults learn 70% through on-the-job stretch opportunities, 20% through coaching and mentoring, and 10% through training programs.

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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

ASU Lodestar Center

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Using collaborative inquiry to engage stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

It is helpful to utilize a process that will help facilitate a deep and meaningful dialogue. Difficult decision and discussions are eased and facilitated by the common understanding and creation of criteria for evaluation. Do you have questions about starting, governing, managing or operating a nonprofit organization?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Creating, Building, and Sustaining.

ASU Lodestar Center

You can find websites with practical ways to facilitate community interactions, or ask colleagues at other nonprofit organizations for tips. I agree we need more of these model communities. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs Our 15 year old son is severely autistic.

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What Attributes do Nonprofits Need to Build Cross-Sector Collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

By providing attention to building leadership within, these collaborations could model authority, vision, long term commitment and integrity. Funding cuts could leave 100-plus Phoenix-area families homeless -- again. The Role of Nonprofits in Disaster Response: An Expanded Model of Cross-Sector Collaboration. Polletta, M.

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Nonprofit Mergers - When Churches Merge

ASU Lodestar Center

The following is a combination of results from analysis I conducted last year on the 50 Collaboration Prize submissions that related to mergers, as well as two case studies from recent church mergers in the metro Phoenix area. Redemption Merger: Similar Vision, Differing Models & Audiences. Results of the Mergers.

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