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What leadership skills do nonprofit emerging leaders need to succeed?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Two recent research studies take a pass at answering that questions and the findings should be useful to those mentoring emerging leaders in their organizations and looking for professional development opportunities for them. “ Ready, set, here’s the deep end – hope you can swim. What does it look like?

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7 Ways Writers Can Give Back

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Be a mentor, or teacher to other writers. Flickr photo credit: Vintage Underwood Number 5 Manual Typewriter by Michael Dolan. Write a novel, play, poem, essay, blog post, or article about a cause, issue, inspiring changemaker, or movement. Write an op-ed. Write your Congressperson. Write a letter for Amnesty International.

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Why Good Habit Formation Is Important for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month.

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Storytelling in the Digital Age: Lessons from the SOCAP12 Conference

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The example he used was the hero myth: an underdog starts from nothing, becomes educated or stronger by way of a mentor, and then saves the world. Sachs said that organizations must make their audiences the hero and put themselves in the place of the mentor.

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What is the best way to deliver professional development to nonprofit emerging leaders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook, ” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development.

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7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Sam Livingston. If you don’t have a supervisor, or have one you struggle with, find a mentor by consulting with someone who has more fundraising experience than you and is therefore more likely to have helpful tips. So, to avoid my own burnout, please enjoy this guest post by Julie Fanning.

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Keep your New Year's Resolution with NetSquared

Tech Soup

Now I’m no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year’s resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like “find a mentor” or “learn a new skill every month.” Liz Kearley via Flickr. ” But following through on these plans can be difficult. We are, after all, in the second golden age of television !