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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. I’m thankful to Media Cause for giving me a chance, and lastly, for teaching me the immense value of team support.

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Bo Eason Teaches You How To Achieve Your A-Game In Life

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. Your job is not to beat yourself up, not to be ashamed of failing to keep your commitment to your dream. Your job is to right the ship. He includes those distractions and makes them part of his game. By the way, this isn’t limited to great athletes.

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

Qgiv

Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Train Them On the Job. Whatever it is, giving your volunteer a broader look at why their job is important is motivating and gives a great sense of accomplishment when it’s complete. Teach Them About the Program, Too.

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YouthBuild Boston: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. This is an after school program that is all about green jobs training and making old things new again. The Mission of After School Programs.

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Red Light, Green Light for Peer to Peer Fundraising in 2015

Connection Cafe

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! As a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser, you sometimes feel like your only job is addressing complaints from your participants, volunteers, committee members, other staff, etc.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Lindsay Green suggests: I’ll go with make the work the team are focussed on visible - literally a list of projects or challenges you’re currently solving on the wall. Everyone can learn from others.

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