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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars. In addition to providing a top-tier education, HBCUs accept and acknowledge students’ identities.

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Volunteer Training: Exceeding Expectations

Volunteer Hub

Developing a training program that exceeds the expectations of volunteers will impact retention, engagement, and referral sources for your nonprofit. A study, performed by Middlesex University for Work Based Learning, found that 74% of people felt they weren’t achieving their full potential due to lack of development opportunities.

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Can Networks Have Social Impact?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. Open/Closed and how it impacts the learning.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

Classy

After roughly a year of managing the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on business operations and daily life, nonprofits might be wondering how to continually keep their partnerships feeling meaningful and impactful. Together, Little Kids Rock and JBL distributed free headphones to kids in schools across eight cities.

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How can diversity, equity and inclusion strategies help nonprofits stay relevant?

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, consider you’re a Spanish-speaking customer from a neighborhood that as of recently is facing a housing crisis due to COVID-impacted job losses. Unfortunately, this is a common dilemma for minority groups and various ethnic populations. Relevancy is the quality or state of being closely connected or appropriate.

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Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable?

Gyrus

But now, everything that is required for proper learning and accreditation is right there at your fingertips, just a few screen clicks away from impacting organizational wisdom, verifying departmentalized compliance, and actually engaging these hard to reach people. Evolution of the Content.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures.