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January Cause Awareness: National Mentoring Month

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Positive mentoring relationships are so important to the success of youth everywhere. That’s why we take time every January to celebrate National Mentoring Month! If you’re wondering how you can celebrate the mentors in your life or even become a mentor yourself, here’s a little bit about National Mentoring Month.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role. Career coaches and mentors are great. However, awareness of the distractions can minimize their impact. Begin with yourself.

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The Power of Plans, Peers, and Pivots

VQ Strategies

We thought it would be helpful to look at what the successful organizations all shared so that we might be able to apply those lessons more broadly to our sector’s work in 2021 and to our personal work plans. As we move into 2021, how can you embrace these lessons into your work? Here are a few thoughts to guide your response.

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

Saleforce Nonprofit

Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. Slack automatically organizes students into smaller course-group channels with industry mentors to help ensure their success.

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From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. But if you set goals, strive to reach them, you will ultimately learn invaluable lessons.

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Take Command -- How To Be A First Responder In Business (Interview With Author Jake Wood)

Eric Jacobsen Blog

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. Wood : Football taught me a lot about the power of understanding roles.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. These volunteers engage journalists at local newspapers, radio and TV stations to exponentially scale up Greenpeace’s visibility and impact in Germany. It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress.