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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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Humanocracy

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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Creating Organizations As Amazing As The People Inside Them

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Some of the broader themes for how to harness the power of humanocracy include: Teaching frontline staff to think like businesspeople. Cross-train associates and organize them into small, multifunctional teams. Pair new employees with experienced mentors. Our organizations are (mostly) not.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference. We’ve mentored, advised, and convened people from across the world. Pictured: Devi Thomas’ sons.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

And I got some training. I’m so grateful that I got that training, but I had really very little mentorship and guidance. You get a lot of training, but not a lot of mentorship and guidance. I get training, my employer pays for me to go to these conferences, webinars, but I prioritize that, but I really could use a mentor.

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7 ways to increase volunteer engagement

Nimble AMS

With a good volunteer survey, you have the power to impact the effectiveness of volunteer orientation, training, recruitment, and retention. Do we offer enough training opportunities, and was our orientation process thorough enough that you feel prepared to do your volunteer duties? . Offer mentor/mentee volunteer programs.

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