.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

The matrix is a diagram that helps the board outline its current characteristics, pinpoints gaps in demographics or talent, and identifies what skills are needed in the future. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. Formal orientation programs are great.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2017

It provides skilled immigrants to the U.S. This work is part of its mission to close the opportunity gap and help skilled immigrants reach their full economic potential in the U.S. She realized there was no infrastructure to help highly skilled immigrants regain their careers and contribute to the U.S. at their full potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. Who is defining results anyway?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. You’re vigilant about gathering this information through post-program surveys or via your website. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Business Model Innovation. Universities are learning from other industries and accelerating business model innovation, with a focus on hybrid learning and teaching. More and more universities are adopting a “customer mindset” from other industries, and implementing learner-centric operating models. Learner-Centric Impact.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

Charged with making informed financial decisions that align with the organization’s mission and strategic objectives, this role requires a keen understanding of both internal dynamics and external factors impacting the organization. Check out the Guide to Hiring a Modern CFO for Your Nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Board members should be able to help you decide if the programs and services you currently have are pertinent to the mission. They should also help create new programs and services that accomplish your mission plus help raise needed funds to fund the work. it’s the IRS), and renewing solicitation permits.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Nonprofits may have to look externally for some of the skills, capabilities, and resources needed to be successful in the venture. Answer the question – What community need am I responding to, and how does a social enterprise approach meet the need versus a traditionally funded program model? Begin with a business plan.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A key differentiator for pro bono service and a concept core to The Knitting Factor is the idea of skill sharing or a two-way talent exchange in which both professional volunteers and their nonprofit partners are able to learn with and from each other through an expectation of shared value and knowledge.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

PEAK Grantmaking’s work centers on five core principles , each challenging our community of 8,000 philanthropy professionals to critically consider their internal grantmaking processes and perspectives, as a means toward operationalizing equitable grantmaking practices. Evolution is an ongoing practice. Change begins with you.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Make it better than any program you’ve done before, make it global and make it for girls,” those were the instructions from Mastercard’s CEO Ajay Banga to Susan Warner, VP Global Volunteerism, in 2014. For anyone who has experience creating an international employee engagement program, they know these things do not happen overnight.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2022

One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs. Investing in a program evaluation department helped the leadership team develop a clear strategy with their first strategic plan.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

First in the series is a Q&A with Gary Flowers, Chief Information Officer at Year Up , a nonprofit that ensures young adults gain the skills, experiences, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through careers and higher education. The partnership between Salesforce and Year Up is a model for year-round impact.

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Candid

MAY 5, 2021

Keep in mind that to even get candidates to apply, you need to build the kind of environment in which your model employees would want to work. However, many employers list required skills and experiences but still fall short of fully describing the position. Effective internal management and organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

For many, this means expanding programs, or “scaling up.”. Just because a program works well on its current scale, however, does not mean that it will automatically be successful on a larger scale. For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Both by authors with first names of Brian. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I am honored to be working with Wake International on their Tech2Empower Program in Cusco, Peru. The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

There are skilled tradespeople in every country we serve, and local talent makes our model far more sustainable. (As When we started, we were creating an internal tool for project management and quality assurance. When we let this discussion unfold, it simply reframed how we looked at “internal” or “proprietary” data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Build capabilities around skills rather than authority. Build capabilities around skills rather than authority.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Employee well-being is much more than including a wellness program into a professional's agenda. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm. This four-course program can be completed in less than three months.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Are your results related to external environmental factors or internal strategic ones? For example, if you’re a theater program that offers tickets to children, you might include education and youth services as options. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? And how did this work out?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. What you will do: Write computer programs for human rights data analysis projects. Skills: Small to medium scale programming, with an emphasis on readability and maintainability.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Match volunteer’s skills to their assignment. Brian Hetzer is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Brian currently works for Feed My Starving Children (Mesa, AZ) as a Volunteer Program Supervisor. Put volunteers in charge. Be organized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” The OE program works with grantees around the world to build their capacity in these areas.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. Monitor program impact. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. There will be more technology support from new startups and tech companies aiming new niche and international markets. It’s something incredible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

Syvan Diamond is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. She was recently inducted into Nu Lambda Mu , the International Honor Society for Nonprofit Management, Philanthropy, and Social Entrepreneurship & Enterprise. Scholarships are available.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

The project provides paid internships and job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans, as well as rehabilitation therapy (through gardening!) The garden has an integrated system, modeled on nature, in which nothing is wasted. Solar-Powered Technology and Job Skills Training. for disabled veterans. This includes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. As I mentioned in the first installment of this blog series, developing new language capabilities is one of the pillars of Bookshare International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Improve internal information systems. Establish norms around compassionate behavior and modeled by SLT. Robust on boarding program. Here’s the list: Function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley, California, was one of our test sites. They provide people with disabilities with training in IT skills useful for employment. They also operate a PC refurbishment program called their Computer ReUse Center , which refurbishes 200 computers per year. TechSoup and Interconnection.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Best for: from the c-suite to the intern desk, SCANPO (the South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations) has created a program for its conference that has something for everyone. Best for: foundation professionals ready to meet and collaborate with their peers around a variety of topics and skills. Price: $$$.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

To effectively advance your cause and push your fundraising goals forward, your nonprofit needs a strong internal infrastructure and team. By keeping your mission on the top of their minds, you can utilize board members’ skills, enthusiasm and influence to improve your nonprofit as a whole. Let’s begin.

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