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Tips for remote interns

Candid

If you’re an intern, like me, the percentage only increases, with nearly all of Candid’s fall 2023 interns working from their homes and schools across the country. As my internship comes to a close, I decided to ask my fellow interns at Candid what they’ve learned about working remotely. Be sure to add them to LinkedIn as well.

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How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

Achieve

build effective presentation skills. Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Internal benefits. Improving internal communication. . Let’s get started! Volunteers.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

Get Fully Funded

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. What nonprofit leadership skills does a Founder or Executive Director need to steer the ship? Where do you need to improve?

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Strengthening Your “Internal Partner” Muscles

VQ Strategies

Regardless of where leaders of volunteers fall on an org chart, their success relies not only on nurturing positive relationships between volunteers and the organization but also on nurturing effective partnerships internally with other staff. We now have a free, downloadable guide to help you build up these internal partnering muscles.

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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For very small nonprofits, this may not be true, but for medium and large nonprofits—or small nonprofits with a desire to grow their brand recognition and donors base—it’s becoming widely understood that new media managers have a unique and valuable skill set. Good Writing Skills. First and foremost, it’s a writing position.

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Leadership Lessons from the Martial Arts

The MatrixFiles

Most of them focus on skills you’ll develop from practicing the martial arts. Skills like focus, discipline, respect, confidence, flexibility, etc. He expects us to advocate for more training, and decide the cadence of our journeys. Google for leadership lessons from the martial arts and you’ll get a jillion posts.

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Leadership Lessons from the Martial Arts

The MatrixFiles

Most of them focus on skills you’ll develop from practicing the martial arts. Skills like focus, discipline, respect, confidence, flexibility, etc. He expects us to advocate for more training, and decide the cadence of our journeys. Google for leadership lessons from the martial arts and you’ll get a jillion posts.

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