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How can nonprofits increase employee satisfaction while upholding organizational expectations?

ASU Lodestar Center

Leadership should promote and model a healthy work-life balance. Kristi Kerner is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Kerner resides in Windsor Heights, Iowa, with her husband and daughter. The culture must reflect an overall focus on the well-being of employees.

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What strategies can nonprofits implement to successfully navigate disruption?

ASU Lodestar Center

Perhaps we will never again see such simultaneous disruption to every aspect of business and personal life, but this is the perfect time to examine strengths and weaknesses specific to organizational resilience. An Iowa native, Vicki resides and works along the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa, with her husband, Jeff.

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How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 10 Great Examples)

Neon CRM

Iowa Healthiest State Initiative “To become the healthiest state in the nation by improving the physical, social and emotional well-being of Iowans.” Iowa Healthiest State Initiative ‘s mission statement answers the question one would ask once reading the nonprofit’s name: What does it mean to be the healthiest state?

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. How about you? I did it! How about you?

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, April 17-23

Tech Soup

It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. EcoCommons launched this week in Second Life. Conferencing Virtually : The Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference. We're all excited for NTC. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. It's time to vote! TechSoup Blog.

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

She regards her life's work as leveling that playing field. She uses information from the University of Iowa College of Public Health's Rural Policy Research Institute. Adams feels that her and her organization's mission is to build bridges between funders and grantseekers. Insights on Government Funding.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

Have Fun - Do Good

In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa. I think I can speak to that right now, because I'm speaking to you from Iowa City. I moved here a couple of weeks ago, and I'm in a program at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in fiction, which is not where I saw myself ending up.