article thumbnail

How can nonprofits increase employee satisfaction while upholding organizational expectations?

ASU Lodestar Center

Leadership should promote and model a healthy work-life balance. On-site wellness centers or discounts to local gyms boost physical fitness incentives while employee assistance programs or mental health counseling can help endorse mental wellness. Kerner resides in Windsor Heights, Iowa, with her husband and daughter.

Iowa 52
article thumbnail

Domestic Violence Awareness Month: 5 Extraordinary Organizations

Tech Soup

On October 1, Brighter Tomorrows held a Candlelight Vigil at a local police department. On October 3, it held a Purple Paw Project festival at a local park. Crisis Intervention Service serves 15 counties in north central Iowa. This model reduces barriers and also provides a more comfortable setting for our clients.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Changing the World One Gift at a Time: An Interview with Deron Beal of the Freecycle Network

Have Fun - Do Good

It enables people to find others in their local community to give things to that they would otherwise end up throwing away or taking to the landfill. I sent out one email to 30 or 40 friends and a handful of local nonprofits announcing the start of this Yahoo group. We've been around for about four years now. I'll call it Freecycle."

article thumbnail

2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Areas served: Iowa.

article thumbnail

Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Activities can be local, regional, or, in some instances, statewide. By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. The Iowa Women’s Foundation. Areas served: Iowa.

article thumbnail

The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project will create a model for compassionate redevelopment that can be replicated in hundreds if not thousands of communities. This model lets communities create new affordable housing in beautiful neighborhoods, and uses the strength of the market to help pay for it.”. Project Animal Worldwide , Ellen La Torre.

article thumbnail

Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." He was a very big influence.

Group 41