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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations that invest in training, creating diversity and inclusion statements and promoting these values to the organization as a whole, can help track success and fill in gaps when there are challenges. Invest in training. Jen earned a bachelor’s of recreation management from University of Northern Iowa.

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How can nonprofits increase employee satisfaction while upholding organizational expectations?

ASU Lodestar Center

Many valuable resources of the organizations are then spent on recovering from turnover including recruiting, hiring, and training new talent. 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.

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

Neon CRM

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. Are you working with new demographics?

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

Candid

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. She uses information from the University of Iowa College of Public Health's Rural Policy Research Institute. Here are some highlights and insights from her presentation.

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How Healthy Do You Want Your Nonprofit Board To Be?

BoardAssist

A seasoned nonprofit professional, Anne has held leadership positions with a number of local and national organizations. Anne Wallestead is the President and CEO of national nonprofit BoardSource, one of the leading resources on governance available to the nonprofit community.

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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 Hadassah Foundation. Mary’s Pence.