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What strategies can nonprofits implement to successfully navigate disruption?

ASU Lodestar Center

Vicki MacFarlane is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University and a member of the international Nu Lambda Mu Nonprofit Honor Society. 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

A nonprofit mission statement also serves as inspiration for employees, donors, and volunteers and provides the public with an overview of the organization’s mission and purpose. Download the report Step 4: Begin Writing After answering all the questions above, think through how you’d want to communicate these answers to the public.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

In the publication “ Strategic Volunteer Engagement: A Guide for Nonprofit and Public Sector Leaders ,” Sarah Jane Rehnberg, PhD, and her colleagues describe the Cycle of Poorly Managed Volunteer Engagement. Register for the Nonprofit Management Institute''s NMI 104 - Managing Staff & Volunteers online course.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

It is time for the nonprofit sector as a whole to come together and educate the public and its funders about the importance of investing in capacity building. Stanford Social Innovation Review, (Fall 2009), 49-53. ): Tufts University Press. Gregory, A. & Howard, D. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Harold, J., & & Berger, K.

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

These collections are free for the public to access. Here are a few not covered in the presentation: How We Are Raising Funds at a Small, Rural Library by Ann Riegle-Coursey, director, New Madison Public Library. She uses information from the University of Iowa College of Public Health's Rural Policy Research Institute.

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

Candid

Our network of partners includes public libraries, university and community college libraries, public charities, and nonprofit resource centers, including nonprofit associations. For example, the Anne Arundel County Public Library recently extended access to Candid’s grant research tools to all 16 of their locations.