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What strategies can nonprofits implement to successfully navigate disruption?

ASU Lodestar Center

Using resilience as a process, nonprofit organizations can have the capacity to continuously respond to challenges and provide uninterrupted and valuable services,” write Hope Witmer and Marcela Sarmiento Mellinger. An Iowa native, Vicki resides and works along the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa, with her husband, Jeff.

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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

Inclusive organizations create systems that encourage ongoing intellectual and stylistic disruptions of the status quo in service of an underlying organizational mission. Jen Nation is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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

Neon CRM

Have you limited or expanded your service area? 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. What Are Your Programs and Services?

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#14LCS Facilitator Series: Meet Deepa Kunapuli

NTEN

She is a co-founder of The Brain Trust , a digital consulting firm that provides capacity building services to Asian American and Pacific Islander organizations in the social justice and advocacy space. She''s a proud graduate of the University of Iowa and spends her free time at dance class.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

This way of thinking about and describing volunteerism is in stark contrast to how volunteers feel after rewarding service experiences. She has also worked as the Director of Volunteer Services for health systems in Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois and as a Special Projects Manager for Points of Light/HandsOn Network.

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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

): Tufts University Press. Tyler Adams completed his Bachelor’s degree in Leisure, Youth and Human Services with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management at the University of Northern Iowa back in 2013. Tyler completed his Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University in May of 2017.

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