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What strategies can nonprofits implement to successfully navigate disruption?

ASU Lodestar Center

Incorporating [resilience] qualities into an organizational system equips it to systematically adapt to disruptive challenges. 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 earned a bachelor’s of recreation management from University of Northern Iowa.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Lisa Humenik has a master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in nonprofit leadership and has been a member of the faculty for the nonprofit management certificate program at Iowa State University Extension and for the volunteer management certificate program at the Union Institute in Cincinnati.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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New to TechSoup: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013

Tech Soup

This bar includes "breadcrumbs" to let you know where you're working in the system. Data entry: The Create command in the navigation bar allows you to enter data in a few fields to get new information into the system. Navigation bar: A new navigation bar at the top of the page replaces the previous navigation pane.

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

Candid

As a result, many library systems have been able to expand their Candid community locations beyond a single branch to all sites across their systems. The state library systems of Hawaii and Iowa even took advantage of this opportunity to provide access to Candid resources at every public library in the state.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Because of these current expectations, a lot of the work conducted in the nonprofit sector are short-term, “Band-Aid” solutions, rather than addressing the root of systemic issues. In return, they have been given very limited resources and an expectation for them to be efficient with what they are given and held to restricting rules.

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