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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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What strategies can nonprofits implement to successfully navigate disruption?

ASU Lodestar Center

Train and develop leadership attributes. Include staff in resilience training and preparation. Focus on creating training opportunities for employees and volunteers to improve skillsets and to find new ways of supporting the underserved. Empowered (embraces shared leadership). Recommendations. Enhance staff connectedness.

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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. Kristi Kerner is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Kerner resides in Windsor Heights, Iowa, with her husband and daughter.

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#14LCS Facilitator Series: Meet Deepa Kunapuli

NTEN

Previously, she ran online programs for the New Organizing Institute, trained thousands of progressive organizers in digital best practices, and ran online constituency outreach for the 2012 Obama campaign. She''s a proud graduate of the University of Iowa and spends her free time at dance class.

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

Neon CRM

Iowa Healthiest State Initiative “To become the healthiest state in the nation by improving the physical, social and emotional well-being of Iowans.” Iowa Healthiest State Initiative ‘s mission statement answers the question one would ask once reading the nonprofit’s name: What does it mean to be the healthiest state?

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

ASU Lodestar Center

They then bring in volunteers without first setting up the appropriate infrastructure to orient, train, supervise, and recognize them properly. They strive to make volunteers feel a part of the team from the beginning with structured and comprehensive orientation and training.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. 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.

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