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What leadership practices help nonprofits achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

As an Israel Defense Forces veteran, I relate to Jim Collins’ West Point talk about the ethics of service, commitment to a cause bigger than yourself, the understanding that you could die while serving and meaningful insight that the pursuit for greatness is a journey that never ends. And, as a nonprofit leader, it’s my call of duty.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. I didn’t realize as a child how traditions vary across the Christian world.

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Alexandra Rampy, Guest Post: The Cool Factor About Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Centers for Disease Control and the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute. In one day, more than 20 students from 6 universities and five AIDS organizations hit the streets with only cellphone video cameras to produce 8 short video messages to encourage youth to be tested for HIV. Cool Factor : Campus Alert System.

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Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

We adapt Kirznerian and Schumpeterian theory to social entrepreneurship, firstly, in order to move beyond viewing social entrepreneurship as simply a cross-sectoral phenomenon and make the stronger claim that entrepreneurship is a universal phenomenon. large-scale social change). Shockley, Ph.D., He recently co-edited with Dr.

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Recap of Unite for Sight '09 Global Health Conference, and Innovative Open Health Tools

Forum One

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 6th annual global health conference sponsored by a dynamic young group called Unite for Site at Yale University. system that is used to teach tailored, structured courses long-distance to health care professionals. Bobby Jefferson of Futures Group International talked about ?Building

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

Tech Soup

His parents were Latvian immigrants who met on a kibbutz in Israel in 1930. He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. Daniel has also taught journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz.