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How should nonprofits develop a high-performance culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

They become more autonomous, more confident and perform better at their jobs. All job tasks are necessary, and each circle is valuable. Karen Kormendy is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Diversity and engagement.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Youth unemployment was a critical issue for the city at that time – an issue that aligned with John Hancock’s business goals of providing meaningful job opportunities to young people in the community as well as helping them to be better prepared to enter the workforce. How did these groups come together?

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. What the Frac? Kyle Ferrar, a Ph.D.

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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

ASU Lodestar Center

The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants. Moreover, the report found that Arizona has a shortage of jobs that pay a self-sufficient wage. The recently released report, How Much is Enough in Your County?

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

I got a group of 8 teens together and I taught them a simple Photoshop project. So, their after school program became their after school job as well. I'm excited for the university to be able to share and discuss new and innovative ideas in the field. They kept coming back, and it escalated into its own organization.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. We just have to think differently about how we craft job positions and expectations. That participation is powerful and scalable.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. If I was working for a nonprofit that was doing a job search for a technologically savvy marketing person, I wouldn't even both posting a job description - I just hire her. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens.

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