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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The nonprofit/philanthropic sector in Massachusetts is different from the analogous sector in any other state in the U.S.A. Carefully tailored one-to-one desk-side coaching usually increases a worker’s effectiveness much more quickly than classroom training. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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Help a Nonprofit Cross the Digital Divide This Summer

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: What Makes People Engage? Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Librarians as Knowledge Management Allies for Nonprofits. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. What Makes People Give? New York, New York: Year-end Fundraising in July! Make Your Donor the Hero.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Massachusetts Nonprofit Network / Framingham, MA / $225. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network / Hollywood, CA / Not available. From effective streamlining to data analysis and knowledge management, grants managers are doing the work that defines grantmaking. Mar 20 - 23.