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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

Find a mentor. Similarly, Cendana’s advice to those interested in pursuing executive leadership roles is to find an executive director who is willing to mentor you. Mentors can make introductions for you and give you key insights that would take you years to learn on your own. And it’s true!

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. CA: During both my undergraduate and graduate degrees, I held a variety of part-time jobs to help defray my college expenses. My mind was a sponge.

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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

A volunteer’s significance goes far beyond just saving nonprofits money in wages; they bring experience, knowledge, and lots of passion. Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. The importance of volunteers cannot be underestimated.

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How can nonprofits grow sustainable revenue by retaining fundraising professionals?

ASU Lodestar Center

Turnover reduces current and future revenue and erodes institutional knowledge while diminishing a donor's connection to the mission. Recommendations help maximize skills and knowledge, incentivize high performance through financial incentives or rewards and address workload and stress issues, to create fundraiser sustainability.

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Thank you for being Vartan Gregorian

Candid

To enter Vartan’s office was to travel back to a time when the sheer mass of books in a room made the walls vibrate with the power of knowledge and ideas. To hear him speak was to witness that knowledge come to life. I was one of many who felt mentored by Vartan through the years.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. Eighty schools responded, many of which had similar initiatives at their universities, and students from all corners of the country came together at Purdue.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.