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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority. Share the spotlight : Remember, you’re not driving. Normally, I make sure to clarify definitions when I start.

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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The OE Team : Flowing from Packard Foundation’s Founders’ business philosophy of nurturing leaders and giving them the freedom to pursue promising approaches, the Packard Foundation assists in building the leadership skills and management capacity of their grantees.

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A Reality Check for Nonprofit Professionals: Are You Taking the High Ground?

Connection Cafe

College debt has made nonprofit organizations less appealing places to work, and turnover is a serious problem (caused by employees who lack loyalty, of course, but also by leadership that doesn’t have a realistic means of measuring an employee’s contribution). Are we getting that message out, or are we guilty of sounding generic?

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides. So let me share my slides with you all. Does that sound good? Julie: Woo-hoo.

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Keynote from My Charity Connects Conference at NetChange Week

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My slides are above and my reflections are below. The audience was a mix of large institutions with small nonprofits, staff or volunteers who had hands-on responsibility for social media and board members and senior leadership. When I tell people that they might see themselves in the slide show, there is always nervous giggle.

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Reflections from #15ntc Session Walking As Work and 20/8/2 Rule

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The slides and resources from the session can be found here. While this may sound a little prescriptive, it is based on health research and simple to put into practice. But if moving more at work is a cultural norm promoted by leadership it becomes more powerful and sustainable. Who wants to meet Thu at 12:30 for a walk?

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. Yesterday, I had the chance to run a workshop with the leadership institute graduates.

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