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Why you want your nonprofit to fail

ASU Lodestar Center

Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are looking for new ways to measure (and thereby validate) the importance of their work. Our organizations have been measuring outputs in one way or another for as long as there has been philanthropy. Prior to attending ASU, she worked for Teach For America * Memphis.

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#bbcon Just Took Over Austin, TX| Day 1 Recap

Connection Cafe

This story was really about Mrs. Grady, the librarian at his school, who not only knew he was sneaking out books and let it slide but would drive to Memphis, some miles away, and buy more books, with her own money, by the same author in the hope that this young, troubled boy would continue to go down this new and alternate path.

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