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Performance Based Funding Institute to Improve Higher Education

VisionLink

Douglas Zimmerman and Lois Ann Porter traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to organize the Performance-Based Funding Institute VisionLink produced for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Shaun Yoder of Education First, facilitating the North Carolina state team at the PBF Institute.

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The Sit-Ins: A Story of Creative and Strategic Struggle

DipJar

Four freshmen from the North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College — known to history as the NC A&T Four — sat down at the whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter. recognized these sit-ins as an “electrifying movement of Negro students [that] shattered the placid surface of campuses and communities across the South.” .

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

Jeanne Allen, Program Coordinator, Duke University Nonprofit Management Program. Yvonne Harrison, Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership Center/Seattle University. Paula Jones, Director of Technology, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits. Conor Barnes, Advisor, Investor, & Student.

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Maximizing Social Engagement for #GivingTuesday

NonProfit Hub

As vacations end, students return to school, and the final days of summer approach, your nonprofit is busy gearing up for your year-end fundraising strategy. Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He also received an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW. I also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Cool App Roundup: Library Edition

Tech Soup

For example: North Carolina State University's Red, White & Black. the university library archives. The UCSF Library and the University of Virginia's Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. And these technologies can help patrons engage with library (and other) collections in new ways.

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Maximizing Social Engagement for #GivingTuesday

NonProfit Hub

As vacations end, students return to school, and the final days of summer approach, your nonprofit is busy gearing up for your year-end fundraising strategy. Nick received a BA from The Johns Hopkins University. He also received an MBA from Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

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