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How Can Nonprofit Organizations Build High-Performing Employees?

ASU Lodestar Center

To create a strategy, organizations should ask themselves goal-oriented questions, including: Positions needed to be filled. If these questions can’t be answered, then the job characteristics needs to be structured to value autonomy, variety and task significance; all of which will help fuel talented employees. Qualifications desired.

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Research Friday: Who grants the most? Who gets the most?

ASU Lodestar Center

In the quiz, we asked a few questions about Arizona's largest nonprofit organizations, in terms of assets, grantmaking, and donations. Some of the answers may have surprised you, so let's talk about a few of those trickier questions. Thanks to the 100 people who took our nonprofit sector quiz ! Who grants the most?

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Ask A Nonprofit Specialist - Engaging the Board in Financial Reports

ASU Lodestar Center

Question: This question was recently posed to the ASU Lodestar Center’s “Ask a Nonprofit Specialist”: Every time the financial report is made at my organization’s Board meeting, the members seem to either fixate on a number that is not especially meaningful or the opposite: their eyes glaze over in boredom.

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower. When board recruitment comes up on the agendas of most boards, the discussion usually starts with the question, ‘Who do we know?’ percent of the U.S.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

is a question I often hear people ask. As I become more immersed in the nonprofit world, I learn more about dilemmas in philanthropy; questions like: "where will my contribution have the most impact?" As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Why investing in leadership development is a wise strategy

ASU Lodestar Center

With clear benefits to the organization and the sector, the question becomes: what type of leadership development strategy should nonprofit organizations adopt, and how should they execute it? He has also volunteered with the Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network. Adam has been a grant advisor for The Pollination Project.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

Sixteen arts administrators, journalists, and researchers weighed in on the question over a series of posts. Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. How do you respond to this question? and a few more thoughts.

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