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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

One reason for that may be that organizations’ efforts to diversify their boards have been more reactive than intentional, and more interested in optics than truly diverse leadership. A recent report from the Women’s Nonprofit Leadership Initiative suggests a few possible paths. Expertise matters, of course. How to do that?

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Why Strategic Training Matters for Capacity Building

Leading Learning

Perhaps you’ve been serving your mission for what seems like a lifetime, so of course you understand those you serve. He is president and founder of Nonprofit.Courses , an on-demand, e-learning educational resource for nonprofit leaders, staff, board members, and volunteers, with thousands of courses in nearly every aspect of nonprofit work.

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

Beth Kanter

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Tuesday Buzz: And the Web Goes Wild

Associations Now

With Art Philadelphia. A master’s course in thinking differently: Priceonomics takes a good, hard look at the AeroPress, an unusually effective invention that turned the coffee world on its head. ” So says National Fluid Power Association CEO Eric Lanke in a post deconstructing the role of control in leadership.

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Develop Your Skills: 5 Resources for Nonprofit Professionals

Achieve

There is a greater demand for master’s degree-qualified leadership in the nonprofit sector, and it’s ideal when a leader has a master’s degree specific to nonprofit management rather than an MBA or a degree in organizational leadership. . Don’t think that because a course was built for content marketing, it’s not valuable.

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

Nonprofit leadership. It is essential that all nonprofit leadership get the full basics of fundraising training. For the same reasons as leadership staff, many are just reluctant. Your board chair and your fundraising committee should get higher level training, parallel that of your staff leadership. Volunteers.

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A Global Story of Soap and Hope from #ASAE16 Closing Keynoter

Associations Now

After escaping the Ugandan civil war as a boy in 1979 and living among other refugees for more than a decade, Kayongo arrived as a young man in Philadelphia, where he saw to his surprise that the soap at the hotel where he was staying was replaced every day, after only one use. Stay the course.”. What do you believe in?”