Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Some tech skills you can learn on your own. This practical, project-based approach helps make sure you’re not just memorizing theories but actively learning by doing. TL;DR: Get hands-on hacking lessons from the All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle on sale for $35 through April 27.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

Quality, dedicated nonprofit volunteers and skilled staff are the key to any successful mission. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” But how do you find them, and once you’ve got them, how do you keep them around?

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Government of Canada announced that applications are now open for the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program. The Government has dedicated up to $5 million per year in funding to organizations to support youth employment activities.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Government of Canada‘s Youth Employment and Skills Strategy Program (YESS Program) aims to provide funding to organizations to deliver a range of activities to support young Canadians (aged 15 to 30) to develop the skills and gain the experience they need to find and keep quality jobs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2020

It’s a win-win situation as well, for volunteers are 27% likelier to be hired, thanks to the skills and experience earned through volunteering. It has more than 10,000 active companies and professionals offering services in 100+ categories. The crucial role of volunteers in nonprofit organizations can’t possibly be understated.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Why student involvement matters Engaging students in nonprofit activities isnt just beneficialits transformative. Keep the activities manageable within their schedules.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. Be generous with endorsing the skills of others as endorsements are often reciprocated. For the first 13 years of its existence, growth was slow but steady. That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It is a skill that we can train. He explains how to change your relationship to your thoughts, manage the activation of your stress response, and create structural changes in the wiring of your brain in as little as 20 hours. Its a learnable skill. How can we decrease the propensity of activating our fight or flight response?

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 31, 2023

Today we describe DIDACT (​​Dynamic Integrated Developer ACTivity), which is a methodology for training large machine learning (ML) models for software development. We leverage instrumentation of Google's software development to scale up the quantity and diversity of developer-activity data beyond previous works.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

And our virtual communication skills were not up to the task of addressing those negative emotions. These five competencies are the core of the EI skill set. Self-awareness— is the ability to assess your own skills and to understand your personal emotional landscape. Human dilemmas are not so quickly diagnosed or repaired.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. Billhardt and Kracklauer : Learning is fundamentally a social activity. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?"

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

To remain effective, we need to challenge ourselves to shed activities or structures that dont advance our clearly defined mission. Prioritizing people can take many forms, such as ongoing reviews of team performance against mission-aligned objectives, creating incentives for innovation, or identifying skills for future needs.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Some of that adaptation will require higher educational attainment, or spending more time on activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive capabilities, and other skills relatively hard to automate.” Discover New Talent Skill building is also a way to discover hidden talent.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nonprofit organizations need funding and support, whether through in-kind contributions, skilled volunteers, or monetary donations. For example, American Red Cross offers training programs for volunteers with specific skills to help during a time of need. Activate your campaigns.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. Although leadership courses may be part of more recent IT management degrees, relationship building is a skill that requires commitment and practice. EI skills can help IT professionals take their communications and leadership ability to new levels of effectiveness.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

With competition for skilled professionals rising and work environments shifting, finding and keeping great talent takes more than just passion. Encourage team-building activities that foster understanding and collaboration. ByJackie Sue Griffin The nonprofit world isnt what it used to be. It takes strategy.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

When I began my career in associations, activities were more seasonal,” Sharon observed. To maximize that potential, it’s important to open space for newly acquired skills to grow and develop. Lack of fulfillment in your day-to-day activities. You don’t have to have a finger on the pulse of every activity.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Your best-in-class finance team requires different levels of skills and experience depending on their role. How do you know the skill level of someone applying for your finance team, and if they are task-based or strategic? Help enforce established internal controls and policies, actively and by setting a strong example.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Mancini: For those who aren’t familiar, Black Girls Code is an organization that works to inspire, educate, and launch the next generation of technologists by equipping them with the skills and confidence to lead in a field where they’ve historically been underrepresented.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Relief organizations have a roster of affiliated volunteers who are skilled in the work of disaster response, such as search and rescue. Many do not have specialized skills but do have a passion to help those left hungry or stranded by a flood, hurricane, or fire. Prevent burnout by scheduling volunteers in shifts of two or four hours.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Activities that promote team cohesion and open communication can significantly enhance trust within the team. Some takeaways for National Leadership Day Whether helming a business, a nonprofit or a local community initiative, leaders should recognize that being trustworthy isnt just a soft skill. Promote collaboration.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2024

It not only provides essential workforce and skills but also fosters a sense of community and purpose. In the UK and Ireland, Gen Zers are the most active volunteers (23%), followed by Millennials (16%) and Baby Boomers (16%). There are, however, some generational and regional differences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2022

Thus, if nonprofits want to hire and retain skilled employees in an economy with record low unemployment, then they will need to continue to evolve their operations beyond the traditional office environment. Positions actively posted and recruited for on Foundation List include part-time and full-time positions from executive to entry-level.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

The competitive landscape is crowded, the workforce has shifted, and digital skills are the norm. A diverse mix of skills and perspectives : Prioritize professional and organizational development. Build a positive culture that includes a spectrum of skills, value diversity, equity, and inclusion in thought and demographics.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

Professional growth can include developing new skills, taking on stretch assignments, learning from peers, and advocating for promotions. Thats why organizations spend thousands of dollars on all-staff retreats, team-building activities, and happy hours. January is a great time to look to the year ahead and commit to new goals.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Signing bonuses are most prevalent in jobs where employers are still actively recruiting people at really high levels, and if we look at where those jobs are, we see that those tend to be in healthcare, with a lot of in-person, skilled labor, hands-on jobs, Stahle says.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

LinkedIn is expanding its casual gaming lineup with Zip , a new puzzle designed to challenge problem-solving skills. Earned every five wins, up to two freezes can be stored per game, activating automatically when a day is missed. Following the success of Queens and Tango , Zip offers a faster, more accessible experience.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

In short: if today's AI is any indication, tomorrow's AI is going to flatten just as many high-skilled jobs as it will low-skilled. But it's clear that the AI dystopia is already upon us, actively making conditions worse for workers right now. 5 percent drop in job opportunities and a 1.7

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Support Adaptation Emotional intelligence offers a path to support teams and helps them acquire the skills to become digitally proficient. Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. Social skills— along with empathy help teams successfully collaborate to get work done.

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

But his magnum opus was a "kill switch," a string of code called "IsDLEnabledinAD," an abbreviation of "Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory?" Cyberslacking, in a word. The code was dormant so long as the system's response was "yes."

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These are all valuable skills, especially in a world where you get a fraction of a second to capture supporters attention. As a manager, I have hired full teams, helped lead the build out of new development departments, skilled up new team members, and dealt directly with turnover of a younger team.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Brainstorm ways to get donors actively involved with your organization through events, surveys, and volunteer opportunities. When you’re busy working towards fulfilling your nonprofit’s mission, it can be easy to forgo the time needed to invest in “auxiliary” tasks that build your skills and fuel your mission. Engagement.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Organizations also lose valuable institutional knowledge and skills when experienced employees quit, hampering innovation, continuity and long-term strategy. Belonging requires an active commitment to the five core indicators of belonging: comfort, connection, psychological safety and well-being.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

A person with dementia recently introduced us to their voice-activated AI companion, with which they watch and discuss films. By outsourcing them to digital technologies, we can free up our ageing workforces to use their unmatched skills, such as networking and experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We’ll also look at how popular fundraising activities can be adapted to these different galas and what online platforms you can use to help build a better fundraising strategy. However, this hinged upon adapting a fundraising events strategy that could adapt popular activities and events to online and hybrid venues.

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