Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

If you’re an intern, like me, the percentage only increases, with nearly all of Candid’s fall 2023 interns working from their homes and schools across the country. As my internship comes to a close, I decided to ask my fellow interns at Candid what they’ve learned about working remotely. Be sure to add them to LinkedIn as well.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, obtaining high-dollar individual gifts will require different connections and skills than ensuring government funding. Holmes, an educational programming manager at Candid, and Kate Tkacik Sweeney, Candids senior director of development, offer advice. How nonprofit boards can support a sustainable funding strategy.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Applicants must be employed by a non-Spanish company or freelance for international clients and demonstrate a minimum income of around 2,762.66. Spain offers reliable internet, a growing number of coworking hubs, and strong communities of international creatives and founders. Available to non-EU nationals, including U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book offers lots of great advice on using many of Facebook features like Events. No coding ability, no design skills. What is your best advice about moderation and dealing with spammers or trolls? This book was definitely a labor of love, but in a good way. What are some of best practices for success?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 17, 2012

One piece of advice that aspiring nonprofit professionals should consider is to participate in an internship program. I have since had the opportunity to work at multiple nonprofit organizations as an intern, where I learned what I was good at, improved on many of my skills, and learned what makes a good internship program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. It’s a real skill to navigate and guide the online commons and know how and when to react. Creativity combined with the ability to multitask is the winning combination of skills for an effective social media manager. Is creative and detail-oriented.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Learning this type of information about your volunteers can help your organization best utilize each volunteer to further your mission and even extend your internal team’s work. How your team collects and shares information internally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The effective use of social networks is a skill not to be underestimated. If you want your nonprofit to be highly shared, retweeted, +1’d, repinned, and liked, then you absolutely must have photo-editing skills and a digital image library to work with. Engage authentically. Your nonprofit is not a person.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Two years ago, Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in her business' newsletter. So, here goes.Lynn's year-end advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Run through the fear rather than running away from it. Take a personal risk.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

If youve been told that you need to get better at influencing upward, then youve probably received some of this advice: Come with solutions, not problems! By stepping out of the order taker role and into a respected advisor mindset, youre leveling the playing field. Theres a method to managing up. Build trust with leadership! Be proactive!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

email addresses are not allowed, and as a general rule, should not be used for your nonprofit communications publicly or internally. For example, Plan International’s website : 2) Post 2-3 times weekly to your LinkedIn Page and respond to your followers. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The admissions process for international students applying to colleges is outdated. Instead, international students must navigate thousands of schools, each having their own requirements and application process, on a one by one basis. 8 edtech investors talk re-skilling, digital universities, ISAs and other post-pandemic trends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

An expert on agricultural economics and spatial analysis, Jerry most recently served as a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC, where he led major projects on food security and climate change issues.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’m a big believer in getting volunteers and interns to help be part of this growing space. What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? My advice would be to ask around – see who’s already interested in social media in their personal life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? The vendor will craft the system and recommendations according to your internal constraints and capabilities. Ask for advice on how to improve it. Is your website a one-person operation? Ask if your pricing and timeline estimate is realistic.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Last year, Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in her business' newsletter. So, here goes.Lynn's year-end advice for leaders: • Do something that you are afraid to do. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice. Run through the fear rather than running away from it. Take a personal risk.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Nathan Parcells is co-founder and CMO of InternMatch , an online platform connecting the best intern candidates and employers. The past year was eventful for a number of reasons, including new iPhones , next-gen consoles, and intern lawsuits. Compensating your interns for their hard work isn’t a foreign concept.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Scan the Landscape Internal collaboration is important, but it is only the beginning. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Individuals who excel in this role have great communication skills and can leverage your nonprofit’s network to find new donors. They’ll also need strong writing and communication skills to create proposals and interact with grantmakers.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 2, 2024

We relied on each other for advice early in our careers and now, decades later, I continue to learn from her. If they have the work ethic, the drive, the tenacity, and mostly the adaptability—to me, the top skill for a fundraiser—we can teach them everything fundraising, the giving mechanisms, and how to make the ask,” White said.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

The matrix is a diagram that helps the board outline its current characteristics, pinpoints gaps in demographics or talent, and identifies what skills are needed in the future. My colleague Joanna Pineda, Founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc. The matrix allows you to explore creative options.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2014

The person I turn to for effective communication advice, David Grossman, has released a new eBook called, Top 10 Barriers Communicators Face: How to Get Your Leader on Board with Internal Communication. Communicating Communications Skills David Grossman Effective Communication'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Giving Tuesday is an international day of charitable giving at the beginning of the Christmas and holiday season. A Facebook Group for for nonprofit professionals to share ideas and advice about the best ways to use social media to share their stories.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

Today he begins a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Starting a fast-growing tech business is incredibly challenging, and requires a variety of skills. Investing in your own knowledge and skills, means investing in your dream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another example includes using AI to optimize volunteer engagement by aligning opportunities with individual skills and interests. Devi’s advice: understand the best use case for your organization and how you and your staff work best with the AI. In other words, use all your critical thinking skills.

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

Read as they share their unique journeys to leadership and even more powerful—the advice they would give to their younger selves. . That’s really where I started building my skills, my confidence, and learning how to navigate the industry. Share a piece of advice you’d give your younger self. Amy Small.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. EWF International provides professionally facilitated peer advisory groups for women business owners and executives. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many of the characteristics we identified are the same skills that entrepreneurs use to grow start-up ventures. I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 Joanna Pineda, founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix Group International, Inc.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This year, hundreds of nonprofit experts have shared their advice, practical tips, and real-world solutions all to help the larger community navigate the complexities of running a nonprofit. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

But remember, good curation is not about the tools, but how you use them along with your curation skills. But how do you build your radar and hone your discovery skills? Here’s some advice based on the content curation skills identified by Robin Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

They also build enthusiasm through programs like internal competitions, user group meetings, and lunch-and-learns. Communities are good for people—and that’s good for business Communities provide the framework for internal and external peer-to-peer collaboration that builds up organizations, their people, and their data-driven culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. There will be more technology support from new startups and tech companies aiming new niche and international markets. It’s something incredible.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

We also turned the assessment into an opportunity to better our product, align our internal teams, boost our brand and even launch partnerships. So here’s our advice on how teams can smoothly reach an SOC 3 while simultaneously balancing workloads and minimizing disruption to users. First, bring your teams on board.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2022

They are someone who is able to understand the personalities and skill sets at their disposal and adapt to best support and guide their team to a successful delivery. What’s your advice for future and aspiring technical architects at Forum One? To you, what is the biggest skill a technical architect needs to bring to the table?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Even so, working outside their skill set and interests in such a complex field as HR can become time-consuming and frustrating. Although basics like issuing paychecks can be handled through a payroll service, when it comes to benefits, compensation, and compliance, only a professional with up-to-date knowledge can be trusted for advice.

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