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How should nonprofits develop a high-performance culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

They become more autonomous, more confident and perform better at their jobs. Nonprofit organizations must change their hierarchical systems to become more fluid. All job tasks are necessary, and each circle is valuable. Once goals and processes are clearly defined, employees need less involvement from management.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Youth unemployment was a critical issue for the city at that time – an issue that aligned with John Hancock’s business goals of providing meaningful job opportunities to young people in the community as well as helping them to be better prepared to enter the workforce. How did these groups come together?

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. What the Frac?

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. She covers nonprofit technology, social actions, and social change. Blogs by Gen Y. Philanthropy.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. I got a group of 8 teens together and I taught them a simple Photoshop project. So, their after school program became their after school job as well. Any secondary interests?

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. We just have to think differently about how we craft job positions and expectations. and "why?" to "how?". What is participation for? Empowerment?

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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