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How should nonprofits develop a high-performance culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

Marcia Mintz, the CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Phoenix (BGCMP), defined a high-performance culture as, “When everybody at every level understands where their role fits into the organization and the plan to get where they want to go.”. Nonprofit organizations must change their hierarchical systems to become more fluid.

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

Connection Cafe

Over the last ten years, the MLK Scholars Program has brought together partners from across the social, public and private sectors to enact positive change in the Boston community. How did these groups come together? John Hancock also used existing relationships to bring nonprofits into the program, a key element that may be overlooked.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

To be effective, you need some more information from your co-workers, but something has changed since that initial meeting. Creating an overlap of between your goals and the organizational change you are trying to implement is key in creating successful buy-in.

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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. I'm excited for the university to be able to share and discuss new and innovative ideas in the field.

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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. I still feel strongly that there is no universal reason to encourage visitor participation. and "why?" to "how?". What is participation for?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement.

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