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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Brian Hetzer is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. Team building. Plan opportunities for volunteers to have fun together.

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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. He seems to define social entrepreneurs as rapacious for-profit businesspeople who are modeling “themselves on the Steve Jobses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world.” Avoid indiscriminate dissemination of packaged interventions.

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Nonprofit Blog Exchange

Have Fun - Do Good

I want to highlight a blog that I've been reading for a while, the Tutor Mentor Connection blog written by Daniel Bassill out of Chicago, Illinois. His blog gathers information and provides networking opportunities for people, like Daniel, who are involved with volunteer-based tutoring and mentoring programs.

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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

” He cited Portal 2, one of the games in Valve’s portfolio, as breaking the mold of a traditional game model by eschewing the conventional collection of monsters or weapons and positioning itself instead as a game about physics and problem-solving. Players raised over $1.5 million in just five days.

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Salesforce Employees & Tsofen Prepare Israel’s Arab Students for Jobs in Tech

Saleforce Nonprofit

Salesforce employees in Israel volunteer their time to mentor local Arab Israeli youth for successful careers in the tech industry. Educational and career exposure activities for high school, college, and university students , and graduates pursuing STEM studies. My mentor Karim Fanadka was very invested in guiding me.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

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. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: "If you have to leave, why did you.

ASU Lodestar Center

In our reflection session at the end of the last day, she wondered out loud to the group, "Even if I was able to help Zee by being a role model and helping her with her homework, was it really worth it?" Ambika - Yes, especially with mentors, I've seen organizations ask for those types of commitments. Central Ave.

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