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Africa Mentoring Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Joitske , Nancy White , and Britt Bravo , I read about The African Mentoring Project , run by Ore Somolu from Nigeria and who I know from the Global s projects. I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project. So, I immediately emailed Ore to volunteer as a mentor. Some day.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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As the company started to grow, having a clear foundation and keeping it alive and well, was a key component of Zappos’ business success. “As Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Great culture leads to employee happiness; happy employees drive higher engagement and profitability, and low turnover.

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Reflections from Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map Interactive Working Sessions for Packard Foundation Grantees

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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Why I Love @Canva for Nonprofits and Why You Should Too

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event. I’ve also taught social media to young people in Cambodia.

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Understanding what vision means in a ‘visionary founder’

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Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner at Seedcamp , an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through monthly Seedcamp Events, where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. “If Where to find your vision.

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Announcing ImpactRising.Org: Organizational Capacity Building Resource for Nonprofits and Consultants

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. The project is funded by the Packard Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, and The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Feng Shui of Good Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I designed and facilitated a day and half session for the Nonprofit Leadership Institute co-sponsored every year by Pepperdine University Nonprofit Management program and Ventura County Community Foundation. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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