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Board diversity strategies to help nonprofits achieve success

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jen Nation Fall 2020 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. In high-performing, flexible organizations, this openness to productive change–inclusion–becomes the status quo,” write Scott Nielsen and Helena Huang in the National Civic Review. Invest in training. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

President , Sigma Kappa National Housing Corporation. They then bring in volunteers without first setting up the appropriate infrastructure to orient, train, supervise, and recognize them properly. They strive to make volunteers feel a part of the team from the beginning with structured and comprehensive orientation and training.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Serving The LGBTQ+ Community

Bloomerang

The Visibility Impact Fund seeks to support and empower bi+ specific organizations, programming, and training to impact bi+ visibility and well-being. is the first national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting, resourcing, and building the capacity of Black trans social justice leaders. Visibility Impact Fund. Mary’s Pence.

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Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix

The Verge

Between January and December 2019, Waymo’s vehicles with trained safety drivers drove 6.1 The company says it also counts events in which its trained safety drivers assume control of the vehicle to avoid a collision. Waymo hasn’t disclosed how many of its vehicles operate without safety drivers.). million miles.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

With 9 facilities in Iowa up and running and talks progressing with dozens more ahead of a planned 2022 launch, the company may soon usher in a fundamental change in how incarcerated people access communication and education. “The news is Ameelio is actually doing it, at two facilities and just we just signed our first county.

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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. The National Endowment for the Arts has the Our Town program, which supports arts projects that make communities more livable. The Resource Gap in Rural Funding.

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