Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Education was her way out, but when she signed up for graduate studies at New York University, she returned to live with her parents and became involved in and reacquainted with her neighborhood. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation. Naturally, she was eager to escape.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

You’re right, universities can be very expensive. While most colleges do a great job equipping students with core skills like critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills, given the many demands of employers, there’s a lot of learning that needs to take place outside of the traditional school environment.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Learning how to effectively work remotely is also important since many jobs offer remote and hybrid options. In the nonprofit sector , 19% of jobs listings are remote and 38% are hybrid. When confronted with a problem, try setting a time limit. Ask your manager what resources are available.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2022

It’s all their fault, because it was their job – not anyone else’s. So, the fundraiser is looked upon as someone who did their distasteful job (no big deal), and now is asked to do even more next time. The average new fundraiser leaves their job in only 16 months. Because… money. No one likes to talk about it. The “Wiseman.”

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Be there when your volunteers arrive.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Within the values universe, it’s your job to convey where you sit/what you do/why what you do is necessary/and that you’re effective doing it. Your next job is to uncover folks who share the values your organization enacts. If you neglect this part of your job as a philanthropy facilitator, your community will evaporate.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Part of the job of being a true philanthropy facilitator is showing donors how they might benefit from being a little more generous. This results in more money for your mission, more satisfied donors, and more solutions to the world’s most pressing problems! . Current Tax Incentives. What are they? Download Donor Letter (DOC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The people with skills are out there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

They made a great team: Steve was an enthusiastic salesman/CEO, passionate about building up Kenya through good IT jobs, and Carol ran the team. They recruited their staff from Nairobi slums as well as students from poor rural backgrounds who had made it to Nairobi universities. No problem!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

He talks about the issues of scaling: First, it is important to keep moving the creative, adaptive edge of the network outward so that the universe of the network expands in three dimensions, even as it populates with forms. A five-minute problem shouldn’t take 15 minutes. O ( open architecture is best): We try to build forms (i.e.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany. A recent graduate of Rice University, Lum is working on her PhD in statistics at Duke University. As an intern, Kristian has spent her summer doing what she loves: statistical analysis.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Indeed, a spring break sojourn was, and is, a de rigueur part of the university experience as much as dorm rooms, lecture halls and frat parties. There was a time when that annual rite of passage known as spring break meant one thing for nearly every college student: the chance to let loose—usually in a warm climate—and party down.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Sometimes it is pointed to as an example of the limits of hyper specialization and silos (because, for instance, the timpanist cannot offer much to the cellist in terms of solving playing problems and vice versa). Problems arise when the structure is not suited to the situation or challenge at hand. So that’s it in a nutshell.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

The best way to do that would be to make the problem disappear, right? The mistake cost him his job and his company its contract, but many people were more concerned about how Chrysler handled it. Moral of the story: ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away and can even make it worse. You couldn't be more wrong.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people. It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. A universal service for the masses.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And some may love the tech part of their jobs, but it will remain a small, incidental (accidental?) I often refer back to a 2003 article by Barbara Kaufman published in University Business magazine called Transforming Your CIO. I always tell people that my job is 50% knowledge and skill, and 50% knowing the people I work for.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Learn about the problem, the effects, and the solutions. It embodies the universal instinct to protect and care for children. Tenacity — Climate change is not a quick-fix problem, and building a movement takes time. It’s in the next few years that decisions are taken, or not taken, that will impact our kids’ lives forever.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Back in the early 1990s, I had a day job studying nonprofit spending and reporting as part of something called the Nonprofit Overhead Cost Study , a joint project between the Urban Institute and Indiana University. report on whether a nonprofit is doing a good job at what it does. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Most jobs will have some parts of it automated, freeing up those people to do more human things like build stronger relationships and solve complex problems. How to get the best out of both and, as a result, re-make work as something better than the always on, 24/7 grind it has become. You can read the article here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 27, 2013

Allow ad hoc teams among employees to form to address organizational problems and work with those teams to tackle the identified issues. For long-term employees, find ways to keep their jobs interesting through new assignments and challenges. Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Allow ad hoc teams among employees to form to address organizational problems and work with those teams to tackle the identified issues. For long-term employees, find ways to keep their jobs interesting through new assignments and challenges. Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After college, she began a job as a Dean of Scholar Support at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. All the way through, she has been thoughtful, collaborative, and willing to listen and to problem-solve.” She finished high school and decided to go to community college.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Kiva’s team of data scientists and software engineers partnered with the DataRobot AI for Good program to help solve this problem by improving the way loans are promoted to lenders. Featured Photo: ICT Education and Job Creation for Rural Africa by Learning Lions gUG. LEARN MORE.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 3, 2012

Allow ad hoc teams among employees to form to address organizational problems and work with those teams to tackle the identified issues. For long-term employees, find ways to keep their jobs interesting through new assignments and challenges. Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2011

Though not universal, it's true that people continue to volunteer and contribute money in support of organizations doing good work in our communities. A donor will select the one (or ones) they believe are doing the best job, and they may not remain loyal to an organization if they perceive another is doing the job better.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

Allow ad hoc teams among employees to form to address organizational problems and work with those teams to tackle the identified issues. For long-term employees, find ways to keep their jobs interesting through new assignments and challenges. Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

One recent study at Stanford University determined staff were more creative when they were walking versus sitting and encouraged walking meetings for more innovation. Whatever you goals, it is important to frame why you think a walking meeting is a better fit for the job and frame the issue you want to address before.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. You can sponsor and share research that may help with many of the world’s problems. Because there’s too much work to be done! How hard is your nonprofit working?

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2021

There’s no mention of specific benefits like meeting people with shared values; making new friendships; networking; developing job skills, or fulfilling a moral or religious obligation.]. “Do So a single brochure might not do the job for you?”. Do you know where to find these potential volunteers?”. Maybe at schools? Places of worship?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 8, 2011

And, over 65 percent of performance problems are caused by employee conflicts. Unfortunately, conflict in the workplace is inevitable. In fact, research shows that 42 percent of a manager's time is spent addressing conflict. Managers new in their leadership role typically have had little to no training on how to deal with conflict.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 26, 2011

Allow ad hoc teams among employees to form to address organizational problems and work with those teams to tackle the identified issues. For long-term employees, find ways to keep their jobs interesting through new assignments and challenges. Conduct meetings around specific issues and brainstorm solutions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

As bad as these corrupt nonprofits are, they're not the biggest problem facing the social sector, according to Berger. The problem isn't even dwindling funding or the need to minimize spending on overhead. The biggest problem, as he sees it, is that most nonprofits can't prove their work has any real impact.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 30, 2019

In doing so, problems that cause a lack of high-performance culture, like turnover and rigidity, crumble and dissipate. They become more autonomous, more confident and perform better at their jobs. Different people provide different solutions to unique problems. All job tasks are necessary, and each circle is valuable.

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BoardAssist

MAY 27, 2014

If they don’t have clear expectations, they are setting themselves up for problems either now or later. Board members understand that their job is not just to come to meetings and pontificate. Each board member knows what his or her job is. Everybody has to be clear on their purpose and what their job is. Decision Making.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Problem Solving. General problem-solving skills, as well as company specific troubleshooting standards, can go a long way in preparing the workforce for elements of the job they do not anticipate. Perhaps the most difficult component of a new job is figuring out how to appropriately manage one’s time.

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