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The Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Times , Social Innovation Review , and Nonprofit Quarterly are a few industry specific publications that are considered "go to" sources of knowledge. The ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit News (LCNN) is a free source of information sent to your inbox bi-monthly, and it's stuffed with knowledge and tools.
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Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. What do people love about working here? Cassie Scarano, Commongood Careers. [Ed. Now it is time to translate that vision into reality. Screening Candidates.
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pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.
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Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. work in providing life-changing solutions that help all people with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play. Carmen left me a follow up comment.
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In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. George Orwell: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director.
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Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. So I’m going to pipe down because people don’t want to hear from me, they want to hear from you. And when people ask why I do the work that I do, I like to share my own mission. She works over at CCS.
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Actually, you’ve been coming on since last March just to kind of give us an update on what’s going on in the grants world, which I know people have been really appreciative of. A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. I know that there are a couple people that mentioned moving to virtual programming.
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