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What Should Nonprofit Leaders Expect from the Development Officer?

Get Fully Funded

A good software program, professional development opportunities for the development staff, and an investment in things such as research tools and consulting and training help for the development office can reap huge rewards.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

In August of 2005, she had barely begun getting things in order when Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck. Nancy Jo says that CACRC’s next frontier is to get computers and training to seniors. Their volunteers already do trainings in the libraries. They persuaded her to run the place long enough to get it back on its feet.

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New Balance’s Boston Marathon Ambush Lacks Cause

Selfish Giving

I love how Boston-based New Balance is attacking the Boston Marathon like I wish I had attacked Heartbreak Hill when I ran the great race in 2005. But that doesn’t mean New Balance couldn’t have sponsored a charity team and splashed their logo all over their training and race-day apparel.

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How to Manage People Who Work Remotely

Tech Soup

since 2005. Yet even in the most optimal open work environments, certain tasks, meetings, trainings, and creative processes are either impossible or severely limited if employees can't meet face-to-face. Call it what you will, telework or telecommuting or remote work has grown nearly 80 percent in the U.S.

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Tech Impact Helps Nonprofits Open a Door to the Cloud

Tech Soup

" He joined NCFR in 2005 as an administrative assistant and is now the organization's primary IT person, supporting 15 staff members. Samuels is what nonprofits often refer to as an "accidental techie."

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The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy

WT Grant Foundation

Having developed from a pilot program in 2005, the Foundation’s mentoring grants also emphasize the importance of diversifying the field, most notably in the program’s explicit focus on supporting the career growth of junior researchers of color.

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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

I am an economist by training. The number of such competitions has grown from 36 in 2005-09 to almost 600 in 2015-20. But when my colleagues at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and I established Lever for Change five years ago, we didn’t use any complex formula in setting our goal of mobilizing $1 billion by 2023.