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Building Sustainable Value Chains From Hemp and Flowers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Guillaume Carton & Julia Parigot Industrial activities are one of the main causes of the depletion of natural resources. Given the increasing complexity of global value chains, monitoring the sustainable use of resources across all of an industry’s stakeholders is virtually impossible. In 2023, this occurred on August 2.

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5 Must-Have Productivity Software Products Nonprofits Need to Be Effective in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. Adopting the right productivity software doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive.

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Creating a Unique Value Proposition for Your Nonprofit (Part 1)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Today and tomorrow, we welcome guest blogger Sean Kosofsky to explain an important marketing concept for all nonprofits to understand: Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP). A unique value proposition (UVP) is an underutilized and really effective tool. The language and steps are really geared toward selling services and products.

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Lifelong Development as a Nonprofit Leader – The Value of Forum

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

But because of their small size and private nature, they’re still unknown to many people who could get value from them. Peer-learning is one of the most effective ways to learn because it encourages active learning. Forums also offer access to a greater variety of perspectives.

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How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These traditional approaches often include set and inflexible timelines, budgets, and activities designed by donors who are removed from the local context. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means. Productization encourages funders to focus less on the challenge they seek to fund and more on how they fund it.

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Uprooting Oppressive Values in Social Change Work through Emotional Intelligence

NonProfit Quarterly

So it is with our behaviors and our values: our deeply ingrained patterns of behavior are fueled by values deep below the surface. Sometimes, without our conscious awareness, these values driving our patterns of behavior sprout from the seeds of White supremacy, patriarchy, and colonialism. She is experiencing chronic burnout.

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Effective Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Nonprofit Talent

NonProfit Leadership Center

These stories can appeal to potential employees’ values and emotions. Talk to your staff to ensure they feel valued and fulfilled. There are also donor engagement and tracking tools that streamline data visualization and donor activity. Often ROWE leads to higher productivity, lower time costs, and higher job satisfaction.

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