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Kids for a Cause: Getting Children Behind Nonprofit Missions

Top Nonprofits

Nonprofit organizations offer a unique way for the kids in your children’s ministry to practice life application. Getting behind a nonprofit cause can actually support their faith when they serve others and work to better their community. Plus, they’ll build new relationships when they become part of the nonprofit’s community.

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Why Common Core Will Fail

Ken Goldstein

The problem wasn''t that she or her students didn''t have access to uniform, national curriculum standards. Ask the kids dropping out from either school if the lack of unified national curriculum standards was at fault. When she tied the assignment to their desires and interests - to their passions - 85% turned it in.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose. Well, thank you so much.

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I Owe You an Update

Fundraising Leadership

Based on my book Intentioning , I’m teaching it to live online in mastermind format, one hour a week for 13 weeks. The 9 Leadership Power Tools to Advance Your Career course remains the core curriculum, perfect for early or mid-career women. Please tell organizations you’re connected with about it. Double your donation here.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.

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Bringing Climate into the Classroom: New Hampshire Students Push for Increased Climate Literacy

NonProfit Quarterly

—Sarah Weintraub, 18, 350NH Youth Team-member For over a year, beginning in 2023, the 350NH Youth Organizing Program has been spearheading an effort to increase education about climate change in public schools throughout New Hampshire. 5 Now, the teens are setting their sights on schools. 34 “I think some of the teachers are nervous.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Another approach—and one that can also face resistance—is what is known as the worker self-directed nonprofit, which applies management strategies in the worker co-op sector to nonprofits. 45 There are additional steps as well that movements can and must take beyond the nonprofit sector. 49 There are many examples of this.