Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The organization wants a consultant to lend credibility to a decision that has already been made, for example, the Board of Directors has decided to reorganize the nonprofit, but the Chief Executive Officer disagrees – so the Board hires a consultant to lend expert credibility to their decision. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Read more.].

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 21, 2006

This one was written for the January 2004 edition of "The Learning Curve" - The monthly newsletter of the Silicon Valley Chapter of ASTD (American Society for Training and Development). Perhaps you have had some experience giving your time and efforts to local nonprofit organizations, but find something lacking in the experience.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

These findings come at a critical time, as companies and governments face a gulf between the skills they need to stay competitive and the talent available. To start, governments should focus on providing women with greater access to broadband internet at an affordable price. Some governments are already taking steps in this direction.

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Accenture Education Government Wireless 30

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2018

Cyber risk is now firmly at the top of the international agenda as consumers, companies, and governments recognize the potential destructive impact of hack attacks and other security failures. Among them, the Arizona Cyber Warfare Range is a privately funded nonprofit entity with two locations in the Phoenix area.

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Government Education Engineering Wireless 28

The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 18, 2009

Has your nonprofit been overrun and overwhelmed recently with a flood of new volunteers? For those larger organizations, who are able to properly train, manage, and use these new volunteers, this is a wonderful resource. groused one nonprofit executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. can be a mixed blessing.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure needs more love, and more grant money. These include administration, facilities, information technology, employee training, equipment, human resources and sometimes – just sometimes – fundraising.

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Nonprofit Operations Information Technology Information Technology 33

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

When Subra Suresh was tapped to lead the National Science Foundation (NSF), in 2010, he saw that many of the pathbreaking discoveries developed through the agency’s grants weren’t finding their way to the marketplace, so he sought to foster better links between government and industry. Now there was a plan in place.

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Government Course Conference Productivity 36

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Perhaps it is time we give serious consideration to the development of a national electronic registry, either funded by government entities like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or coordinated by a nonprofit entity. Federal government support for this endeavor can assure administrative consistency.

Government 28

Government System Study Nonprofit 28

The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 25, 2006

Liz Heath, executive director of The Nonprofit Center in Tacoma, Washington, has an article in the Tacoma News Tribune advising nonprofits to let future board members in on whole truth. Proper preparation and full disclosure makes board life run much smoother and is the key to good governance.

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Recruiting Recruitment Nonprofit Talent 40

Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 3, 2010

He details our over-reliance on technical fixes and a tendency to match complicated technical systems with complicated governance structures. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development. This should work to the advantage of organizations that seriously listen, learn and adapt.

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Organizational Development Development Consulting Nonprofit 62

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

By placing teens in subsidized jobs with government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private employers, these programs were initially seen as a way to increase family earnings, improve future employment prospects, and reduce crime. To what degree did the program’s formal career readiness training enhance outcomes?

Government 28

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2013

We all have dreams for the nonprofit sector: increased individual giving, more effective boards, simplified government grant applications, better trained staff. So far the only time real, community, grass-roots nonprofits have been seen on reality TV is on shows like the Secret Millionaire. So, what do you think?

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Nonprofit Handbook Conference Meeting 72

Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2017

As one of the senior leaders in the government’s office of Military Community & Family Policy told me, “The number one reason for military professionals not being battle-ready is worry about the people at home.” Whatever your background, or your perspective on U.S. Be present while away.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Far too many great ideas for solving pressing social problems are not being applied at the scale they deserve, because thousands of nonprofit organizations are teetering on the brink of collapse. Consider the case of Hot Bread Kitchen, a training program for low-income women who want to work in the food industry in New York City.

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Nonprofit Case Interview Sales Training 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Here’s what we found: F-1 Visa “Optional Practical Training” Who’s eligible? This year of employment is known as “Optional Practical Training” or “OPT.” Most F-1 students apply for their optional practical training employment cards on their own and without the assistance of an attorney.

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Data Training Training Education 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

These jobs also open doors to even more lucrative employment in the private sector as well as prestigious judiciary and government roles. The salaries are unbeatable, six-figure sums that catapult young students to the top 5% of household incomes nationally and are often quadruple of those offered in other sectors of legal practice.

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Resumes Research Interviews Education 28

Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

The latter phrase refers to a field of well-trained people with expertise in guiding successful organizational development. This observation is from the creative theologically-trained mind of OD consultant and good friend, Mike Murray.). Fundraising for Nonprofits. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Training and Development.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 27, 2012

This model explains why some training-oriented OD efforts aimed at the individual often fail. The government was interested in finding out how to get housewives to use what were euphemistically called ‘variety meats’ (basically Spam), rather than prime cuts, since there was a meat shortage, and meat was needed for the soldiers overseas.

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Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Training and developing must be built into it on all levels – training and development that never stop. To find a truly effective board, you are much better advised to look in the nonprofit sector in our public corporations. How they do it may be quite different. Every enterprise is a learning and teaching institution.

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Management Enterprise Nonprofit Journal 40

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The H-1B Visa Process The H-1B visa was established, as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, to let companies recruit trained foreign workers (with at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent) to work in “specialty occupations” for which there are few qualified local candidates. Who gets H-1Bs?

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