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Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp

Affnetz

Assemble a Talented Team: Recruit a team of experienced, passionate, and qualified instructors, counselors, and support staff who can bring your STEAM camp to life. Ensure that your team members have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver high-quality educational experiences.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Back in 2019, during a listening tour of the seven rural Maine counties that border Canada, we learned that many people—predominantly women with a passion for early childhood education—would like to start a home- or facility-based childcare but lack the business acumen and confidence to get started. Recruiting a cohort is tricky.

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Nonprofit Board Give, Get or Get Off?

Affnetz

For example, I worked with a local educational Nonprofit that served children in public housing communities. When recruiting board members you flat-out cannot over-communicate the importance of fundraising and the responsibilities associated with board leadership. Recruit parents and or grandparents of students in the program.

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Christian Brothers University and Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Announce National Partnership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Earning a CNP credential will be a game changer as more and more of our graduates move into leadership roles in their organizations that make a difference in the lives of the children, families, and communities they serve. This is just one more way CBU walks out our Lasallian values and strengthens our workforce and community.”

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Building Nonprofit Capacity, Hand in Hand

Stanford Social Innovation Review

At Overdeck Family Foundation , which aims to improve educational opportunities for children, we firmly reject this binary, and embrace mutual accountability between strategic capacity building and trust-based philanthropy. We also provided a grant to heavily subsidize the cost of the fellowship for LENA.

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Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The story I hear from so many of the board members I work with inside the Nonprofit Leadership Lab is something like, “I was originally recruited to the board to support the leadership of the organization.” This references Robert McCloskey’s children’s book many of us have read more than a few times.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,