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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The types of individuals joining the UN are usually trained in negotiation, political science, and international relations, where technical know-how and managerial skills are not pronounced. This not only manifests itself in the organizations’ cultures but is also reflected in their allocation of financial and human resources.

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

The conscious cultivation of awareness, or the application of awareness-based practices that teach us how to pay attention to our own experience as a witness—and therefore a subject of life rather than an object that life is happening to—can be incredibly empowering.

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

shopsmarter ” In her early years of entrepreneurship after graduating from York University in 1994 with a double degree in mass communications and political science, Vinderine, who stands just under 5 feet tall, says she endured not only gender bias, but height bias when connecting with funders and clients in person. “As

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Events and Communications Specialist

Anedot

. ● Manage website content, including coming up with ways to effectively store and distribute Sonoma Ecology Center’s research and outside land management resources ● Support media relations, including developing press contacts, identifying news opportunities, pitching stories, and coordinating interviews ● Develop communications and fundraising strategies (..)

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Writer / Content Creator

Anedot

Reading, speaking, and writing skills in Spanish is a big plus Physical Requirements: This is a traditional office job, one which requires sitting, typing, standing, and being at a computer workstation for lengthy periods of time.

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Writer / Content Creator

Anedot

Reading, speaking, and writing skills in Spanish is a big plus Physical Requirements: This is a traditional office job, one which requires sitting, typing, standing, and being at a computer workstation for lengthy periods of time.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. A culture doesn’t like silence. That is going to allow you to focus.