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Leadership Development Beyond Projects

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. Leadership program projects are not typically designed with the long term in mind.

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Five tectonic technology shifts changing our world, our work and our potential

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

The title of this post is the name of a speech I gave yesterday in Charlotte for the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Leadership Program. The social action shift. The idea: Technology has made it easy for people to take small, easy actions in support of a cause. Thanks to everyone who was there live! Mine your data.

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27] Participants were entered into a drawing to win €100 less any amount they had chosen in advance to donate to the charitable cause if they won the drawing.) [15] 27] had offsetting effects.