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VIDEO: Creating a Workplace That Really Works

April 14, 2013 – 2:02 pm

Thanks to Glenn McRea for sharing this with us. Harvard Business Review Webinar. A common refrain is, “We have to do more with less.” A common result is feelings among employees of overload and burnout. With higher demands and fewer resources, what’s the solution? Tony Schwartz, CEO of the Energy Project and a contributor to [...]

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VIDEO: Watch DoGooder Winners

April 14, 2013 – 1:28 pm

The DoGooder Video Awards were announced at the NTEN Conference this past week.  The submission categories were: Impact Award, Best Nonprofit Video, Funny For Good Video, and Change Agent Video.   Impact Award: END7: How to Shock a Celebrity   Best Nonprofit Video: Follow the Frog   Funny For Good Video: No Joke, Choice Matters [...]

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VIDEO: Got Data?

April 2, 2013 – 11:06 am

At the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013, UVM’s Center for Rural Studies presents how to access, use and best present federal and locally produced data to conduct market research, write grant applications and evaluate programs. Panelists include CRS staffers Michael Moser and Florence Becot. See the full Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 Report.  

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VIDEO: Results Based Accountability 201

April 2, 2013 – 10:59 am

Trine Bech presents Results Based Accountability 201 at the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 held at Lake Morey Resort on March 21st 2013.  Find more information on the Conference. Trine Bech presents Results Based Accountability 101 at the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 held at Lake Morey Resort on March 21st. Find more information on the Conference. [...]

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VIDEO: Benchmarks For A Better Vermont Panel

April 2, 2013 – 10:55 am

In 2012, seventeen Vermont nonprofits took up the challenge to strengthen their measurement capacity, better serve their clients and increase their sustainability through a federally funded project called Benchmarks for a Better Vermont. Leaders from the 12 month BBVT Performance Institute   discuss what they have gained and learned, along with the challenges of building their [...]

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VIDEO: Getting the Right Things Done: Strategies for Busy Nonprofit Leaders

April 2, 2013 – 10:51 am

At the Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013, Porter Knight, CPO of Productivity Vermont presents tips and resources to reclaim your precious time and energy. The hours in a day are finite yet the demands on your time seem limitless.  How can you effectively be a data-driven non-profit when you’re pulled in so many different directions?  This [...]

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Video: The Way We Think About Charity is Dead

March 14, 2013 – 10:29 am

Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend — not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let’s change the way we think about changing the world.

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Got Video? DoGooder Video Awards Looking For You

March 7, 2013 – 3:17 pm

Are you an individual or a nonprofit using video to make the world a better place? See3 Communications, YouTube, and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) are excited to present the DoGooder Awards. Help us honor the best work from people and organizations that are using video to create real impact for important causes. Winners will [...]

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Video: A Look at Wealth Inequality & Happiness

March 7, 2013 – 12:48 pm

Tom Barefoot, one of our close partners and leader of Gross National Happiness USA (GNHUSA) passed on these videos as examples of data visualization and a light-hearted look at well-being. How to Do Happiness – This video presents twelve principles that can help you to increase your level of HAPPINESS. Those principles were extracted from [...]

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Video: Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 Promo

February 25, 2013 – 12:15 pm

Lauren-Glenn Davitian highlights the upcoming Vermont Nonprofit Conference 2013 slated for March 21st in Lake Morey Resort in Fairlee Vermont. Learn more and Register.

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