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Go Deeper On Your Learning

Go Deeper On Your Learning

I think a lot about a metaphor my education professor used to talk about learning: A learning program is like a fence. A strong fence has posts that go deep enough to reach solid, stabilizing ...
Starting a Nonprofit: New toolkit available!

Starting a Nonprofit: New toolkit available!

There are 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States. Washington typically sees 4,000 new nonprofits formed each year. How do we make sure people have what they need to think about the ...
Effective trainers: a key element to building a strong nonprofit sector

Effective trainers: a key element to building a strong nonprofit sector

“Thank you! These workshops gave me so much useful information, tangible information to use!” You need to know a lot to run a nonprofit organization. You need a well-honed set of skills and ...
Introducing “Now What?”

Introducing “Now What?”

We nonprofit people face the ebb and flow of good and bad fortune. Our ability to achieve our mission is not always up to us. The stars align—or don’t – and things happen that we need to respond ...
What do you hope to achieve this year? Start there when thinking about what to learn.

What do you hope to achieve this year? Start there when thinking about what to learn.

January is a time when we think about goals, aspirations, new initiatives, and strategy. We hope for success knowing that the busyness of the day-to-day will soon distract us from long term ...
The secret behind the toolkits

The secret behind the toolkits

Ever wonder what goes into developing Washington Nonprofits' nationally (and internationally!) acclaimed toolkits? We are excited to be participating in Learning • Technology • Design, a virtual ...
Imagining a New Way to Lead

Imagining a New Way to Lead

The New Network Leader coming to Spokane on October 26 Small nonprofits work hard to grow and expand their impact. Large organizations struggle to stay close to the people they are trying to ...
A new tool to find relevant data for your organization

A new tool to find relevant data for your organization

Do you wish you had better data about the community you serve? Not sure where to start? Headwaters Economics, a research consulting firm based in Montana, has developed some tools that aggregate ...
Planning for Action Will Help Your Board Members Forget to Be Forgetful

Planning for Action Will Help Your Board Members Forget to Be Forgetful

You will remember about 58 percent of this after 20 minutes, 33 percent after a day. That’s according to one study, with other studies showing varying levels of forgetting after you learn new ...
Architecture of Action: Connecting conferences with change

Architecture of Action: Connecting conferences with change

Conferences fill ballrooms with people eager for inspiration, who then spill out into workshop rooms where they learn and connect with colleagues. That energy can be like a sugar rush – we reach ...

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