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Heather is an experienced Nonprofit Manager, Researcher, Trainer, and Blogger. She teaches and presents on a variety of topics in the nonprofit sector and she participates on a variety of national nonprofit committees including the Nonprofit Sector Workforce Coalition and Independent Sector's NGen Advisory Committee.
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Nonprofit Leadership 601
In this blog I write about nonprofit leadership, nonprofit careers, the nonprofit workforce, nonprofit technology, and nonprofit management education.
For the second year in a row the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research has co-produced the National Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey. This year the survey respondents included over 450 nonprofit organizations representing a variety of subsectors and budget sizes. The report received a variety of press coverage: Chronicle of Philanthropy Nonprofit Times [...]
I made a conscious decision to not LIVE blog the ARNOVA conference. I wanted to reflect on the various topics and themes that emerged during the conference before blogging about them. I did tweet during the conference. One of the main themes of the conference was the struggle between research that builds theory and research [...]
In 2006, American Humanics compiled a comprehensive bibliography about the nonprofit workforce titled, Workforce Issues in the Nonprofit Sector: Generational Leadership Change and Diversity. Since this bibliography was released, nonprofit organizations have continued to struggle to understand and appreciate human resource management and succession planning practices. Organizations like, Commongood Careers and Nonprofit HR Solutions are [...]
Over the past five months I served as the team leader for the 2010 Nonprofit Employment Trends Survey, a research project of the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research.Nonprofit HR Solutions (a Washington DC based nonprofit human resources consulting firm) approached us to work on this national survey of nonprofit employment practices. I [...]
Message from American Humanics: American Humanics (AH) is seeking your input to assure that work ready talent is available to organizations and agencies who serve families, our communities and the world. American Humanics is the only national organization bringing together nonprofit organizations and higher education for the purpose of credentialing future nonprofit managers and leaders. [...]
In today’s society we want information fast and to the point causing us to make assumptions and generalizations about the sector or society as a whole. Too often this sound bite mentality/culture prevents us learning the real truth behind what we read. Here are examples of three news headlines: “A Growing Leadership Gap: Need for [...]
I was in the middle of writing a blog post about a community impact study when I saw that Give and Take featured a lively discussion (hosted by Ken Berger) about organizational impact and community impact. I agree with Ken and Hildy in their discussion of impact. As Ken stated, many nonprofits do not incorporate [...]
Tonight during the teaching section workshop we learned about Research Service Learning that was defined as “a collaborative teaching and learning strategy designed to promote academic enhancement, personal growth, civic learning, and the development of research capacities. Students render meaningful service—which include research activities—in community settings that present them with experiences related to academic material” [...]
Next week I’ll be attending the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action ARNOVA annual conference in Cleveland, OH and I am super excited!! This year I’ll be part of ARNOVA’s social media team so stay tuned for updates via this blog, the ARNOVA website, and twitter #arnova09. I have to say ARNOVA [...]
I was working on one of my many research reports last week and my colleague said, “Isn’t it great we have Microsoft Word and we can easily move around sections of your paper? I used a typewriter when I was doing my dissertation and it was a pain.” Wow, I thought to myself, I really [...]
