Website of the Week -- Youth Service America
Youth Service America (YSA)
improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young
people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles. YSA fulfills its mission
through four key strategies and program areas:
- Large-scale public mobilization campaigns such as Global Youth Service Day, Semester of Service and Service Vote;
- YSA Grants of more than $1 million annually, available to youth, schools & organizations around the world for youth-led service projects;
- Resources and trainings that equip youth and adult mentors to lead high-quality, high-impact service and service-learning programs;
- Recognition programs such as Everyday Young Heroes and the Harris Wofford Awards, which recognize exceptional youth and adult mentors who are champions of youth voice.
Go to: http://www.ysa.org
Publication of the Week
-- Finding Allies, Building Alliances: 8 Elements that Bring and Keep People
Together by Mike Leavitt and Rich McKeown
From the publisher: Your
business challenges extend far beyond you and your firm, to the competitors
within your industry and the regulators outside it. Finding solutions to larger
issues requires cooperation between diverse stakeholders, and in this rapidly
changing world, only those able to adapt and network successfully will produce
fast, competitive solutions. How can leaders successfully bridge divides and
turn competitors into collaborators? Leavitt and McKeown explain how a
well-chosen network can become a powerful alliance. Whether you're launching a
new partnership, or rehabilitating one already in progress, Finding Allies,
Building Alliances will help you find workable solutions to the most complex
problems.
- Written by Mike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah who brought the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, former US Secretary of Health and human services, and former head of the EPA; with his former Chief of Staff and business partner Rich McKeown.
- Includes a framework of 8 elements that will help any leader foster and maintain an effective, productive collaborative venture
- Shows how better collaboration can not only solve problems, but boost the competitiveness and resilience in all sectors
Finding Allies, Building
Alliances is essential reading for any business leader looking for
transformative solutions and a sustainable future.
Trend of the Week -- Board Governance Trends
According to results from the
eighth edition of Grant Thornton's National
Board Governance Survey for Not-for-Profit Organizations, approximately half of
respondents are confident with their programs and brand. The 2012 edition of
the survey is based on responses received via an online questionnaire from 706 board
members and senior management of higher education institutions; trade and professional
associations; social and human service organizations; religious organizations;
cultural organizations; health care organizations; and foundations. Not-for-profit
organizations are emerging from the recent economic downturn stronger than
ever. Over the past four years, significant numbers of not-for-profit
organizations have implemented new strategic plans, restructured their organizations
and made their programs more efficient as they weathered the difficult economy.
According to the results from this survey, approximately half of respondents
are confident with their programs and brand. Fewer still are convinced they have
achieved the right expense structure or that revenue is being maximized.
Confidence in staffing, structure and communication is even lower. There are a
number of possible explanations for lagging confidence, including continued
fallout from the nation’s financial meltdown, and recent staff reductions and
structural changes that may need more time to settle in. In some organizations,
further work is necessary to distinguish themselves in the new competitive
landscape. To download a copy of the survey report, go to:http://www.grantthornton.com
Resource of the Week – Giving Circles
Giving circles are one of the
fastest growing and most varied of giving models. Giving circles can
range from extremely informal settings such as four or five donors seated
around a kitchen table deciding how to allocate their “coupon money” to
extremely sophisticated, structured and formal programs. The concept behind giving
circles, no matter what the composition or disposition, is that pooled giving
has greater impact on making a difference in the community. New Ventures
in Philanthropy, a program of the Forum of Regional Associations of
Grantmakers, has developed a comprehensive web site on initiating and managing
a giving circle. For more information about giving circles, go
to: http://www.givingforum.org/s_forum/sec.asp?CID=611&DID=2661.
Tech Tip of the Week -- Automatically
Tab from Cell to Cell In Excel 2007/2010
If you have a spreadsheet
with several data input cells and would like to automatically jump from cell to
cell using your tab key, you can use the Protect feature to accomplish
this. In a previous tip we explain how
to Protect Cells in Excel 2007/2010. After you have:
- Unlocked the cells that can be changed and
- Protected the worksheet
You can simply use your tab
key to automatically move from cell to cell.
This can greatly simplify some types of data input and you'll learn
about worksheet protection in the process!
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