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CharityChannel members who have years of experience in their field may apply to join a Contributor's Panel. Once accepted to a panel by the panel's editor, the member will work with the editor to determine article topics and to prepare an article that is ready for publication. With tens of thousands of colleagues in the CharityChannel professional community, this is a key opportunity to give back to your profession by sharing your hard-won expertise and wisdom.
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The Golden Rule of Stakeholder Consultations Contributed by:
Jane LoganThursday, December 29, 2005 (7 years 138 days ago)
Stakeholder consultations are a terrific tool for organizations embarking on strategic planning, project planning or policy development. Through approaches like surveys, road shows, meetings and workshops, organizations are becoming more accountable to their stakeholders and engaging them in their success. Nonprofits and charities not only host these stakeholder engagements, they are invited to others as participants. Everybody's doing it. But these initiatives can backfire when stakeholders expect their ideas to be acted upon and see no results, or when they get different results than they expected. Setting appropriate expectations can save a world of frustration and disillusionment for participants and organizers alike.
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Values Statements with Real Impact (Part 2) Contributed by:
Jane LoganThursday, March 24, 2005 (8 years 53 days ago)
An explicit values statement is a powerful governance tool. The conclusion of this two-part series about values statements looks at how organizations enhance their conventional values statements with detailed descriptions that help answer the question, "How do we carry out our mission?" It will also look at the Board's critical role in ensuring that the values are truly lived, and are reflected in policies and practices.
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Values Statements with Real Impact (Part 1) Contributed by:
Jane LoganThursday, March 10, 2005 (8 years 67 days ago)
Calling a special Board meeting to discuss values is rarely a high priority when financial crises, strategies to cope with changes in the environment, or the need to adjust project priorities demand attention. Nonprofits and charities may feel they cannot afford staff or volunteer time to chew over what they already know intuitively. But an explicit values statement is a powerful governance tool. Part 1 of this two-part series provides insight into the benefits of appropriate values statements and developing the most representative list for your organization. Part 2 will supply further examples and review how Boards can use the final product to keep an organization on track.
CharityChannel's WE REVIEW
CharityChannel members who have been admitted to the WE REVIEW Contributors Panel are eligible to receive recently-published books from a variety of publishers (and some self-publishers) to review. Reviews are not limited to books published by CharityChannel Press, the publishing project of the CharityChannel professional community. If you are interested in reviewing books, you are welcome to apply. Note that, even though WE REVIEW has been publishing reviews for over a decade, it has recently been reorganized and re-launched. We took the opportunity to remove prior reviews, since our focus is on newly published books.
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CarityChannel Press is the publishing arm of CharityChannel. Many of the sector’s most experienced, knowledgeable practitioners are part of the CharityChannel professional community. Because of its unique role in the nonprofit sector, CharityChannel Press enjoys a rich pool of prospective authors from which to draw. In addition, the CharityChannel professional community, consisting of tens of thousands of practitioners, forms a natural initial market for the books as does the greater third sector itself. Interested in writing a book or manual?
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CharityChannel Press is the publishing project of the CharityChannel professional community. In this blogging feature, the authors and editors of our books and manuals share their thoughts, ideas, insights, and advice on topics of interest to busy practitioners. Reading their blogs is a great way to get to know them and to learn about their latest books and manuals. Be sure to jump in and add your comment to blog postings.
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