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FASTER THAN A LOCOMOTIVE: HOW TO HELP STAFF BECOME MORE EFFICIENT
Webinar · May 22
Webinar · May 22
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BEYOND FACILITATION ... ALL THE WAY TO FABULOUS
Webinar · June 19
Webinar · June 19
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MEANING, PURPOSE, JOY:
ARE YOUR YOUNG PEOPLE FINDING IT?
Where are you on your lifelong journey toward meaning, joy and hope? Where are the young people in your care? As someone who has contact with young people, we are asking for your help in involving them in an international research effort that investigates how young people ages 12-25 think about and use spirituality in their daily lives. Research shows a clear connection between spiritual development and pro-social behaviors in young people, and child development experts now consider spiritual development to be a critical part of the journey to maturity. ARE YOUR YOUNG PEOPLE FINDING IT?
The project, led by the Minneapolis-based Search Institute, is aimed at understanding spiritual ideas and development in young people across cultures. Search Institute is one of the country’s leading researchers on child- and adolescent well-being. It also has a long history of work with faith communities; two years ago it launched a Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence.
In this new project, Search treats spirituality as a broad concept that includes both religious and non-religious beliefs. The survey is meant to capture many different cultural concepts, beliefs and attitudes, meaning that all youth, religious or not, are welcomed and encouraged to take it. The survey will be administered to thousands of youth in the US, Canada, Australia, Thailand, Ghana, Ukraine and other countries, making it the largest effort of this sort ever undertaken. NEN also has a national reputation for its research on spirituality and young people. NEN has published three groundbreaking studies on spirituality and at-risk youth, and offers trainings youth-serving organizations and congregations to help integrate this and related research into their youth development work.
Search has contracted with NEN to be one of several research partners in this study. We are asking you to administer the survey to young people who participate in your programs. The survey can be taken online or on paper, individually or in groups, and makes an excellent springboard for group discussions. NEN will sponsor a pizza party for groups of five or more young people who take the survey. To arrange "pizza money" and/or to receive paper surveys, contact Melanie Wilson at mwilson@nenetwork.org or (603) 778-6010. Otherwise, just ask young people to click on the link below and have at it.
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MAKING SENSE OF THE LOGIC MODEL
Are you trying to make sense of the logic model or wondering how to make effective use of it in your grant proposals? Making Sense of the Logic Model, the final webinar in the 2007-2008 Fund Development Series, is the webinar for you. This workshop will explain what a logic model is; explain the importance of a logic model to a grant writer; and identify ways you can use a logic model to establish realistic and meaningful benchmarks for success (and impress funders in the process). 50% Discount: Register Now!Webinar · May 15 
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NEN ROUNDTABLE:
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 'HIGH IMPACT'
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 'HIGH IMPACT'
In this, our third in a series of NEN Roundtable discussions, we ask four female leaders what it takes to run a 'high-impact' nonprofit, using as a starting point an influential recent article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article took a close look at 12 successful nonprofits and asked what they had in common and which pieces of conventional wisdom they flouted. The authors identified six 'myths of nonprofit management' and six practices that all 12 successful organizations shared. Read the Roundtable discussion.