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Training for Nonprofits

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Nonprofit training occurs on many levels: the board, the staff, the fieldworkers, the clients, even the donors. Training ranges from improving leadership skills, improving grant writing, capacity building, learning a host nation's language and culture, acquiring technical and mechanical skills for work in the field, practicing basic survival skills, learning communications and media skills, and the style of diplomacy needed in conflict resolution. A subculture of nonprofits offers the various training skills in workshops and consultancies.

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TechSoup offers nonprofits a one-stop resource for technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support.

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CompuMentor is dedicated to helping nonprofits enhance productivity and build sustainable technology systems that foster their missions.

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civil society building, strengthening, growing, supporting nonprofit activity, promoting, advertising nonprofit work, representing nonprofits, nonprofit promotion, nonprofit work, capacity building, technical assistance, consulting services, advice, enhancing nonprofit effectiveness, networking, advocacy, funding, NGO services, building the third sector, communications, media, marketing, capacity building, ONG, NGO, strategic grantmaking, effective grantmaking, social change grantmaking, grant-making, grant making, philanthropy, effective fundraising, foundation training, organizational effectiveness

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"That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed." - Mitch Kapor

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The nonprofit world has been creating more jobs in the last few years than other sectors of the economy.

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