Professional Development

Don’t Let COVID-19 Cancel Your Corporate Social Responsibility Programs

Leadership Development, Professional Development, Social Work /

Corporate social responsibility is the act of incorporating environmental and social concerns into a company’s business model. Corporate social responsibility programs are based on the idea that businesses can make the world a better place or at least not bring more harm to it. Corporate social responsibility seeks to alleviate environmental and social concerns such

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A Resource for Building Organizational Capacity in Challenging Times

Leadership Development, Professional Development, Social Work /

My name is Nicki Sanders. I am your community member and cheerleader with 20 years of diverse experience in the nonprofit world and over a decade of nonprofit management experience. I have worked in residential, community, and school-based programs. I have a Master’s degree in Social Work with a concentration in Management and Community Organization

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Conversation with Nicki Sanders and Bessie Bordenave, Harriet Tubman Foundation President

Conversations with Nicki Sanders, Professional Development /

Bessie Bordenave is Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Ridgely’s Run Community Center, President of the Harriet Tubman Foundation, and chair of the Harriet Tubman Advisory Council.  Ms. Bordenave is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who was born and raised in the town of Guilford in Howard County, MD. She was a

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Conversation with Nicki Sanders and Lisette Engel, MPA, Community Advocate

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Lisette Engel has had a passion for justice since youth. She is Montgomery County, MD native who strongly believes in the power of community engagement and allowing people to be engaged in policies and programming that impact them directly. While enrolled in a college course during her high school years, Lisette’s class was tasked with

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Leadership Development, Professional Development /

Question 1: How authentic or vulnerable can you be with your team? [The Formal Description] For 10 years, Crittenton Services emerging leader training programming has worked to hone girls’ leadership, advocacy, and communication skills. As the scope and capacity of this work has grown, we created a cornerstone experience, an intensive weekend-long conference called the Leadership

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