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We are pleased to bring you this article from Susan Detwiler, Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant. Where there is no gratitude, there is no meaningful movement; human affairs become rocky, painful, coldly indifferent, unpleasant, and finally break off altogether. The social ‘machinery’ grinds along and soon seizes up.Margaret VisserThanksgiving is an obvious time to write about being thankful, and it’s nice to have a time to stop and consider all that we have to be grateful for. We[…]

We Value Your Input!As a valued individual of the nonprofit community, we would like to invite you to participate in this brief survey to let us know your thoughts about the current Standards for Excellence Institute website.Visit www.standardsforexcellenceinstitute.org,and then tell us your thoughts athttp://fluidsurveys.com/s/SFEI-WebsiteSurvey/Your anonymous answers will help us to improve our website and your user-experience.[…]

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.- Nolan Bushnell, technology pioneerRebecca Wyatt of Salsa Labs recently wrote a blog about staff traingin at nonprofits.[…]

The Standards for Excellence Institute would like to congratulate several organizations who recently earned or renewed their accreditation under the Standards for Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector: CSJ Ministries, Nazareth, Michigan Partners In Care MD, Inc., Pasadena, Maryland United Way of Central Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland[…]

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else. - Nolan Bushnell, technology pioneerSalsa Labs' Rebecca Wyatt recently wrote a blog as part of their recent series on nonprofit training. According to Ms. Wyatt, “a well-developed training program is a worthwhile investment which will improve the overall outcomes of your organization.”Citing the Harvard Business Review:Dissatisfaction with some employee-development efforts appears to fuel many early exits...[Workers are] not[…]

We are pleased to bring you this article from Susan Detwiler, Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant. Ahh, the glorious feeling of looking at the month after next on your calendar and seeing whole empty days. How easy it is to be magnanimous and say “yes” when asked to take on a job that isn’t due for two months. So we say “yes,” and put it on the calendar. When another someone asks us to do something in the future, we again check our calendar, see that it’s still pretty empty, and again[…]