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Lutheran Social Services’ Endowment Provides Protection and Freedom
The newly invigorated endowment program of Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan provides more than funds for innovative programming and new initiatives.

In The Best Interests …Texas members rely on expertise
Reflections by four members in Texas on taking in children removed from their parents in the FLDS sect earlier this year.

Members Have More Benefits

The Dallas Morning News: June 4, 2008 - Judge's orders aimed to protect Jeffs' daughter from sect member

USA Today: June 5, 2008 - Sect Kids Back with Parents

Post-Retirement Careers Offer Immense Workforce Resource
With human services facing a wide range of problematic workforce issues, tapping into the growing ranks of retired older adults
could be the answer to some problems.

Full Freedman Interview
New Careers Result in Satisfaction
Help with Strategy for Retirees in Workforce
New Age of Aging Project of the Alliance

Top Reasons to Go to the Alliance National Conference
Members share the best reasons to attend the Alliance National Conference, Oct. 28-30, in Baltimore.

Sharing Expert Advice: Executive Consultant Select Group Consultants

The consultants of the Alliance’s Executive Consultant Select Group provide expert information on a variety of timely issues.

For more details, visit the ECSG website


Moving Out of the Reactive Mode
Pressley Ridge added scenario planning to their strategic planning efforts in order to create strategies for remaining vital in the future

Scanning the Horizon: Trends, Developments & Innovations Impacting the Future of Child and Family Services

Regional Results: a Briefing Report

What If? Scenarios as Building Blocks for Organizational Performance, Alliance for Children & Families Magazine, Spring 2005

Plans & Possibilities. Exploring the Future Through the Lens of Scenario Planning, Alliance for Children & Families Magazine, Fall 2005

Art Of The Long View: Paths To Strategic Insight For Yourself And Your Company, by Peter Schwartz [review or purchase on Amazon.]

Scenario-Planning Handbook: A Practitioner's Guide To Developing and Using Scenarios To Direct Strategy in Today's Uncertain Times, by Bill Ralston and Ian Wilson  [review or purchase on Amazon.]

What If? The Art of Scenario Thinking for Nonprofits, by Diana Scearce, Katherine Fulton, and the Global Business Network community.


FEATURED COLUMNISTS

Afterschool Accreditation Added to Roster
By Richard Klarberg, President and CEO, Council on Accreditation

Real-World Strategies
Stakes Are High With Mergers
By Valerie King, Ph.D. and David R. Jones, Esq.

National Perspectives

Reaching out to a Willing Group of Champions

By Peter Goldberg


 


Fund Development:

Forming Bond Between Governance and Development
By Bob Jones, Ph.D.
 


Nonprofit Law:
Early Planning Will Prevent Problems or Delays
By Kathryn Vanden Berk

Link to: Code of Conduct and Whistleblower Policy
Link to: Document Retention and Destruction Policy
Link to: Sample Conflict of Interest Policy
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 




 


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