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Ben's Blog

http://www.benpeterson.ca

Ben's Blog is a blog about non-profit management. A topic as simple as it is valuable, the blog aims to provide insight to the non-profit community on how to manage, administer, and grow non-profits into sustainable infrastructures such as jhr (Journalists for Human Rights).

• Added on: Oct 9th, 2009
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: Ben Peterson
• Listed in: Volunteering Beliefs & Causes
• Tags: nonprofit nonprofit management journalists for human rights jhr sustainable infrastructures

Recent Posts

• Managing Overseas Staff

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 07:00 in leadership, organizational structure, managing people, nonprofit management, jhr, nonprofit employment, motivating your staff

  How do you bridge geographic gaps when managing overseas staff? Sometimes this feels like an efficient idea.... If I had a perfect answer to this question, I’d be a rich man (I’d be forced to write best-selling management books or s...

• Genocide and Canada’s National Interest

  Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 11:15 in fundraising, leadership, human rights, organizational structure, migs, jhr, canada's national interest, dr. frank chalk, montreal institute for genoide and human rights studies, the simons foundation, will to intervene

  Is the prevention of mass atrocities in Canada’s national interest?  That’s exactly what a major new report argues. I’ve spent the last two days in Vancouver at the Canadian launch of the “Will to Intervene” report, a ...

• What to do in a Crisis

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 07:00 in leadership, crisis management, managing people

  Stay Calm. Tap Your Inner Budda Keep level headed. Breath. Think clearly. Act only when you’ve thought things through. This is simple advice, but it will solve 90% of all problems in a crisis situation....

• Guest Blog: Sarah Lee on Overseas Crisis Management

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 07:00 in kidnapping, crisis management, managing people, sarah lee, jhr, sierra leone, hostage takings, international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies, nonprofit saftey, overseas safety, rights media

  I have a really great job here at jhr. As the main point of contact with our overseas trainers, I get daily updates on the latest happenings on the ground, our new projects and all of jhr’s successes. It makes for consistently exciting work. Ho...

• Papa: 1913-2009

  Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 15:58 in marie peterson, clarence peterson

  My dear grandfather, Clarence Marvin Peterson, passed away on the morning of Tuesday, November 17th, at the age of 96. He died as he deserved–in the arms of his lovely wife of seventy plus years, Marie. I’m taking the week to be with my f...

• Guest Blog: Jennifer Corriero on Working at TIG

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 07:00 in leadership, organizational structure, managing people, tig, worldblu, jennifer corriero, taking it global, nonprofit organizational culture, nonprofit mangement

  Team TIG I am continually energized by the power of community-led initiatives and the momentum generated when young people become inspired, informed and involved in social change efforts.  TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an organization committed to v...

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