Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask. Having 5-10 good questions in mind can help you make sure you get the answers you’re looking for from the meeting. Understanding them. .

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Kevin Ordonez,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and I are going to explain why that’s a question everyone should be asking.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. Association 4.0:

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. If you represent the American Bankers Association, financial acumen probably isn’t a problem. Be sure to allow time for questions. Make it Meaningful This is probably my most important piece of advice. What is your board’s financial IQ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

What Donors Want – Fundraising Advice Straight from the Donor’s Mouth – Guest Post by Rachel Stephenson Sheff. Advisors, I produce a podcast called What Donors Want where we ask donors questions just like these. Major gift fundraising is an intuitive blend of art and science, with relationship-building at its core.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 1, 2021

When you are able to talk to someone directly about a story, you can ask questions the help you gather key facts, details, and emotions to tell a compelling story. To get information that helps you tell a great non-profit story, you’ll need great storytelling interview questions. I hope that they inspire you! There you have it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a development director who wants advice on how to enact board term limits: Dear Charity Clairity, We don’t have term limits for our board and, as the development director, I think this is becoming a problem.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., In that event, you want to make the case to your boss for the best answer to your problem. The problem to be addressed is highly technical. The problem is a one-time or infrequent one. I have a hunch this may be your situation.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. We look for candidates who are willing to be flexible and have the intellectual gravitas to dig into problems that we’re asked to solve every day. Hiring for skill is easy. Hiring for fit is more challenging.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., — Opportunity about to be missed Dear Opportunity about to be missed, You’ve actually named the problem in the way you’ve framed your question. That’s your problem, and it appears you’ve already solved it. What should I do?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work. Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? And, these questions are important to ask even if there was no mistakes made during the project.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies. It is also important to solve the right problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Edinger also provides invaluable advice and techniques for how to move your sales team from transactional interactions and toward consultative relationships by: Helping your customers with problems they don’t see. Helping your customers with problems they don’t know are problems. After all, you are leading people.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

shared this valuable advice. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Fortunately, subpar technology is a problem that can be fixed. Questions can cover the seven areas listed in the goals section above. My colleague, Joanna Pineda, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Matrix International Inc.,

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ask people for resources on subjects you’re interested in and advice on how to grow professionally. Come prepared with questions like how they got the job, what types of training they’ve done, and advice for someone looking to follow in their footsteps. When confronted with a problem, try setting a time limit.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

She asked for some advice around her (bumpy) request for proposals (RFP) process at her nonprofit. When I asked her to describe the problem, here’s what she said: I’ve never done this before, and I feel like I’m making it up as I go along. The CRM providers have questions that I can’t answer.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It takes a confident leader to invest a larger chunk of time exploring the right question to frame the challenge. As Albert Einstein espoused: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? Our colleague, Hugh Lee, owner of Fusion Productions, had this advice on the value of correctly matching people and responsibilities. The digital age is all about leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Realize that people can tell more about you by the depth of your questions than by the quality of your statements. Separate the people from the problem.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on how to budget and pay for capital campaign fundraising expenses: . The problem you describe is that of accounting and development not speaking the same language. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice how to create an effective year-end fundraising appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m planning ahead to prepare this year’s annual fundraising appeal, and could use a little help getting started.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to handle donor rejection. . Dear Living in No-Man’s Land, You’ve asked a huge question, the answer to which is no doubt suitable for an entire book!

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 5, 2022

The Problem Story. Making a donation to a non-profit is all about solving a problem. In the fundraising appeal, you are laying out a case for why donating will make a real difference to a community or global problem. Why does the problem persist? Why have others failed to address it? The Impact Story.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Our problem is we don’t have much of a mailing list. Charity Clairity ( Please use a pseudonym if you prefer to be anonymous when you submit your own question , like “Feeling Listless” did.) Also, how big does our list need to be.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on what to do after a donor says “no” to a meeting. When they say “no,” you’ve received an invitation to help solve a problem: Why are they saying no?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., In fact, back in the day, I encountered this exact problem. Here are questions you can ask yourself and your team to go through a similar exercise. Here’s some advice from another expert – Penelope Burk of Donor-Centered Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 14, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to tactfully ask for donor feedback without making promises. . In terms of what questions to ask, you don’t so much ask, “What should we do?” Charity Clairity.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

BoardEffect states that an annual board self-assessment may help the board prevent problems leading to liability issues and that the results of an assessment can highlight topics for future board discussion and consideration. Get the Board on Board There will always be one or two naysayers. An annual survey is a good start.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

.” -- Bill McBean "People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves." -- Paulo Coelho "We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands." -- Brian Solis "In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons." -- James (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. Julia Boorstin Earlier this year, Boorstin shared these additional insights with us: Question: How did you decide which leaders to feature in your book? Question: How did your experience working at Fortune and now CNBC shape you, and shape this book?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

If you want to learn how to more effectively embrace change, read Build For Tomorrow , by Jason Feifer , Editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the podcasts Build For Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. “My Question : Change is one of the most difficult things for people. And, will that learning carry forward? But it's not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

What problems are you trying to solve? The goal is after reading the scope, the prospective vendor should have a clear idea of your overall objectives, the problems you are trying to address and solve with the redesign, target audiences, which features are most important, and technical and other constraints. Target audiences.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 18, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on ways to stay in touch with potential donors who have major donor potential. . So before getting to the solution, try sussing out the problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It takes a confident leader to invest a larger chunk of time exploring the right question to frame the challenge. As Albert Einstein espoused: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. Julia Boorstin Recently, Boorstin shared these additional insights with us: Question: How did you decide which leaders to feature in your book? Question: How did your experience working at Fortune and now CNBC shape you, and shape this book?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

King also recommends you develop and benefit from three information networks : Informal Advice Network – the people you go to for advice regarding a challenge or problem you are experiencing at work. Sample questions to ask include: How could I be more open about the decisions I make? Michelle P.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2018

She also writes about digital marketing with helpful and actionable advice on Wired Impact’s nonprofit marketing blog and for their online guides. Having access to Google Analytics for your website is key to getting to the roots of the problem. Answering common questions that your staff gets asked all the time.

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