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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

If that sounds like a heavy lift for your group, identifying the reward in change will go a long way toward winning your staff’s cooperation. Integrate Vision, People, and Process Clearly articulate your shared vision for the organization and identify benchmarks for success. Everyone on your team will not become a believer overnight.

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How to Get Donations for a Fundraiser: 10 Best Practices

Allegiance Group

By focusing on connecting with these donors, showing them how their investment in your cause is making a tangible impact, and offering alternative ways to get involved, you can support steady or increased retention at your organization. Clear, effective communication that articulates the nonprofit’s message and goals.

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Managing Your Not-for-Profit’s Endowment – How to Ensure Present and Future Success

BoardAssist

Does your organization have a sound, carefully managed and board-approved Investment Policy Statement? Alternatively, does the mission of the organization state that certain investments should be excluded or others included? The size and complexity of the portfolio usually determine the kind of outside resources engaged.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. It sounds like there will be more public input on these issues in the future, getting ready for the next SCCR meeting. Long post alert!] Pallante did point out that the U.S.

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Turn Brand Strategy into an Effective Website

Tech Soup

Sounds great in theory, but what, you're probably thinking, does it look like in practice? Again, sounds exciting, but how does it actually work? The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief. Then they need to support and apply that strategy to the area they are responsible for.

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My Learnings from the Boston Media Makers Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How to make the transitions smoother without that annoying burp sound or without it abrupting stopping midstream. I put the clip into another project, turned off the sound, saved it as AVI and brought into the original project.) lighting, sound, framing, etc.? Record good sound (this is the basis of your viewer???s

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5 Website Features All New Nonprofits Should Know and Use

Get Fully Funded

We react positively when we find a website with strong, well-structured design, but it can be difficult to articulate what made the design strong. However, a few accessibility design best practices you might miss are: Alternative text and transcripts. Nonprofit and association website design is often understood subconsciously.