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How to Use a SWOT Analysis for Your Nonprofit

CauseVox

A SWOT analysis is a great tool to guide any team through this process. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.” – Claire Weekes What is a SWOT Analysis and Why Do One? A SWOT analysis helps to identify opportunities for growth and impact, and anticipate and mitigate potential threats.

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Helpful Ways to Measure and Optimize Your Nonprofit’s Performance

sgEngage

Data analysis tools are helping organizations of all sizes to automate, streamline, and standardize processes so they can measure and optimize performance. Sharing this information publicly provides access to both internal and external constituents. That’s where technology can make a real impact. Your goal is transparency.

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Creating the Foundation for a Best-In-Class Nonprofit Finance Team

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They should be well-versed in financial reports and analysis, but also be able to explain complex financial concepts to board members without a financial background. They should be confident in providing variance analysis and a variety of financial reports to help with risk management and forecasting.

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Top 5 Reasons Why Nonprofits Fail

The Modern Nonprofit

A strategic plan should include a detailed analysis of the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), as well as specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. A lack of strong, visionary leadership can lead to poor decision-making, lack of direction, and internal conflicts.

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What Previous Crises Can Teach Us About Navigating the Current Fundraising Environment

Connection Cafe

The new and unique aspect of our current environment is that parts of fundraising programs will need to be for our mutual health and safety. One key takeaway from past events is that it can take many, many years to rebuild a donor base if that donor base is not maintained.

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Will Robots (and bots) Replace Nonprofit Staff and Interns in the Workplace?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, artificial intelligence can do a facial recognition analysis of hundreds and thousands of photos in minutes. It is hoped this bot can remove some of the stigma associated with making a formal complaint – and lead to a safer, more open environment for all employees. But it requires careful thought.

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Survival in the New Age of Successful Grant Management

sgEngage

Not the ones with the fake contests and contrived conflicts, but the ones that pit you against the weather, the wildlife, and the natural environment. Internal controls are not just for finance people anymore. Generally, the relevance of internal controls to nonprofit programs had been limited at best.

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