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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions. Invite the auditor to present to the group as preparation for the audit review. Be sure to review important policies and procedures.

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Content Metrics You Should Track

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Here’s some great content metrics that strategist Jay Baer highlighted on his blog (thanks for the recommendation Beth Kanter ) which nonprofits can utilize. Besides looking at the unique website visits (month over month and year to year), you should also review what content gets the most traffic. Are people sharing your content?

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Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

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3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 Q: One of the tips from Harvard Business Review 2 on how to set up programs for success is to set goals, collect data and examine change overtime. These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance. Articles that Inspire Social Justice.

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Fundraising Metrics: Don’t Just Count the Dollars

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dollars raised) are the most commonly used metric for evaluating fundraising staff, but they are not the only metrics that we as managers should track. Learn more about fundraising and metrics through NMI! The system will not work if it is only visited once per year during employee annual reviews. Like this article?

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Nonprofit Email Communications (with Examples)

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In other words, when you enter a prompt, ChatGPT scours vast amounts of text data online (such as books, websites, articles, etc.) You still have to review and edit what ChatGPT has created, but it will save you loads of time on the initial draft. It then takes these learnings and produces a response to your prompt in natural language.

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

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Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. Incorporate Wellbeing Metrics into Your Performance Reviews The good news is some organizations are already taking it a step further. Accountability includes getting upwards anonymous feedback from staff.

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“Unsubscribe” is not a Dirty Word in Email Marketing

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As a user experience consultant at Blackbaud, I’m often tasked with reviewing a nonprofit customer’s email messages to see if any improvements could be made. You aren’t going to improve your metrics by hiding this required link behind some flowery description. Let’s face the facts here – we all have them, so why hide them?

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