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

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We selected this group because, as independent business owners, they were acutely aware of the challenges of digital markets and the attitudes needed for success. Subsequent models will incorporate changes based on consumer feedback. Ongoing transformation requires adjustments to perspectives, attitudes, and behavior.

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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

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Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Over time, this attitude will become second nature. Start by modeling the behavior you want to see. Why are you afraid? Is it because you think you will come across as greedy? Are you afraid of making your donor mad? Stop playing the comparison game.

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Here’s Your Chance – A Message to All New Graduates in Philanthropy

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It has now become a fun game for me to hear them articulate what I do. Near the end of the discussion, a reporter said to me, “I hate to be that guy, but you’re pretty good at talking about what’s possible – yet we live in an old-school philanthropy world. My parents still struggle telling their friends what I do.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This begins with the CEO or president, who needs to articulate what she or he sees as the fundamental importance of dedicating staff time towards these goals. The top management of your organization helps to provide a role model by setting a meaningful example of how the rest of the staff should follow and embrace change.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. The organizational dashboard is shared across departments and there is a process for analyzing, discussing, and applying results. identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them.

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Four Tips to Help Nonprofit Marketing Departments Create a Culture of Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. Too many nonprofit staff are so busy doing the work, they don’t step back to consider the bigger picture of organizational culture and a shared mental model. Business guru Peter F.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). Their arguments ranged in success, mirroring the discussion in the ArtsWave report about the utility and shortcomings of common case statements (see page 15 of the report).

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