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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

And your attitude will be contagious. No one should fall back on “that’s not my job” when it comes to passionately and proactively articulating your vision, mission, and values. Culture tends to reflect who’s in charge. Get them on board then offer to lead a discussion at an executive management team meeting.

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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. “Who Change in attitude about your organization. What was easy about defining success?

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Discussions on how to improve results are rarely part of staff meetings. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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

Achieve

It has now become a fun game for me to hear them articulate what I do. But really, these are just labels and don’t truly reflect the work 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.

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

Connection Cafe

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. Be sure to have leadership kick off the session by discussing the importance of philanthropy to the organization.

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A group dialogue followed allowing people to articulate why they felt one way or other. " The discussion reminded of the one I heard in the UK and read later on the Circuit Riders list " Is Open Source Fair Trade for Nonprofits ? Or, has this issue already been discussed in this context?

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

Museum 2.0

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. 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).

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