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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Preparing for the Selection Process

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When I talk with nonprofit and foundation leaders, many ask me how to ensure they get the right consultant for their projects. Here’s my advice for finding the right consultant for your nonprofit. . Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one?

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Taking a JEDI Approach

Bloomerang

This is the third article in a three-part series on finding the best consultant for your nonprofit. If funders, grantors, and key stakeholders are not on board with the JEDI-centered approach to hiring a consultant, you could face conflict or barriers to engaging the consultant and moving your project forward. .

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Brent Gibson, Chief Health Officer at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and Managing Director of NCCHC Resources, Inc. Joey Knecht, CEO and Managing Director at Proteus.co, recommends that leaders turn away from politics and toward business. described how he innovates inside a bureaucratic organization like this.

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Conducting Confidential Feasibility Studies: A Good or Bad Choice?

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During these interviews, you (or a consultant) will ask questions to gauge your stakeholders’ thoughts and opinions on your campaign’s objectives, initial fundraising goal, potential concerns, and the campaign’s overall feasibility. In this traditional approach, an outside consultant completely conducts the study for you.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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The degree to which a nonprofit can articulate the strength of its reach, resources, reputation, and capabilities is an important key in securing productive collaborative relationships. She serves on the Board of Directors for Los Angeles’ Blank Theatre Company and shares her midcentury-style home with Bowie, a 15-year-old Boston Terrier.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Each person of the knowledge team—the board chair, the executive director, marketing and administrative staff, and a community diversity and engagement consultant—came together in conversations about what mattered most in the organization’s work and what data could be collected to illuminate how their work was progressing.

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

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Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Choose a board of directors A nonprofit’s board of directors is a governing body typically made up of unpaid volunteers who set policies, determine strategic priorities, and provide oversight. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues?