sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When measuring your impact, you probably do so in relation to the specific needs of the community you serve, but you are also just one in a broader network of organizations working collectively to create a sustainable future for all. Each step you take to maximize your impact creates a ripple that carries through to create global change.

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Impact Global Literacy Articulate 71

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

It starts with articulating a clear, authentic, and long-term purpose — something that is true today, and that guides the organization into the future. Here are a few examples of what purpose-driven companies do that set them apart. Brands With Purpose Link Day-to-Day Work to a Shared Purpose. What’s next?

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Companies Alaska Malta Philanthropy 106

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? For example, perhaps your idea for creating a nonprofit focused on raising funds for children fighting cancer started with one family’s need for support in a challenging time. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues? The answer could be “both.”

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Nonprofit Files Policy Software 78

sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals. What role does this campaign play in your overall fundraising program? What role does this campaign play in your overall fundraising program?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

We have different feelings, perspectives, and approaches to our lives and our work. For example, we can build incredibly meaningful opportunities and programs for employees to engage in volunteering, giving, and broader philanthropy, but if we have not addressed our alignment on values and purpose first, then it will be for naught.

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Philanthropy Measure Influence Trend 73

Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

To make a positive first impression for visitors who land on your website, seek to introduce your nonprofit by highlighting its mission-driven work and tangible impacts in the community. Who does your nonprofit serve and how are you actively working to solve the challenges they face? Impact stories. Ways to get involved.

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Effective Create Strategy Nonprofit 119

Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

People crave a clearly articulated goal to connect with and promote. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level. Once you have your goals, you can work backward to design an appropriate and feasible timeline. Rely on established relationships.

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Advocacy Campaign Tips Storytelling 130

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Getting development teams and their nonprofit boards to work in alignment can be challenging. Even if your development team and your board work well together, there is probably more that the executive director, development director, and board chair can do to ensure that the organization is taking advantage of everyone’s strengths.

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Fundraising Teach Hosting Skills 85

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Nonetheless, many others recognize the value of such a commitment and show up as allies and in solidarity for the work of social change, while also sitting with the discomfort, dissonance, and truth required for such change. Evaluate each applicant’s ability to articulate and demonstrate shared core values. .

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Consultant Script Evaluation Nonprofit 111

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 3, 2011

In my time working on web development for nonprofit organizations, I’ve seen more RFPs than I can even begin to count. A mistake I see very often in RFPs is an imbalance in what is articulated in the RFP, and the kind of work that is required to pull off what’s needed. I’ve even written a few.

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Articulate Slides Integration Consultant 160

sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Implementing a robust and modern fund accounting system can save your team time, make reporting faster, and give you more opportunity to focus on impactful work. Ensure everyone understands how it will fit into and work with existing systems, processes, and job functions. Understanding the Timeline.

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System Fund Practice Free 70

Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Example RFP for a larger website build (PDF). Example RFP for a smaller website build (PDF). See our ultimate nonprofit RFP guide with examples and templates. Consider asking other people they have worked with. . For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have? Check this out.

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Process Question Proposal PDF 52

VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Being able to articulate and quantify how your organization engaged volunteers prior to the pandemic and since the outbreak is equally important to understanding the trends across the sector. Know your own Engagement and Impact. Where were your strengths? More on that in our next blog. So, stay tuned.

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Organization Volunteer Virtual Articulate 98

Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Organizational roles – Who has advisory power? Consultant role – Are we looking for someone to advise, analyze, diagnose, propose solutions, implement solutions, or something else? Do they articulate an understanding of and/or demonstrate affinity for your mission and vision? What stage is the financing in (Secured?

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Consultant Process Proposal Nonprofit 122

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Here are some benefits you can expect to see from proactive change management: Decreased resistance – By communicating regularly with all stakeholders and providing them with tools and resources to work through change, everyone involved and impacted is more likely to participate actively in project planning. Easy to communicate.

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Change Management Change Management Technique 52

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Then we’ll give you the strategies you need to find volunteers who can truly make a difference to your organization’s work. It’s no secret that nonprofits rely on volunteer work. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to volunteer recruitment and its importance. What is volunteer recruitment? Request a Demo.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

Your job is to disabuse those with whom you work of this “dirty money” notion. And just because they rationalize their paycheck supports helping people, animals, nature or whatever the “real work” of your mission is, while yours facilitates raising money to pay for this work, there’s no real difference if you look at the big picture. .

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Culture Philanthropy Facilitation Job 121

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2018

We know from our nearly twenty years of practice what makes skills-based volunteer programs work best to solve even the most persistent community challenges. We’ve now adopted this process from them, and have incorporated this methodology into our broader work.”.

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Skills Volunteer Work Organization 24

Achieve

AUGUST 12, 2021

The real power behind appealing to this age group with your peer-to-peer fundraisers lies in the fact that they’re tech-savvy, have connections with like-minded individuals, and are willing to put in the work to help worthy causes succeed. . Share an on-the-ground perspective of your work. a thorough fundraising strategy.

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Audience Tips Fundraising Social Media 82

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

In today’s world, job roles are constantly changing and new challenges arise in the workplace. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Professional Develop Instructional Design Phoenix 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I will work through all of them over the next week or so but the list that will keep growing is the one of insights and new ideas I gained from hearing fellow participants share their knowledge, experiences, and tools. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Evaluation Network Effective Case Study 95

Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. Begin by identifying what your community needs and articulate what the purpose of your wiki is. Organizing a wiki team is much like organizing a volunteer or work team. Examples of Wikis.

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Wiki Collaboration Online Wikipedia 65

Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

So you work at Nonprofit XYZ and increasingly you hear about other organizations' success in utilizing Google Analytics to increase impact. it is just too much work when no one is supporting your efforts. But the only way to do this is through figuring out what works — and having organization-wide buy-in.

Culture 36

Culture Data Create Case Study 36

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences.

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Management Work Video Slides 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The specific indicators of program success are below and were identified with input from participants: 100% of participants will develop an integrated and measurable social media strategy that furthers their communications work in population and reproductive health that aligned with institutional goals.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Here are two examples to show the contrast between flowery, non-cited needs and grant-appropriated cited needs. Example #1) Flowery wording in grants that doesn’t get awarded. Example #2) Grant appropriate language in the need’s section that gets grants awarded. Below, we show one objective example.

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Grant Award Project Proposal 92

Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. “Board manuals can be a key resource in facilitating the work of a board member. Board Manual.

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Fundraising Articulate Template Facilitation 50

Care2

JANUARY 30, 2014

For the key people working on your web project, how much experience do they have? Confirm which staff will actually be working on the project. Do all of the web projects they’ve recently worked on have a similar aesthetic? Are they able to articulate back to you what you’re after? How will billing work?

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Web Language Photography Drupal 59

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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API Action Open Data 186

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. She works over at CCS. Which by the way, if you work at CCS, this is pretty serious people if you know that agency. Elizabeth: Yes.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. What is the difference?

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In addition, Boards of Directors serve as champions advancing the mission and activities of public charities, a role invaluable in the sector. Founders need to well articulate their vision and involve others in developing plans to implement the mission. It’s a Tax Benefit.

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Public Charity Structure Arizona 71

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. In January, as part of a series of place-making workshops facilitated by the Project for Public Spaces , we worked with a local dad to coordinate a workshop explicitly for kids (full writeup here ). Non-Participation 6.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Even worse, they don’t appear to be speaking the language and may work as isolated islands instead of finding ways to build bridges together to cultivate and engage supporters and do it with common values, culture, vocabulary, and practices. It means incorporating learning as part of doing the work.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The cornerstone of their presentation rested in the necessity for nonprofits to think strategically about communications plans, working with a definition of strategy by David La Piana: "Strategy is a coordinated set of actions designed to create and sustain a competitive advantage in achieving a nonprofit's mission.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I like to use a wireless mic and roam the audience and ask questions that help create a bridge between the presenters and the audience.

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Facilitation Channel Social Media Global 98

Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

However, the pillar which has most recently captivated my interest and attention in much of my work with nonprofits is the fifth one: a culture that values learning. The pillars range from leadership to management to evaluation for mission effectiveness. For many nonprofits, this shift in thinking may seem daunting.

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Impact Organization Build Culture 33