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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Here’s an example of how to structure your scoping document outline: About the Organization. Critical information to obtain in an RFI include: Examples of past projects that are comparable to yours.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, I have a daily reflection ritual of walking a few miles a day to think away from screens. Start A New Professional Journal(s): For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal(s), using a variation of bullet journal technique. And, if I’m being honest, I don’t stick to them.

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Change Management: 3 Steps to Make Change a Reality at Your Nonprofit

Saleforce Nonprofit

Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change. The techniques help to grease the wheels of any organizational change. Change management relies on a wide variety of tools and techniques. A “Why” Statement. Reinforcements.

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8 Must-Have Tools For Your Fundraising Toolkit

Get Fully Funded

It should be easy to understand and you need to be able to articulate it clearly. For example, if you work for a food bank, a clear, magnetic vision might be to end hunger in your community. Here’s a great example from Best Friends Animal Society with their BHAG of taking the entire U. Notice there’s no jargon.

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Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations

VQ Strategies

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. While the guide is designed to help make the case to funders, the techniques apply equally to leadership. Know your own Engagement and Impact.

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book is filled with stories of people and organizations that have more recently harnessed new power, both well-known examples like the Pope and lesser-known examples too. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed.