ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to the nonprofit sector and many organizations have had to undergo massive staffing cuts, eliminate programs, and struggle through maintaining minimal viable operations to avoid closing permanently. Many organizations are now finding that a crisis management plan is not the whole story.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation. Model Behavior.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

In episode 7 of the Managing eLearning Podcast , Jon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras to discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model , which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Nonprofit membership programs can help your organization raise money, build your network, and give members a louder voice in your organization or community. Your organization advances its goals while members receive exclusive benefits in thanks for their help—everyone wins! What is a nonprofit membership program?

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Candid

MAY 20, 2021

For many organizations, the need for major fundraising initiatives has become abundantly clear over the course of the pandemic. However, looking back over the past year and to the road ahead, some organizations may still be asking themselves, “Does fundraising make sense right now? Will our donors be responsive to a campaign?

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We discuss the varying states of “reopening” across different types of organizations, the changing needs in the field, the desire for effective recruitment strategies, as well as the level of continued interest in some of the fundamentals of volunteer engagement. We can support them by modeling these tactics and helping them do the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. We also seen how organizations can harness connectivity as well as movements. These are key questions of our times.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2022

She has been both volunteer and activist for organizations working on human rights, poverty elimination, non-violence, and cultural exchange. It’s the foundation that enables you to articulate your organization’s mission and channel the inspiring stories of those whom you’ve helped.

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sgEngage

JUNE 16, 2021

Lean into your most recent (in the last 12 months) custom models to identify those most likely to donate to your organization and even determine an aspirational target gift range and likelihood. As demand for volunteers increases in your organizations, be strategic about who you are recruiting. Dig Into the Data. A $2,500 gift?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As connections increase, it becomes essential for organizations to have a holistic view of all of their activities. With so many moving parts and new considerations for philanthropic organizations, it is more important than ever to understand where you want to drive impact, and the specific ways you can get there. Know your audience

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 2, 2023

It includes a step by step process to increase your influence and build meaningful partnerships with staff across the organization. Is it impactful and can you (and the volunteers) articulate the difference they will make by engaging in this way? This starts with staff partners who understand what is expected of them.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Leaders can see the path forward for the organization. They can help the organization set and achieve goals.

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Forj

APRIL 7, 2017

OrgCommunity and Web Courseworks are excited to present the closing webinar of the Spring eLearning Thought Leaders series, The Learning Business Maturity Model , featuring Jeff Cobb and Celisa Steele of Tagoras. Tagoras is a research and consulting firm for associations and organizations who focus on lifelong learning.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 25, 2023

Has your organization conducted one before? Have you witnessed or even been a part of other organizations’ campaigns in your community? Organizations, seasoned fundraisers, and campaign consultants naturally bring these preconceived notions to the table, shaping the campaigns they join in all kinds of ways from start to finish.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

As many organizations begin eyeing the post-COVID fundraising landscape, many may find themselves in need of increased capacity to better serve their communities and drive their missions forward. . It consists of a series of interviews with your nonprofit’s leaders, key partners, major donors, and other organization stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

Don’t get me wrong, I believe that for social media to be effective it must be aligned with organization’s program and communications objectives. Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age? Integrating Social Media Measurement With Your Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” His model moved to real time planning, although there is some tension between having a strategy and strategic plan. ”But something was missing, strategic plans were not enough, especially with so many broken nonprofit models. Did the organization make decisions? Legal, Financial, Human Capital?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

A: To be honest, I was resistant to working for an organization that I had considered unapproachable and to a degree, exclusive. But the potential impact this organization could have on the community was enormous, and the board wanted to change the organization from grant maker to impact investor.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

And almost everyone involved in your organization—volunteers, staff, and donors—is juggling all the obligations that come with the holidays: planning family meals, shopping for gifts, figuring out whose mother’s house to go to, helping out with church programs, and seeing relatives that you only see once a year—and that’s more than enough!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 25, 2005

The software needs to have tools that allow me to model the approach I take to member service and member sales." I'm thinking of lists and list folders that can help you catagorize people and organizations into key consitutnet groupings. That's because there is another piece of planning work an organization needs to do first.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2020

What we have seen thus far from healthcare organizations and healthcare providers is the true meaning of the word endurance. E ven as healthcare organizations fight this battle, many are strugg ling to keep their doors open. Disruption to the normal business model, for many, impacts cash flow and reduces revenue.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. A company in which employees are co-owners might translate well to a coop model. Who can validate your idea?

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 31, 2013

It’s a delight to contribute several guest blog posts here on fundraising tips & tricks for associations, especially the many small organizations who face a myriad of support and resource challenges. Everything starts (and ends) here. It sounds pretty basic, right? Well, maybe.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Organizers narrow the list down to about 10 to 14 ideas. How an Idea Becomes an App.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As you start to think about how your organization will tell your story this season we enlisted the advice of Vanessa Chase Lockshin, the creator of The Storytelling Nonprofit , to show us how we can stretch our storytelling muscles and get ready for year end! Here’s a short case study of how Ultra Violet has done this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

We have always had, and will generally always need, two forms of networks in organizations: the formal and the informal. The formal organization is represented by the (usually) hierarchical organization structure. The links, or ties, in these structures are reporting relationships.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. But the provider-client model is potentially valuable to fundraisers, too. Demonstrate (and articulate!) Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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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. You spend a ton of time crafting a plan for the organization so that you can begin and gathering baseline numbers, while also setting up tracking systems. So, what next? So, what next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

While many nonprofit professionals talked about how their nonprofits were pressure cookers, Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One, wrote in a comment how grateful she was that her organization promoted a culture of “we care” or wellbeing for its employees. Gabriela graciously agreed to share her experience.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2016

Ganz’s model is popular in activism and politics, but it also has applications for peer-to-peer fundraising. A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise. These two parts of the story are usually easy for people to articulate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Whether the staff is asked on a plane, in an elevator or on a panel, he or she should be able to articulate in 30 to 60 seconds what their charity does. Not everything translates from for-profit to nonprofit. Like this article?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Some organizations might think they have to change totally. The program had shifted too far from the mission to keep people tethered to the organization. You have to get through the feels. What went awry?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2017

The problem with that view, or brand model, is that it’s no longer enough, especially in today’s competitive giving environment. The essence – heart and soul – of your organization. It makes who you are as an organization known, felt and understood. What is a brand? It’s more than a guidelines manual.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

The visual design really begins with the brand of the organization. Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. Methodology. Some come to us and want to create a completely new brand. Other Posts in this Series. Introduction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

What is needed for nonprofit organizations to make this shift? Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start. Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments.

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