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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

Get Fully Funded

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. What nonprofit leadership skills does a Founder or Executive Director need to steer the ship? Where do you need to improve?

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Together, the data from analytics and user feedback can help inform improvements, structure, and enhancements to your redesigned website. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? Here’s an example of how to structure your scoping document outline: About the Organization.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

.orgSource

Articulate the Vision Writing the diversity statement can be a co-creative activity. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. A professional DEI training program can help people identify blind spots and biases while maintaining a safe and supportive atmosphere.

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How To Build Your Power And Influence Within The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book is structured into 15 insightful chapters, each focusing on a unique aspect of power and influence. Dilenschneider : Common mistakes in gaining influence include lacking a defined mission, poor communication skills, inflexibility, disingenuous networking, and compromising values for expediency.

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Top Interview Questions For Hiring a Major Gifts Officer

Allegiance Group

What skills and qualities should you look for in a major gifts officer? The MGO is a big deal because it requires a unique skill set: A love for people A genuine dedication to your cause A good storyteller (and ‘question asker’!) only the soft, albeit very important, focus on relationships).

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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

Bloomerang

Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. We often put things off, placing learning skills on the shelf where they weren’t easily accessible to us. We didn’t stop trying.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.