sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mostly we think of this as time spent on a task. But the other more nefarious cost is the amount of time it takes others to aid in completing work outside of their department. Furthermore, the taxing workload degrades our faculty and staff’s time, willingness, and effort. The internal stakeholders are the key to success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies.

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

Restricted funds , however, are donations tied to a specific purpose or time. For example, perhaps a donor gave a large gift for the construction of a new shelter for people experiencing homelessness. The post Making the Switch: What For-Profit CFOs Need to Know About Nonprofit Accounting first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The right fund accounting software can save you time and streamline your processes. But as a community health center, you’re already running on lean margins, which makes it even harder to carve out time to implement new software. You’ll also want someone who is familiar with compliance, especially GAAP and FASB.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

Recognize what’s not serving you so you can make time for new approaches. If your grantee is focused on incorporating community voice , for example, it’s important for you to know basic best practices so you can support that organization in their goal. Layer it into your work, and you will find you have more time for it.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Still, we did not want, for example, an enrollment clerk to be able to change information upon which a business officer relied. This unified approach empowered us with consistency in our data management practices. At Miami Country Day School , we realized that we had to give up on the concept of having one record.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Perhaps there is a time and place for that, but for leaders looking to hone the contrarian craft, we know we must think more freely than this. Leadership is full of examples of great rises and more epic falls. Or will you stifle their ability to become change agents and lead them with a heavy hand?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. For this post we’ll highlight a few examples from our own experimentation, explaining what we see going on and what we’ve learned. Yes, it’s a silly example.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning. These types of agents may support Salesforce as their full-time job or may have a variety of responsibilities, including, but not limited to, being a BA or SU.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 4, 2024

Often times we use arbitrary dates such as January 1 st as mile markers on our journey to success. We see the calendar as a very black and white, finite example of change. Contrary to the new leader who is making decisions for the first time, seasoned leaders tend to avoid ambiguity. In 2024, let us not go to extremes.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sadly, many current change efforts that try to incorporate knowledge work for social good end up with disjointed or burdensome lists of isolated activities that really aren’t very engaging or valuable. Knowledge, however, is socially constructed and located specifically in place and time.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

When a new person comes on, it’s a good time to understand exactly what access they need. For example, build and save a query of requests that display important details like grantee name, requested amount, project title, project description, project start date, and review notes.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

At a time when as many as one in three bachelor’s degree recipients in the U.S. One implication of a shrinking pipeline is more time, staffing, and money dedicated to recruitment efforts. Some government funding hinges on full-time enrollment numbers, and fewer full-time students means less subsidy. For example, the U.S.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

While there is a time and place for holding organizations accountable for fiduciary and ethical violations, many organizations that do step out to try something new or that are transparent about what aspects go unexpectedly awry are “outed” and characterized as being a risky bet or less fundable. Their response in year two?

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

For example, because cloud-based applications are hosted centrally, these applications are open for many seamless integrations with other like-minded tools for fundraising, expense management, website integration, email marketing, and analytics that could never function if these tools had to work with thousands of disparate, self-hosted databases.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

The organization was recruiting women who had spare time—which left out many of the younger, more diverse voices who had children, school, and multiple priorities. How can we make sure we are capturing the incremental stories and the impact we are having over time?” When you take a bet on me, are you failing? Will something go wrong?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. In their book, the authors use eight themes to offer guidance on how to change perspective and view the enterprise as a living organization, enabled by technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Already, some of our advocacy work is progressing in large part because of savvy use of social media (see our blog about chemicals and toxics ). We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." Then I assigned each topical section of the binder to my coworkers, we set up a meeting time a week or two later, and they did their homework and then reconvened to discuss the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So, we came up with this topic: " Creating a Culture that is not Afraid to Fail. " I thought this would be a great opportunity to reflect on some of my recent blog posts on this topic as well as gain new insights from others who work on social media in a corporate (and nonprofit) setting as well as my network.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

So what happens when, for example, your Accounts Payable clerk takes a position elsewhere? Are you taking advantage of this by asking your constituents to donate their time to your organization, instead of their money? For many nonprofits, salaries and benefits for staff make up the largest percentage of admin costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

His answer, " There are many ways, but we do spend a great deal of time sending virtual birthday cards to folks." At barely a quarter of a century this remarkable dare I say trend setting young woman has become a role model, an example of how to connect and interact with legions of people in all walks of life. I got curious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

As Charlene Li pointed out, " Change management processes take years - you don't change over night. Take for example, the steps outlined in this " Twitter for the Workplace " article. At the same time, I'm grateful that they're open to using social media in the first place, so I don't want to complain too much.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. For example, if I have to do some writing that requires a higher level of attention for me than does scanning Twitter or reading and responding to email, I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. I've charted those – so I know when they occur).

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NTEN

DECEMBER 15, 2011

It's that time of year when many of us reflect on the work we've accomplished over the year. TIME Magazine reflected and determined this was the year of "The Protester." We understand that executive directors may not have the time to attend webinars or conferences about technology. The content?

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

[This is part three of a series taking a closer look at the key benchmarks from our 6th Annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing & Investments Survey Report , conducted with The NonProfit Times. We think of ourselves as cutting edge, using QR codes for both exhibits and fundraising, for example. What is Tech Adoption? "We

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is our most popular Managing eLearning post every year, and by now we know you want to see the hype curve first. As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Most examples we have of successful IT practices would likely fail in a nonprofit context, though. After all, those organizations must know what works when it comes to IT -- they spend a lot more time and money on it. Sometimes the user/manager and executive are the same person. Even that simple blog is not so simple.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2011

Have More Than A Job Description Finding, hiring, and retaining talent takes time, money, and effort. They've been taught to do some research, have good examples of prior experience, and they know their references will say good things about them. This can be overlooked when it's budget time or is tempting to cut when times are tough.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

There are many examples like this; perhaps you have some from your own organization. The point is that the changing demographics of the country are forcing nonprofits to address issues of diversity in their organization. Articulating your business goals will make it easier to keep your "eye on the prize" when times get rough.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

It is a system that is intuitive enough for the average user to use but can also be modified easily without intervention from developers or needing to call Blackbaud’s support every time a change is needed. That is why we are making it possible to view and edit Microsoft documents directly within Blackbaud Grantmaking. It’s a win win!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

Consider, for example, that your constituent management system is a LTR (Long Term Relationship) whereas other systems and technologies may change faster, and services agreements may need to be rebid quite frequently – perhaps annually. Pick the right one, implement it effectively and you are set for a long time.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

We're usually expecting to hear things like "Our staff will spend significantly less time putting together monthly reports" or "We will finally have agreement between the membership lists on the website and in the AMS." The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Take adoption of cloud technology as a good example. The key is to begin, said Linton Myers, Director of Innovation and Incubation at Blackbaud, and keep trying, even if the first attempt is not a slam-dunk. “Risk-averse leaders look at failures as a time loss, resource loss, or budget loss,” Myers said.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year.

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