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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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It’s like a band with no director – everyone is playing their own song and together it’s just noise instead of beautiful chords of music. Usually, if a nonprofit is struggling in any way, there’s a leadership issue at the top. What nonprofit leadership skills does a Founder or Executive Director need to steer the ship?

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. It was also my duty to organize four fundraising events each year and manage an average six volunteers in any given week. Here are five reasons why: 1.

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8 Tried-and-True (Secret) Individual Donor Fundraising Action Tips

Bloomerang

I know of no other strategy that lifts response as remarkably as this one. ACTION: Get board members to review your donor list. Thank you from Claire, member of the board.”). ACTION: Get your executive director to add notes for all gifts above a certain amount; you add notes for the rest.

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How to Get Beyond B-Minus: The State of Nonprofit Boards Today

BoardAssist

If you were to assign a grade to the board on which you serve, what grade would you give it? Earlier this year BoardSource asked nonprofit CEOs to rate their boards. Their findings: boards earned a 2.65 or B- average — underwhelming results for the top leaders of their organizations and such high achieving individuals.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

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. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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6 Problems Solved By a Written Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

And chances are that “somewhere” will not be a happy place, since time and money will have been spent on outcomes that the staff and the board of directors find disappointing. The good news is everyone wants to be involved with sharing your nonprofit’s story, from the board to the executive director to the staff.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

If you are ready to turn your board around and increase their comfort level with fundraising, Sabrina Walker Hernandez will show you how! We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. Keep doing it.

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