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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Adding to the complication, unless you are currently facing a challenge, risk is abstract. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. In fast-paced digital markets, strategies that include both opportunities and challenges are essential to growth.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

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Here are the top 10 data challenges associations like yours are running into – and solutions on how to overcome them. 10: Your Data Volume and Complexity Challenge : If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data your association collects, you’re certainly not alone. Solution : Solve this challenge by creating a data capture policy.

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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its own challenges: extensive reporting mandates, a list of requirements to qualify for funding, and the possibility of mission creep to meet those requirements. Focus on the why. Seek clarity.

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[Case Study] First-Time Golf Tournament Exceeds Fundraising Goal for Habitat for Humanity of Chicago

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Chris says Habitat is helping address these issues, not only through physically building homes and neighborhoods, but by educating people and helping them navigate what can be an overwhelming and complicated process. The Challenge. The first-year tournament surpassed its fundraising goal, taking in $13,000. The Results.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Actually, the process is based on three decades of research conducted by authors Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. The SWOT analysis, which typically begins a planning process, makes you a prisoner of that crowded environment. The process centers around those hallmarks of the digital marketplace, innovation and value.”

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Hiring for fit is more challenging. Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Our interview process is rigorous. Trust me, it’s worth it.

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What are Challenge Gifts?

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A challenge gift is a donation that creates an incentive for others to give by offering a financial reward based on an established contingency. Challenge gifts are issued only once a contingency, or “challenge,” has been achieved.

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