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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

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So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Unplanned change – responding to the unexpected.

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5 Questions to Ask Your Fund Accounting Vendor

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But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. Bonus question: what percentage of the organizations you work with are tax-exempt?

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8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture

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In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Trust: A trusting environment ensures your team feels comfortable sharing their ideas and asking questions.

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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs A Holistic Operations Consultant

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A holistic provider may ask more probing questions than a traditional doctor. When you start with a pain point, you have a different conversation. A more meaningful conversation. Nine out of ten times a senior leader can quickly engage in a full conversation with these simple prompts. However, changing culture will.

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When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong 

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Among the most important questions to ask to avoid this strategic planning pitfall are: What resources—financial, human, and/or organizational—will we need to pursue our strategic priorities? Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.” Where will we need to add, reduce, or diversify talent?

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Nonprofit Finance Leaders: Don’t Miss These bbcon 2023 Sessions

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Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Information is all around us. Data requires intention.