sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. How can you pave the way for responsive philanthropy in your community’s time of need? In times of urgent need, technology can enable staff to manage rapid changes with greater ease.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

from our friends at ParsonsTKO Selecting technology for a nonprofit or social good organization can take significant time and effort. Depending on the size, reach, and impact anticipated from a technology change, engaging the board of directors is often critical to your success. Try one (or both!) Focus on improving your operations.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. For example, you will be reviewing your expense management processes as part of this project, but any fundraising management topics will be reserved for a later initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. Everything changes autonomously, of its own accord. ".

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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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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere. Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is perhaps the most important asset to further your mission and accomplish your organizational goals, so when it’s time to undertake a redesign, planning is of the utmost importance. Decide what will change based on user segmentation and where this will occur on the website.

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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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

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fusionSpan

MAY 19, 2024

That said, it’s not only a question of keeping up with the times. As Salesforce found in their nonprofit trend report, digitally mature organizations are twice as likely to see improvement in efficiency, and four times more likely to achieve their mission goals. Are new members receiving welcome messaging at the right time?

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Some have years of experience and are leading with the knowledge and resourcefulness they have acquired over time. Nine out of ten times a senior leader can quickly engage in a full conversation with these simple prompts. Changing systems from QuickBooks to Intacct is not going to solve a “bad reporting” issue.

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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

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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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.

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NTEN

JUNE 5, 2013

Many executives don’t approach management and leadership in accounting or evaluation matters, for example, with the same trepidation as they do technology. And yet the same skills that make any leader effective are appropriate to managing technology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, if you were creating a job description for a development associate at your nonprofit, you might have a purpose statement that says: “The development associate will source and recommend grant applications to the development manager to ensure that the organization is exploring all of the funding resources available.

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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.

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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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Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some common focus areas for investments in government digital transformation might include using and optimizing data and analytics collection, updating IT infrastructures, migrating data and files to a cloud storage, and facilitating change management. Organize for success.

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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

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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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. As a dictator, Caesar refused to “think outside the box” and instead led highhandedly and without imagination.

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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

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

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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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. For example, the University of Kentucky publishes this skills checklist with a list of basic computer skills you could adapt to your context. Or take advantage of free tools.

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NTEN

MARCH 13, 2015

Mina Chang. For example: How does your nonprofit leadership feel about unmanned aerial vehicles? The response to the disaster made history, too: It marked the first time that unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, were used to save lives and provide relief in the aftermath of a storm. Linking the World.

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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

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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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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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Change management: Planning and executing changes to your Salesforce configuration and managing the release of new Salesforce features. With a team of experts handling all aspects of your org, you can free up time to focus on other important tasks.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ensuring fundraising success is more important than ever and our team at Blackbaud is monitoring the latest trends coming out of our Blackbaud Fundraiser Performance Management community to help our customers stay relevant and innovative. . Mastering change management to usher in digital transformation .

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