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4 ways your site should support year-end virtual fundraising

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This means your website is one of your nonprofit’s most valuable tools for staying connected to your supporters and bringing in end-of-year donations. After helping hundreds of organizations prep their own sites for year-end fundraising, we have a few key recommendations: Use integrated tools whenever possible. Let’s get started.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”. But what is it?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Practitioners are tasked with understanding how their assumptions or mindsets about objectivity, rigor and evidence; resources; roles; definitions, perceptions, and decisions; relationships; and productivity and accountability all may bias their MEL approaches. Our decision to ‘queer’ traditional approaches to MEL is a political stance.

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Taking Action: Fundraising Trends And Best Practices From Bloomerang’s ‘Fundraising Planning and Climate Report’

Bloomerang

My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones. Have you tried bringing in a communications facilitator to deepen the conversation? Having a better set of dilemmas is a sign of progress and growth.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. Facilitator. There are lots of tools out there that can help. So, if leadership is the difference between a nonprofit’s success or failure, what does it take to be a good leader?

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. They act as either individuals or on behalf of organizations. Each one is different in its DNA.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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