Wed.Sep 02, 2015

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Healthy and Productive Nonprofit Meetings: What Does the Research Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Haldane Martin. How many meetings and conference calls did you have yesterday? Our work days are filled with meetings and conference calls with the intent of getting stuff done. But many meetings end up being a complete waste of time. That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill.

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How To Lead Breakthrough Change

Eric Jacobsen Blog

David S. Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. This book tells the in-the-trenches stories of individuals who led bold, sweeping change.

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5 Tips to Collect More of Your Nonprofit’s Inspiring Stories

NonProfit Hub

Vanessa Chase is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. She is the President of The Storytelling Non-Profit and co-founder of Stewardship School. Vanessa works with nonprofit organizations to help them develop stories for donor communications and fundraising appeals. You can follow her on Twitter @VanessaEChase and find more storytelling resources on The Storytelling Non-Profit Blog.

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10 Signs That Indicate You Are Ready For A New Challenge

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Liz Wiseman 's latest book is Rookie Smarts. It's all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something. And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." "Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Save Money on Mobile While Giving Back with Sparrow

Tech Soup

This is a guest blog post by Heather Forsythe, chief marketing officer at Sparrow. I'd like to introduce you to Sparrow. Sparrow is a mobile service provider offering fair and transparent pricing to conscious consumers as well as nonprofits and those they serve. With each new Sparrow customer, a mobile device is donated to a person in need. So you can save money while paying it forward.

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3 Things To Know About Donor Behavior

Achieve

This article originally appeared on. Philantopic. on September 2, 2015. When I first got into fundraising, I executed campaigns without worrying too much about donors or spending a lot of time thinking about why or how they responded to particular strategies or appeals. Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain

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Customer Service: Well Done is Better than Well Said

Gyrus

Sticking with the Ben Franklin theme I started last week, today I discuss a personal example that illustrates the simple idea Franklin meant with his quote, “ Well done is better than well said.” I recently hired a contractor to replace the roof on my house. I previously used this company and was happy with their work, plus they have outstanding customer service so I was comfortable hiring them again.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

Museum 2.0

Blessing of the Replica Boards, July 19, 2015, 8am. Photo by Jon Bailiff. Relevance is not an end unto itself. It is a bridge. When you open the path, people flood in. You open the potential for something more. But a bridge to nowhere is quickly abandoned. Relevance only leads to deep meaning if it leads to something significant. Killer content. Substantive programming.

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The Analytics Forecast:  Cloudy Days Ahead!

Connection Cafe

In my previous blogs, I talked about some of the advantages of the cloud , including security, availability, seamless and frequent updates, zero maintenance, affordability, efficiency, and everywhere/anytime access. While these are all important, there is another benefit of the cloud that excites me even more—analytics. Cloud analytics offer unrivaled opportunities to pinpoint the most effective ways to accelerate the mission of your specific organization and enable the highest quality solution

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What’s Next for Online Communities?

AFP Blog

What’s Next for Online Communities?

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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The Opportunity Your Museum Can Offer

Connection Cafe

I don’t know about you, but one of the things I love most about the arts is the opportunity it provides. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, art has a way of tapping into something core to all of us that can open new worlds of learning in a way that nothing else can. So when I stumbled across Austin Museum Day , project of the Austin Museum Partnership, I loved discovering that this event is offering free admission to thousands of Austin residents who likely wouldn’t otherwise visi

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Fundraising Tools to Help You Prepare for End-of-the-Year Campaigns

Tech Soup

With #GivingTuesday and end-of-the-year campaigns only a few months away in December, we wanted to round up some of the best fundraising tools from the TechSoup catalog. Up the donation ante with donor management tools, crowdfunding platforms, mobile giving solutions, and so much more. Donor Management and Other Constituent Relationship Management Tools.