Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2020

Sharon’s 30+ years in the nonprofit sector have made her passionate about educating nonprofits on the role of compliance as both a best practice and an industry differentiator. By Sharon Cody , Partnership Manager at Harbor Compliance , a leading provider of compliance solutions for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: Allison Fine and I have been actively researching, writing, and presenting about AI for Social Good. What about you? What will you accomplish in 2020?

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 2, 2020

In the December newsletter you'll learn about the updated navigation menu, find extra support for using the new email editor and info on the upcoming webinar about marketing.

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Blue Fox

JANUARY 27, 2020

In January, I had the opportunity to talk to 40 or so people in our local community of Melbourne, Florida about nonprofit financial sustainability. It was a lively discussion, especially when we got to talking about the key components of an efficient and sustainable nonprofit back office.

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Blue Fox

JANUARY 2, 2020

About Blue Fox: Our team provides customized, boutique financial and back office services for social impact organizations. If you’re interested in hearing more from us, subscribe to our newsletter today !

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 31, 2020

For example, use your AMS to collect and analyze data about your members’ career stages, interests, and behaviors to provide them with the personalized benefits they’re seeking. say they worry about data privacy and security. Learn more about why Nimble AMS is the most in-demand AMS built on the Salesforce CRM platform.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 8, 2020

The RFP: What it is An RFP is a document that provides background and details about your project and solicits bids from vendors. Be realistic and flexible about the ideal time to begin your AMS project implementation. Your organization might write the RFP, or you might work with a third-party consultant to help you write it.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

And what about tools? How about tools to look for security issues? NOTE: Nimble AMS offers a safe alternative to custom-built software, allowing you to manage every aspect of your association while providing all the benefits customers love about the Salesforce platform. Why build when you can buy? Explore Nimble AMS.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 28, 2020

In this month's newsletter, see some of the training sessions you can join at PersoniFest, learn about the new Help Center options, and meet one of our onboarding coaches.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 15, 2020

Take a look at some of the updates and new features we added to Wild Apricot in 2019, learn more about how you can use them, and get a look at what's coming up in 2020.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2020

How do you go about questioning your own assumptions about the business? How do you get your team to do the same about their own assumptions? Do you push your reports to meet only the formal goals set for the team, or are there other goals that employees sometimes also strive to achieve?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2020

The book, by Keith Rollag , is all about how to be comfortable, confident, and successful in new situations. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful. Rollag explains how to ask new people questions about themselves in a way that's strategic and inviting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2020

She writes about how to drive change, manage transitions, and help any organization turn around. Jackie Jenkins-Scott One of my favorite parts of the book is Jenkins-Scott’s observations about how to remove barriers when communicating. Resilience : The capacity to recover, to keep going forward in the face of adversity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

By the time you finish the book, you will also have learned about the nine habits that inspire trust. Question: Let’s talk about being humble and how it relates to great leadership. Jim Collins captured this difference when he talked about level 5 leaders in his book, Good to Great. It’s easy to mistake arrogance for confidence.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2020

They provide the following great advice about giving feedback: 1. Eric Harvey and Al Lucia wrote a booklet called, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk. Make it timely -- give your feedback as soon as possible to the performance. Make it individualized -- tailor your feedback to the feedback receiver.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2020

The following great advice about how to apologize is from the book, The Courage Solution , by Mindy Mackenzie. She recommends you include these three elements when you apologize: Actually say "I'm sorry" out loud, while making eye contact, if possible. Asking humbly, "How can I fix this?"

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2020

Due to your lead nurturing strategy and segmentation, you should know a lot more about your subscribers. It’s important that you don’t bombard their mailbox as much as not communicating often enough so they forget about you. Your customers will value your content more if they can connect with it. Map Content.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Author Bill McBean has spent about 40 years as a successful business owner. Planning is about preparing for the future, not predicting it. The Facts Of Business Life -- What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't. His advice? If you don't market your business, you won't have one.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Drucker's book called, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization , will be well worth it. If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F. This book may fundamentally change the way you work and lead your organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2020

That means you have to be proactive about learning how to be a good manager. Whatever you do, don't sit back and do nothing. Managing even one employee can be challenging. And many managers receive little or no formal training on how to be a manager. So, ask for help.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

Some of the moments are counter-intuitive and will contradict some of the prevailing wisdom about leadership. What are common misconceptions about leadership? She has been much more open, transparent, and accountable than auto company leaders have traditionally been about recalls.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2020

"The more specific you can be about your goal, the greater your level of success will be," explain authors Tom Pandola and James W. Bird , in their book, Light A Fire Under Your Business.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 14, 2020

Think about how much your AMS is costing you in dollars, time, and hassle before deciding if you want to upgrade it. Here are two critically important questions to ask yourself before moving ahead with your organization’s next AMS upgrade: How much is our current AMS really costing us?

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 8, 2020

We were all on pins and needles, and most of us were constantly stressed about finance. . Foundations and institutional funders were talking about sustainability and capacity building, but what we really needed was operating funds. together as we talk about all the money things ? Overhead dread set in with each grant or ask.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 24, 2020

it’s about belonging. Similar to how donors seek an online donation form, think about the end targets of users on your website. Your website is likely the first place that people visit to learn more about your association. They’re not only “members” in the sense that they get discounts or a subscription ?

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

However, in order to leverage events to sustain your membership, your AMS should offer event management features that allow your members to learn about upcoming events on your website and easily register for them. Send communications to select groups of members about the events they’ve registered for or events they may be interested in. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 25, 2020

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart , quote Donna Hicks's explanation about how dignity is different from respect. Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

That’s what today’s guest is here to talk about. John Wilburn, director of direct response for the National Park Foundation, joined guest host Christine Newman at bbcon to talk about how being data-driven and open to innovation has helped him develop a successful direct marketing program at the organization.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2020

A good managing editor is obsessive about details, deadline-conscious, has serious copyediting chops, and checks their ego at the door. It’s not just about publishing, but also maintaining, updating, and leveraging existing content to get it in front of more people. More than that, a managing editor prioritizes content governance.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2020

This month we're talking about wellbeing. Last week, I told you some of my thoughts about my own wellbeing plan for the year. I've thought a great deal about myself. Written by Laura Crossley Our wellbeing can affect how we feel about our lives, jobs, and relationships. I'm a workaholic. How much of this is healthy?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2020

Today, Tanya Fitzgerald, senior marketing manager at Blackbaud, joins the podcast again to talk to host Steve MacLaughlin about the key aspects to a plan that sets your organization up for success. Topics Discussed in This Episode: What metrics fundraising teams should look at to improve performance in 2020.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

First, I think that museums need to think about their staff as a stakeholder group worthy of just as much time, attention, energy, and evaluation as visitors or donors. How might we re-imagine the future of mission-based work?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2020

It forces organization s to think about where the buyer is in the purchase journey and what content /messages would be the most relevant at that time. . A patron can’t visit your organization if he or she doesn’t know about you. In Consideration , you want to talk about reasons to visit or attend. Awareness .

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today’s episode, recorded live at bbcon 2019, is all about how to build and grow a successful sustainer giving program. Kristin Jackson and Bethany Taylor from Boise State Public Radio’s membership team sat down with guest host Christine Newman to talk about the success they’ve had building and expanding their sustainer giving program.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2020

Think about it as an IF – THEN relationship between a major project activity (critical treatment/ program step) and the behavioral change (results) that defines success for that activity.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

This is especially true if your year-end campaigns were strategically planned to generate and collect plenty of useful performance data ( learn more about that here ). Check out this guide from Astron Solutions to learn more about talent management systems designed for smaller organizations to see some in action.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2020

With the demonstrated power of giving days for higher ed, now is a perfect time to start thinking about adding one to your fundraising strategy like we did at Brown University. Learn more about Brown University’s success in this free on-demand webinar: Finding Success With Higher Education Giving Days.

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