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How to Recruit Volunteers from Start to Finish

Wild Apricot

Recruiting volunteers doesn't have to be difficult. Create your own recruitment process and engage your volunteers with tips from this amazing guide!

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Improve member loyalty in associations with the rise of the subscription economy

Nimble AMS

How auto-renewal of individual and company memberships can increase loyalty and retention. Member loyalty. It’s always on the minds of associations. How can you recruit, engage, and, most importantly, retain members? Here’s one way. Associations that can differentiate themselves are on the leading edge of member retention. How then do you distinguish yourself in a crowded market?

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Single Most Important Way That Nonprofit Leaders Make Personal Resilience A Habit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. The session was based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and covered the topics of recognizing burnout and stress, creating a self-care plan, and implementing new personal resilience habits. The participants represented a wide range including activists, funders, and nonprofits.

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How to Write a Timeless Nonprofit Mission Statement

Elevation

Consider your nonprofit like a house. While your beneficiaries are enjoying the house from the inside, your sponsors and partners are helping renovate the house, your marketing/communications team are enhancing the exterior, and the rest of your team is making sure the house is functional and the beneficiaries are uplifted. This is a remarkable group effort, made possible through the combined support of all branches.

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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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10 Compelling Reasons Why You Need Learning Management Systems

Gyrus

With businesses becoming more focussed towards automation, it is essential to know Why You Need Learning Management Systems in your organization.

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What automation can do for your association

Nimble AMS

How your association can leverage automation and AI to be more in tune with what members want. Workflow automation and artificial intelligence technologies can make associations more efficient and more in tune with what members want. Here’s more about these automation technologies, what they can do for your association, and how to start using them. You’ve probably heard about workflow automation and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

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10 More Ways To Be A Better Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Be willing to change your decisions. End every meeting with a follow-up To Do list.

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Why embracing outreach is important for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by Cambria Bowman Fall 2016 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Changemakers of the world are passionate about their communities and organizations, but helping others ignite their passions and sustain improvement requires sustainability strategies. Sparking action in a community encourages advocates for community engagement; it can be a “potential catalyst, seeking to fan an initial flame.

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Who are we, museums?

Museum 2.0

This month, I want to ask us this question. As a field, who are we? I have been thinking about this question at work for the past few weeks. I had started a rapid research experiment recently. I invite the whole staff to my office anytime between 2-3 on Tuesdays to answer one question. They get a cookie, and leave their desks for 15 minutes, interact with colleagues from outside their silo, and I get a bit more insight as we build our audience engagement plan.

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The Yin and Yang of Building Email Lists

Connection Cafe

Yin and Yang – the concept of two forces co-existing in harmony as opposites– isn’t often what one thinks about when considering how to grow an email list. But recent changes by email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook now makes this ancient idea incredibly relevant today. Why? For nearly two decades, online fundraising was simply seen as a numbers game and bigger was better.

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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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10 Essential Elements Of Dignity

Eric Jacobsen Blog

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. Therefore, Espinoza and Schwarzbart recommend that leaders treat those they are leading with dignity and follow Hick's 10 Essential Elements of Dignity : Accepta

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30+ of the Best Google Docs Templates for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

Creating a presentation for your board? Wading into end-of-project paperwork? Or maybe you’re signing up a new crop of volunteers for your non-profit. Whatever the task, odds are that there’s a time-saving Google Docs template to help.

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Follow the leader for ideal upgrades to your association management software

Nimble AMS

What associations can learn by following the leading CRM, Salesforce. Does your AMS follow the ideal product upgrade model set forth by Salesforce, the leader in customer relationship management? It should. Here’s why. Organizations often struggle with the costs and risks involved with upgrading their association management software (AMS). Those challenges typically include: Paying as much as tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for each upgrade.

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Donation Forms Dissected: Where We’re Winning & Losing in Online Fundraising

Connection Cafe

We’ve filled out a lot of online donation forms. We constantly make small donations to some of our favorite causes to see exactly how well their donation forms perform. With online giving (including mobile giving) on the rise, we’re always hunting for shining examples of the very best donation experiences. To see how the average online giving experience is faring in 2019, we recently did a little experiment.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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When Upset, Do This Before You Send Your Response

Eric Jacobsen Blog

As a leader a time will come when you have to write an email, memo or letter to address an issue of great importance or concern to you. Or, perhaps in response to something that displeased you, disappointed you, frustrated you, or upset you. Write that document. Then, let it sit. Preferably, let it sit for 24 hours. Then, re-read it. It's almost guaranteed you'll end up tweaking the document.

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10 Great Nonprofit Websites and How To Improve Yours

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

by Olivia Warnes. Check out these 10 examples of excellent nonprofit’s websites for tips on how to improve your own. Your website is the centre of your nonprofits online presence. Your nonprofit’s website is essential to the success of your nonprofit so it has to be it’s as effective and appealing as possible. It’s the centre of your digital marketing campaigns!

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Must Modern Philanthropy Be So Corrosive?

Non Profit Quarterly

September 6, 2019, New Yorker and WGBH. In a recent story, NPQ , quoting Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , asked, “How evil is too evil when it comes to donors?” As new details emerged last week of Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this question took on new relevance.

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Your Small Staff Can Make a Big Impact Using Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Connection Cafe

So, you’ve seen the fundraisers that your friends and organizations are doing on your social media feed. Some are reaching out to friends and family for contributions for a cause they care about. Others are combining their fundraising with a fitness challenge or some other personal goal or celebration. Social media and personal networks are powerful, but what is it your friends are doing, exactly, and how does it work?

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Three Ways To Be An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be decisive A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision. Employees end up spinning in circles, slicing and dicing the information far beyond what is truly needed for the manager to make a decision.

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How You Can Reach Your Goals

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Social psychologist, Heidi Grant Halvorson , wrote Succeed to help you understand how goals work, what tends to go wrong, and what you can do to reach your goals or to help others reach theirs. Because many of us struggle each year to fulfill our New Year's Resolutions (goals), Halvorson's book, packed with the findings from her own research, along with the most useful tips from academic journals and handbooks, is a worthwhile read.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 114: Leadership in the Connected Office

Connection Cafe

What is leadership? Knowing that management is directive and leadership is connective is a great place to start, but social good leaders often struggle with understanding and balancing these two. To explore what leadership really means in a connected organization, Marc Pitman joins host Steve MacLaughlin on the podcast today to talk about the role of the social good CEO or executive director in fundraising, how to connect and balance internal and external leadership, and why continuous improveme

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How to Hype Homecoming Using Social Media

Connection Cafe

Do you need a social media strategy for homecoming? Absolutely! And you’ve probably already got one. Students, alumni, parents, and friends are living life’s biggest moments online. Your alumni post on Facebook, addictively scroll through Instagram and celebrate their marriages with custom hashtags; having a social strategy for homecoming helps you find them where they are.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Grant Seeking 101: Thinking Like a Reviewer

Connection Cafe

You’ve worked hard. You’ve determined your organization is grants-ready , searched high and low to find the best grant , and written an application that would make your English teacher proud. You’re almost there! But you’ve got one last step before you hit Submit —take one last look at your application from the perspective of a reviewer. When I served on a committee that reviewed grants, I learned a lot of things I wish I’d known as an applicant.

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