Greater Giving

MARCH 19, 2024

Leading with Purpose: Essential Traits of Effective Nonprofit Leaders The nonprofit sector thrives on passionate individuals dedicated to making a difference. Effective nonprofit leaders are purpose-driven, fostering a positive environment where staff, volunteers, and donors feel valued and empowered. 1 fundraising conference.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues. Such processes, if they even exist, are often too informal and lack clear expectations of what it means to be accountable for a nonprofit organization’s success. Reality 1: Most boards live by the rule of thirds.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This is where an effective nonprofit homepage becomes especially important; it’s not only the first landing page supporters see. It also solidifies their first impression of your organization and influences whether they’re interested in further exploring and supporting your cause. Issue areas. Impact stories.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan. The board plays the central role of visionary. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? You probably learned that not everyone needs to be in your office to effectively carry out their jobs. Most importantly, with all of these changes, your team’s roles changed, too. But are you ready?

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Art of Event Promotion Through Media Relations As an event organizer, one of your primary goals is to ensure that your event reaches its maximum potential in terms of attendance and impact. To achieve this, an often overlooked but crucial aspect is the role of Media Relations on your event committee.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

E : Engage and Effect Change. It can help employees be crystal clear on their goals; create many pathways to a win; ensure that their vision is clear of distortion and blind spots; and then engage and effect change in their organization. Question: Why are today’s businesses and organizations facing a leadership crisis?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. No matter how expertly executed, switching roles and responsibilities is disruptive. Clarify Roles. Understand the Options.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The public counts on nonprofit organizations to champion important issues and bring about positive change. But a nonprofit organization’s yearly financial budget isn’t always enough for its goals. And because GoFundMe has a 0% platform fee , your organization will be able to keep more of the funds raised.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

A freelance expert can train current staff and get your organization up to speed. This idea is the most practical and, in some ways, the most effective. Promote data sharing across the organization, and reward people for effectively using new analytic tools. New talent needs a permanent line in the budget.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Data quality is essential for organizations and membership associations. But if those standards aren’t put in place or enforced, you’ll find that Salesforce’s automation and AI features don’t have the quality of data they need to be effective – and you’ll need to carry out data cleansing to get them back on track.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the past few months, we’ve been discussing the core elements of effective creative and how to incorporate them into your direct response creative. An email may be signed by an organization’s president or development director. A text message might be from a staff organizer or a volunteer. Source: SEIU.

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.orgSource

APRIL 25, 2023

Even if the job market becomes more advantageous to employers, post-pandemic job seekers are intensely focused on issues that go beyond compensation and benefits. However, the data you gather will depend on what information proves to be most useful for your organization. Before adding talent, have a thoughtful conversation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

Leadership succession planning, similar to donor succession planning, is often addressed when the concern arises rather than preemptively within a nonprofit organization’s fiscal year. This is a common theme that lurks in the veins of many of our organizations. This rings true for many organizations. Recommendations.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

The emergence of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the development of new and unexpected roles on an event team. It also means assembling a team that will assist in setting up an effective event strategy and one that supports your participants and attendees in getting the most value from their experience.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

With individuals increasingly turning to search engines to help them understand health issues, user-friendly healthcare websites are more crucial than ever. Consider your healthcare organization’s website — is it a useful resource that serves your community, or is there room for improvement? Take a continuous improvement approach.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. Make time to audit the impact working from home is having on your organization. Early in our relationship, my executive coach reminded me that every CEO gets the organization they deserve. shared this valuable advice.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. In addition to being important for leaders like the CEO and the CTO, EI can also help anyone to organize effective teams and give them the ability to successfully collaborate. That last bullet is important. We all tend to label.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. Two prevalent scenarios, both lacking collaboration I’ve observed two nonprofit governance scenarios prevalent across the sector.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

As the home of organizations that draw on decades of history, it’s not surprising that we love the security of time-honored strategies. Success belongs to organizations that adapt to a shifting environment. Is your relationship with the board effective? Is your organization’s strategic plan serving its needs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Cabral, MA, CFRE, MFIA , founder of Development Consulting Services , which serves both fundraising professionals and executive directors new to fundraising, wanting to excel in their fundraising role, or advance in their career. Today, there are much more effective and cost-efficient strategies with higher returns.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An analog mindset won’t produce effective solutions. Replace Squinting With Scanning The CEO’s job is to run the organization. Our board’s primary role is fiduciary, and they also guide our strategy. No board will have expertise on every issue that comes their way. A different perspective is needed.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It turns out one of the most important strategies for our time is the ability to effectively generate, exchange, and adopt new ways of doing things. As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. Define roles for each participant. Do you have one in place? Give everybody a turn.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

Ask those same association executives what they’re doing to try to solve their data issues and they’ll likely say they have a staff member dedicated to cleaning things up, but it’s a constant moving target. It’s time for your association to take advantage of the Fresh Start Effect. So how do you make a Fresh Start?

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s time for your organization to purchase new association management software (AMS). Read our blog for four tips to ensure your AMS tech pitch appeals to your individual board member’s roles and concerns. Here are some examples of how you can speak to each of your board members effectively , addressing their e xpertise : 1.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

The emergence of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the development of new and unexpected roles on an event team. It also means assembling a team that will assist in setting up an effective event strategy and one that supports your participants and attendees in getting the most value from their experience.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

With employees working all over the country, or world, at different times of day and juggling competing priorities, effective project communication is not only helpful but necessary, creating cohesion and efficiency internally and with partner teams. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. Audit teams would then be caught off guard, unaware of either newly implemented accounting systems, new chart of accounts, or changes in processes and management roles.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Data management and other internal components are increasingly becoming critical issues for organizations. However, this infrastructure is critical in allowing organizations to raise money and steward donors more effectively. Development operations is one of the most overlooked and undervalued areas in our field.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2019

At the sector level, reports have provided data and recommendations; unfortunately, many of these ideas have not been implemented effectively into the field.”. Nonprofit organizations are often not able to have separate human resources departments due to budgeting and staff restraints. Recruitment.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Organizations of all stripes were quick to issue statements confirming their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. On the other hand, these barriers may be preventing some organizations from moving their ideals to action. Gather information and resources from organizations that are successfully implementing programs.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective supervision can empower your volunteers to reach goals and do their best work. The role of your volunteer supervisor should not just be to manage, but to also lead, communicate with, and engage volunteer constituents. Do they feel confident in their volunteer role? Supervising volunteers can be a challenging task.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2022

When nonprofit employees, leaders and their boards are not reflective of the communities they serve, they jeopardize mission attainment and the implementation of ineffective strategies to address social issues. Nonprofit organizations have barriers with increasing staff diversity for a few reasons.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2024

As someone entrenched in the mission to address food insecurity, I have come to appreciate the indispensable role of intrapreneurship within our sector. Intrapreneurship encourages individuals within organizations to leverage their creativity, resourcefulness, and passion to develop innovative solutions from within.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As a result, they work with insufficient funding and support while feeling undervalued—which further complicates their efforts to lead effectively. Organizations led by Black women CEOs are disproportionately represented among the smallest entities, operating with minimal funding and resources. And that’s not even on the table for me.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 19, 2023

Project retrospec tives play a pivotal role to capture lessons learned. Retrospectives provide a safe space for individuals to share their perspectives, leading to a deeper understanding of team dynamics, and better identifying effective strategies.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

A well-developed project charter can help to keep stakeholders aligned from the onset, avoid common risks and pitfalls, and ensure that you’re making the most effective use of your resources. Project Team List the names, titles, and respective roles of your core project team. What is the impact of the problem?

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