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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.”. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake. Understand the Options.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. If you don’t have leaders with a range of professional backgrounds, there will not be a lot of new thinking. Use the Buddy System.

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Mentor New York’s Virtual Fundraising Event Raises 12x Their Fundraising Goal With CauseVox

CauseVox

This was the scenario for Mentor New York, a nonprofit that works with companies, schools and organizations to provide mentoring for organizations that serve more than 80,000 young people in New York. Like most nonprofits, Mentor New York had to pivot during the pandemic to virtual events and engagement for its supporters.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Professional development (PD) is the "process of improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training." While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills.

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of course, we are not suggesting that you become your staff member’s therapist (if they need one your employee should be able to access your organization’s EAP), it is more about understanding that our team members are dynamic individuals, balancing personal hurdles while also fulfilling their professional duties.

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Before You Say Yes, Bake the Cake Before Committing to Nonprofit Board Service

Bloomerang

It is not favoritism for some because of their social or professional influence and ability to cut a big check. It’s about checks and balances and evaluation. This means a self-assessment of your collective work as the board and a consistent evaluation of the Chief Executive Officer. This is called sponsorship. .

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Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

These are the folks who will raise awareness of the coming need for technology professionals who can provide data analysis and other data services to nonprofits, and guide them to the next rung of the career ladder. Program Evaluation (graduate level certificate). Examples include Bunker Hill Community College and Tech Foundry.