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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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For staff, working in a start-up nonprofit is often an exercise in mindreading. They may hew to an established strategic plan or question ambitious fundraising goals, for example. In a successful nonprofit, the board’s primary responsibilities include exercising fiduciary duties and supervising the Executive Director.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

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Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. They generally last between two and three years, sometimes longer, and consist of these phases: Pre-planning - 3-12 months: This is when you’ll establish your campaign’s objectives and goal. What should you do instead?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. For example, I recently gave a webinar on social media for engagement of Alumni Networks. You also need to design good openers and closers ! I do this all the time.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. If you are providing sports opportunities for kids, for example, what will you need? Sit down and write out the answers to these questions.

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The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide

Everyaction

Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Just a heads-up: this is a long read. Let's get started! This is definitely an “ask” worth making!

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. For example, on Twitter, a strong tie could be two nodes or people that engage consistently in two-way conversation. A connection between people is called link.