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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. The board plays the central role of visionary. You can set the stage for success by: Defining roles and responsibilities.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. The board plays the central role of visionary. You can set the stage for success by: Defining roles and responsibilities.

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How to Build Your Nonprofit’s MarTech Stack

Media Cause

Dig Deeper to Discover What’s Missing Running through this additional exercise may help you make the business case that a new or updated platform is necessary for the organization’s efficiency when mapping your ideal MarTech stack below. Are there any tools that are glaringly missing or that aren’t serving the team well?

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Visual Meeting Facilitation Workshop with David Sibbet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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How to Keep Your Board Members Involved in Your Mission

Greater Giving

Your board can do much more than approve budgetary plans and make high-level decisions about your nonprofit’s direction; in fact, board members can play a substantial role in every aspect of your organization. This means rallying not only your staff and volunteers around your nonprofit’s mission, but also your board. Let’s begin.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

VQ Strategies

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. Mapping the Change. Having an outside facilitator helps to ensure that all voices are heard and that the process keeps moving forward.