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How to Interview Strong for a Fundraising Job

Top Nonprofits

CFRE, as our guest for a webinar entitled: “How to Interview Strong” or “How Interviewing is Like Asking for a Major Gift”. Since impressing an interviewer – and getting to “yes” — is similar to impressing a major donor prospect, you’ll also come away with an understanding of the keys to effective major gift fundraising.

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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

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For a change, Leah Monica, Director of Marketing at Matrix Group, interviewed me about my personal journey and the journey of Matrix Group. Once a month, I’ll be interviewing association CEOs on our Associations Thrive podcast about how their profession or industry is changing, and how their associations are adapting to these changes.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. AI-powered chatbots, like ChatGPT and Bard, use artificial intelligence and natural language processing to generate human-like responses. In other words, you need a bot of your own. Others are more complex.

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How to Approach a Nonprofit Job Interview with a For-Profit Attitude (and Résumé)

EveryAction

As someone who has jumped from the corporate world to the nonprofit sector and back again, I’ve learned a lot about the nuances of both, especially in terms of the all-important first interview. No matter the reason, if you want to work at a nonprofit, it’s important to be able to sell yourself in an interview.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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For example, the answer to the question “Tell me about a project that you’re proud of” usually gets more weight in a job interview than the response to “Describe what you like best and least about your most recent position.” We tend to focus more on what employees do than on how or why they do it. Of course, it’s important to consider skills.

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What Are You Really Asking? A Checklist for Grantmakers

sgEngage

Look for ways to simplify your language and your structure to make your question easier to read and answer. Would this question be better asked in a follow-up interview or post-award communication? For some changes, you may need to communicate them to your community and explain the rationale behind them.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. With limited access to body language, tone, and context, precise communication becomes an essential skill. When Kevin Ordonez, my business partner, and I wrote our Association 4.0

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