.orgSource

JULY 29, 2023

As long as you plan for missteps before they happen and are psychologically strong enough to stick to the process that you’ve outlined, you will survive. If you sense a problem brewing, you may already be knee-deep in a hot mess. While naming the problem may be extremely unpleasant, clarity is the beginning of a solution.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2024

Today’s question comes from a development director who wants advice on how to enact board term limits: Dear Charity Clairity, We don’t have term limits for our board and, as the development director, I think this is becoming a problem. Often the candidate will have an initial interview with whoever knows them best (e.g.,

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. What problems are we trying to solve? In addition, our user experience team conducts extensive research—surveys, interviews, usability tests, and data analysis on specific areas where we know there is a need.

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 6, 2017

But what most nonprofits don’t realize is that the problem may lie in how your candidates are interviewed. In my experience, one simple simple change to that process may dramatically improve volunteer retention.

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Retention Interview Volunteer Problem 74

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Is a process or culture change also needed for the solution to work?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Streamline event registration and ticketing processes with an AI-powered chatbot. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. In other words, you need a bot of your own.

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Las Vegas Language Interaction Associations 221

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. Could your association benefit from replacing its strategic plan with some other type of planning process? It also makes it possible to be more fearless tackling tough problems. Evolve as your industry changes.

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Advice Course Associations Change 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ?

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Lifelong learners, problem-solvers, innovators, and creative thinkers don’t want to work in an intellectual vacuum. When.orgSource engages with a client, we frequently interview the staff. Is every team comfortable with the budgeting process and how it impacts the association? This should not be a top-down activity.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. 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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Now that you’ve prepared for your search, it’s time to dive into the search and selection process. Did any limitations come to light during this part of the process? With a little luck, casting the net wide will get you a bigger pool of candidates than you can reasonably interview. The interview. Narrowing the field.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. They work together to make the leap from ideas to processes. Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books.

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Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. When Kevin Ordonez, my business partner, and I wrote our Association 4.0 books , a home office was still a glimmer in every busy parent’s eyes.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

When you are preparing for your annual nonprofit financial audit, you need to understand and identify the risks that could affect your organization so you can address and mitigate potential problems. Once risks are identified and prioritized, set procedures and processes to address them, and document those processes.

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International Nonprofit Review Process 87

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This means that we help them to transform their business — not only digitally, but using a human-centered approach that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of a problem-solving process. Anna-Sophie Oertzen. Innovation Consulting Manager, Salesforce Ignite EMEA. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

It can take several months to a full year to complete each step of the startup process, which we’ll cover in the next section. Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Initially, we conducted listening sessions and interviews with nonprofits and philanthropic institutions to learn about some of the best and worst practices in grantmaking to grassroots organizations, ensuring that we gathered a range of perspectives. With an open call, we eliminate the need to be part of the “in” crowd to receive funding.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We call this process of information-gathering the “discovery” phase. Conduct stakeholder interviews, run focus groups, send out supporter surveys, and look for patterns in your comments on social media, or comments on news articles related to your issue area. Frankly, people don’t want any more problems.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

This is particularly important when it comes to your online donation process, where lengthy forms and poorly designed interfaces can lead to page abandonment—the phenomenon where donors begin to fill out your donation form, but give up before they finish and click the ‘submit’ button. In the era of virtual fundraising, content is king.

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Virtual Site Support Fundraising 190

Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

While it’s good to collect input, this can be a problem. Efforts need to be coordinated across the organization so that data informs your decision-making process, whether it is deciding on a meeting venue or supporting your strategic plan. What problem are we trying to solve? What question are we trying to answer?

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Survey Data Analytics Associations 130

Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

Here are a couple of ways we have used service blueprinting for clients across sectors and industries to solve their problems. We conducted interviews with internal stakeholders—anyone who had a hand in content development, from ideation to pressing publish in their website CMS. Get in touch!

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Map Service Design Digital 72

Forum One

AUGUST 19, 2021

How can you best put yourself in their shoes, gain insights from that process, and move forward to create an even better tool or experience? Closed-ended question surveys can be combined with interviews to gather both quantitative and qualitative data.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2023

Some activities we like to do with our clients include stakeholder interviews and workshops, preliminary service blueprints, and an ecosystem map. This is where we expand on the stated problem or opportunity and work to better understand the people involved in the service delivery process. So how do you get started?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

If you want to learn how to more effectively embrace change, read Build For Tomorrow , by Jason Feifer , Editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the podcasts Build For Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. “My Within the New Normal phase , lead the charge to change. And, finally, in the Wouldn’t Go Back phase , seize new opportunities.

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Change Phase Demonstration Podcast 57

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 27, 2021

Supporting individuals with autism in the workplace starts with your recruitment and hiring process: Look for competency instead of “culture fit”. Autistic employees might also need longer to learn a new task, or they may require support to process and break down information. 3) Be Proactive in Your Support.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Leave nothing ambiguous.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2012

The recently launched Laura and John Arnold Foundation Giving Library is a unique resource that provides this information about nonprofits through engaging video interviews. The Arnolds had the resources to arrange for such meetings, but they realized that this process wasn’t practical for many funders and nonprofits.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Years ago, I worked on a project where I was hired to interview about 75 different foundations in one state. Somewhere in the interview, they said, “We are unique.”. As we re-evaluate our processes after more than two years of upheaval, look at how you incorporated collaboration with other grantmakers and your community.

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Collaboration Foundation Test Skills 83

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Today brings the new book, Build For Tomorrow , by Jason Feifer , Editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the podcasts Build For Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. “My By reading the book, you’ll learn in great detail how to accelerate the change process—lessen your panic, adapt faster, define the new normal, and thrive going forward.

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Change Phase Action Demonstration 81

Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

The problem is that DEIAB work is hard, and boards that seek to embrace these principles will likely face some resistance along the way. This typically involves an assessment of the organization’s culture, which includes interviewing people, conducting surveys, and reviewing policies and collateral.

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Policy Reflection Culture Training 52

Candid

MAY 5, 2021

However, finding the right employees is a multi-step process and can sometimes lead your nonprofit to the wrong answer. While any loss of able employees is a tragedy, this does mean that if your nonprofit is hiring, there is a significant pool of qualified candidates to interview. Effective internal management and organization.

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Strategy Nonprofit Skills Environment 117

Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, we should capture all of our tasks and ideas in a system, and then process them at a later time. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought. In GTD, the 2-minute rule is applied during the “processing” stage.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 12, 2022

This is a simple problem to fix as it’s about swapping words. This is probably the hardest part of the process and it’s what will help you identify a key message for your story so it’s worth spending time on. Another way you can do this activity and get your creative juices flowing is to interview yourself!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. A Crash Course in Translating Your Meeting Process to a Virtual Setting. Creating Connection in a Time of Covid-19 – interview with Nancy White. Embrace new workplace norms for meetings. List of Energizers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Ng’s interviews included asking these questions: What are the most common mistakes people make at work? Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52