sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Here are some best practices for effectively managing staff turnover and onboarding with your grantmaking software, including some methods of reassigning existing records to new staff members, establishing clear security roles, and building a comprehensive policies and procedures guide to keep everyone on the same page.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

This may involve conducting equity audits , adopting anti-racist policies and practices, and actively working to dismantle barriers to access and opportunity. Be Proactive in Legal Advocacy: Engage in legal advocacy efforts to challenge discriminatory laws and policies that hinder progress toward equity.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Solicit their knowledge to help you identify gaps in the work you are doing and strategize how to fill them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The article reinforces the message we’ve shared for years that these tools can benefit nonprofits in many ways, especially small nonprofits. What if the fundraiser is fully prepared and knowledgeable about the implications of smart tech creator tools and uses the tool to generate a first draft letter to a donor.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2022

In 2019, Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy and Equity in the Center to advance the field’s knowledge by asking nonprofits about specific practices that build a culture of racial equity and inclusion within their organization. in the assessment of a nonprofit’s policies and practices. . How does it work? .

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

The fundraising team for the Grand Canyon Conservancy uses artificial intelligence and data analysis embedded in its fundraising software to make predictions, set goals, and share progress with stakeholders. Sharing this information publicly provides access to both internal and external constituents. Your goal is transparency.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Collective leadership is a collaborative approach that embraces shared decision-making, participation, and the collective wisdom of diverse perspectives.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2024

For instance, when boards overly prioritize routine tasks like policy development and operational management, they risk missing opportunities for innovation and could fail to address emerging challenges with a holistic perspective. The key to successful evaluation lies in making a commitment to the process and sharing the findings openly.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Fast forward to today, and PEAK is now in the season of its fifth principle: Learn, Share, Evolve. These three simple words each pack their own challenge for a sector that often fails to prioritize learning, where knowledge hoarding is pervasive, and where the pace of change can feel extremely slow. Evolution is an ongoing practice.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

Another collaborative may monitor the mission-aligned metrics, financial stability, implementation of evidence-based practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion policies of grantees to assess whether it is supporting the organizations most likely to realize the impact it seeks. Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 21, 2022

SHRM is the intentional application of formalized policies and practices that create organizational successes by investing in the human capital of employees. A group of this type creates opportunities for growth in SHRM formalizations through peer-reviews and collaborations on policies, employee handbooks and hiring practices.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Share urgent calls to action across channels. Check out our last installment here !

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Kettl share compelling and instructive stories about some of today’s most successful bridgebuilders—federal state, and local government leaders who transcend boundaries and partner across sectors, to achieve success and meet their goals. Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Eggers and Donald F. Make boundaries flexible.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Discover the four steps Race Forward recommends for developing racial equity policies, practices, and cultures and use their toolkit’s resources to help you put them in place at your organization. Advancing Racial Equity in Maternal-Child Health and Addressing Disparities through a Reproductive and Birth Justice Lens , by W.K.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2023

Successful board members also make an effort to be well-informed about the organization’s mission, services, policies, and programs. They continuously seek knowledge about the nonprofit’s work and stay updated on developments in the relevant fields.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. We define success, we decide what to measure, we collect the information, we own the data, and we don’t share the learning from the process. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

What Goes into Successful Planned Giving Programs While planned giving programs offer a valuable option for every nonprofit organization, they do come with their fair share of administrative and social demands. Transparent Policies: Nonprofits should always be versed in any relevant fundraising policies.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2014

It’s been well over a year since Yahoo’s controversial non-telecommuting policy, which created a firestorm of reaction. The service allows us to conduct meetings either by phone or if we want to share documents to share them over the web via the ReadyTalk website. Telework Policies. The Media Frenzy.

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve been to NTC, you know that it can be an incredible event full of knowledgeable nonprofit techies. As Lyndal Cairns, a 2012 NTC Scholarship recipient, shares: Before I went to NTC, I was the only social media manager working in the HIV sector in Australia.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Share the videos with advocates to bring them close to the lawmaking process.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Similar to visualizations, AI can help uncover key connections in your organizational data and isolate them for further analysis by knowledgeable humans. The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington has developed a practice and guidance around writing data statements ( [link] ). Where might they fail in your specific context?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Do any nonprofits have a formal blogging policy?

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Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

years from the first onset of symptoms ( Forbes ), and looking back with my newfound knowledge of endometriosis symptoms, I was most likely experiencing symptoms as far as 3-4 years ago. . BBC Article “ Endometriosis: Thousands share devastating impact of condition ”. The average diagnosis time frame is 7.5

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NTEN

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve been to NTC, you know that it can be an incredible event full of knowledgeable nonprofit techies. As Lyndal Cairns, a 2012 NTC Scholarship recipient, shares: Before I went to NTC, I was the only social media manager working in the HIV sector in Australia.

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NTC Donation Share Australia 60

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

A volunteer’s significance goes far beyond just saving nonprofits money in wages; they bring experience, knowledge, and lots of passion. Share the love. Building this culture requires leadership with the knowledge, experience, and ability to look into the future of the organization. Put volunteers in charge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Unfortunately, organizational memory is short, and without a way to capture knowledge and learning, they become lost. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In particular, they should focus on equipping women with the skills and knowledge they need to actively participate in the green economy, work for climate action, and prepare for emergencies. World Wildlife Fund. World leaders vowed to halt deforestation. Take steps to get involved through 1T.org. About the Author. Devi Thomas.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Tip 1: If you have an operating reserve, review your policy. Update the policy based on your current and future needs.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

The Zero to Three Policy Center, an organization is an independent, non-partisan research-based voice that educates the public and political leaders about the unique developmental needs of babies and toddlers. ” We partnered with the Urban Institute’s Center on Education and Policy to reinvision their Education Data Explorer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With a growing interest in the “AI4Good” field, Google is sharing this information to help strengthen the ecosystem of people and organizations hoping to solve some our most pressing social challenges with AI. . Many organizations are working on similar projects and could benefit from shared resources. .

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

In some cases, we’ve made these changes in response to specific requests from funders that have shared grants data with us. Sharing data inevitably carries risks, but not all risks are equal. Have Cybersecurity Policies and Practices in Place. Are staff familiar with our policies? Define the Nature of the Risk Involved.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We are excited to share that Forum One has been selected for 7 Davey Awards for our excellence in web design! The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Do you know the one thing that nearly every foundation representative shared? By infusing our social impact work with empathy and experimentation, grantmakers can create a stronger shared value in our collaborative work. These included all types of foundations, large to small, family-run, disease-related, corporate-operated.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. In the absence of knowledge of what the right thing is, your Board is probably swinging in the dark because they truly don’t know what is expected of them. Solution: Redirect.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I have multiple paragons to look up to and follow – in the amazing way they think and the knowledge they’ve gathered over the years. We truly have such a fun and intelligent group of people that are always willing to share their knowledge and help one another out. Share the Love! Sanchi’s background. Amy’s Background.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I put out a query for examples of blogging and social network/media policies for nonprofits and got lots of good examples. Donny Peterson couldn't resist the urge to edit someone else's blogging policy before sharing a copy his policy. That got me thinking about the process for developing the policy.

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