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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. The goal was to create shorter assessments of specific content that could be administered over time. We focus on activities that support professional expertise over time.

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Top benefits for association leaders to connect with their volunteer members

Nimble AMS

When volunteers feel appreciated, they’re more likely to invest in your association, saving your staff precious time and resources. Why association leadership should make face time with volunteers. Volunteers save your association time and resources. Did you know that volunteers not only donate their time but their money, too?

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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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While grant funding may not require the continual stewardship efforts and nurturing of traditional donor-led funding, it often presents its own challenges: extensive reporting mandates, a list of requirements to qualify for funding, and the possibility of mission creep to meet those requirements. Learn the language and history.

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Guest Post: What Good Could Come After a No?

Twenty Hats

Present options and solutions with prices, contract requirements, options. It is during that development time when you need to speak up with your need and strategy. “ Susan has presented educational programs for local area nonprofits, statewide conferences, and national meetings. My boss keeps telling me no!” Susan holds a B.S.

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University of Michigan – Setting a Higher Standard for Giving Days

Connection Cafe

Other times, we plan. On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Advanced Planning.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques. Time Spent Filling Out the Form (<1 percent).

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Securing Corporate Sponsorships for Nonprofits: 10 Expert Tips

Neon CRM

In a corporate sponsorship, nonprofit organizations receive vital donations and the business is able to publicly align itself with the nonprofit’s mission and present its brand as generous and philanthropic. Tip #5: Don’t Rush Into It Building and maintaining sponsorships are big time and energy commitments. Easy, right?

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