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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. Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” ABMS studied the literature.

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Colleges & Universities Choose Salesforce to Accelerate Advancement ROI

Saleforce Nonprofit

In the most financially challenging time in the history of higher education, proving the value of your technology investments is more important than ever before. A recent study by Forrester found that higher ed institutions using Salesforce “improved relationships with alumni and enabled record-breaking fundraising,” saved $2.4

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4 Reasons Why Hybrid Fundraising Events Are Here To Stay (And Why That’s A Good Thing)

Kindful

While few are missing the stress of hoping the caterer brings the right appetizers, the right video plays at the right time, and the board chair stays within their allotted speech length, losing a big chunk of expected revenue due to a cancelled or postponed event brought about a different kind of stress.

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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. Time Spent Filling Out the Form (<1 percent). Total Number of Part-Time Workers. Total Number of Full-Time Workers. Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We reflected. We adapted.

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Research Friday: Senior Arizona volunteers -- how do they stack up against the rest of the nation?

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Over 3,500 households in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan were asked about their giving and volunteer behavior.

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BIGGER! BETTER! FASTER! CHEAPER!

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. These studies are certainly not bigger or better, but they are cheaper and faster! Executive Director. ASU Lodestar Center. There are many.

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What is Slacktivism and is it Even Helping?

NonProfit Hub

Slacktivism typically means taking to social media and encompasses things like retweeting words of hope after a national disaster or liking a charity’s Facebook page—as the study implies—but can also include non-digital actions like wearing a ribbon on your shirt to bring awareness. Slacktivism in the real world. Lack of skin in the game.

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