ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. Julia Fabris McBride and Ed O'Malley Earlier this year, the authors shared these insights: Question : Why did you decide to write the book? Don’t get us wrong.

Leadership 86

Leadership Kansas Authoring Chapter 86

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. Always developing a meeting agenda, sharing it with attendees beforehand, and explicitly asking them to review it and note any questions or comments.

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Campaign Structure Phase Review 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. It takes a confident leader to invest a larger chunk of time exploring the right question to frame the challenge.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Candid

MARCH 11, 2024

BIPOC staff are more likely to aspire to lead than white staff When we began surveying the nonprofit sector about issues of race and leadership in 2016, our primary question was: “Why are there so few leaders of color in the nonprofit sector?” In other words, they should be pulled toward leadership roles by positive, affirming experiences.

Leadership 69

Leadership Survey Nonprofit Roles 69

Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

But by using modern computer processors to perform these calculations at high volumes, data scientists can create models capable of solving complex problems. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? Many AI models take a series of input data points and use them to predict aspects of new data points.

Learning 69

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Learning, we do naturally. Data is a decision.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Therefore, nonprofits must have a crisp understanding of the problem they solve and how they solve it. Model Behavior.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

Working in a white-led nonprofit agency that serves seniors has led me to question what efforts can be taken to improve our outreach to diverse neighborhoods, and I have been connecting with others in my community to inquire what they are doing to intentionally engage with members of minority communities.

Community 52

Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. Julia Fabris McBride and Ed O'Malley Today, the authors share these insights with us: Question : Why did you decide to write the book? Don’t get us wrong.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In 1986, Hamming made an incredible speech, "You and Your Research," about the question of what makes some scientists achieve great things and others, not so much. The crux of his argument is this: make sure you are working on the most important problems in your field. Let me warn you, `important problem' must be phrased carefully.

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Problem Museum Baltimore Culture 53

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. Julia Fabris McBride and Ed O'Malley Today, the authors share these insights with us: Question : Why did you decide to write the book? Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But the more I heard them explain it, the more I started thinking about how the current design “table” is a big problem in and of itself. . But as we learn these rules, we often forget to question where and how those rules were created in the first place. What were structures in places at the time? . But At What Cost?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you company is experiencing a constant or newly presented problem, a change will need to be made. Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change.

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Change Management Change Management Phase 106

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And this is a problem. In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. Yet most people don’t understand exactly what the Board’s job is. It’s surprising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. Which ‘models’ work under which conditions, in which industries or places?

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Association CIOs: Ask yourself these six important questions before building your own AMS. After all, if a problem has been solved in a commercial product, why try to solve it again? So, before tackling your own AMS, ask yourself these six critically important questions: Do you have the resources? Read on to find out why.

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Associations Software Build Platform 78

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We also created a risk management committee to address legal and other issues before they became problems. The Bottom Line The CEO should always ask the question: Do the board and its members add value or just get in the way? Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Lesson Effective Create Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Way back in 2009, when I first Peter and Madeline, we brainstormed some questions about the strategic use of social media to build a network. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Resources: What is the network’s funding model? Generative Social-Impact Network.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

What a consultant does Those new to nonprofit consulting sometimes assume that consultants start an engagement by pinpointing problems, rather than the nonprofit presenting specific areas in need of improvement to the consultant. Internal management consultants help nonprofits develop their organizational structure.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

Story 52

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

There are a few accepted models for content strategy. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team. The Structure quadrant answers how content will be organized to be findable, categorized, and personalized. The truth is, universities have a real inertia problem.

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Education Content Strategy Texas 44

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Create a written plan.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It often includes powerful and well-connected people, and you’ll want to make sure that the meetings are well-planned and structured. These are common problems. Lead Gift Committee Meetings — A Simple Model. Then ask the following questions (not necessarily in this order): Who knows this person?

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Achieve

JUNE 8, 2023

Here’s another problem you may encounter: Let’s say you can clearly define what you want to do with your campaign and why, so you jump into the planning process, skipping key steps like a feasibility study and prospect research and cultivation. Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance.

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Campaign Phase Gift Studies 52

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French early nineteenth century political thinker and scholar known for his book Democracy in America , often pondered questions of societal well-being, or social policy. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB). Innovations are needed to solve community problems. Alexis de Tocqueville.

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Impact Research Tools Social 80

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. .

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. The questions and problems are generated exactly from the needs of the participants – what do they need to do?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Some of the findings in this year’s survey included the importance of having leaders with digital experience, the connection between well-structured teams and outcomes, the challenges in restructuring digital teams, and the gap between the value organizations place on supporter engagement and how they are prioritizing managing and tracking it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. I was lucky enough to have a number of exchanges with them about self-directed and peer learning models in the nonprofit sector as part of their research process and are referenced in the report.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2011

The models, theories, and approaches to leadership that have been espoused over the past 100 years have steadily lost effectiveness around the globe. They should ask questions and listen all the way to the end of what others have to say. I'm not talking about a collective approach, or some other social structure for leadership.

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Leadership Arizona Americorp Create 96

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We try to solve problems and often look for the most parsimonious solution. We whip out our logic model. I loved how she brought up so many issues, often combining structural issues with the related effects. Our whole society has moved to a transactional model where previews are the expectation. We’ve all been there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

I heard my colleagues asking questions about the changes that would have to happen in their organizations for them to be able to truly embrace a new way of being – a way that embraced network philosophy. This is an example of how a network model of doing business reclaims that which was wasted. I wasn’t the only one.

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Jordan Massachusetts Structure Leadership 90

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 25, 2012

But a structural problem remains: philanthropy does not typically have available capital for scaling. The investors assume the risk that the nonprofit organization will meet the benchmarks and alleviate the social problem. The Model: The “non–nonprofit” organization: Twin Cities Rise! was paid $9,000.00

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Research Minnesota San Francisco Work 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 48