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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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? Resist the temptation to model the competition. It also makes it possible to be more fearless tackling tough problems. This is a taste of how some of the most creative leaders in our industry approach problem-solving. Embrace a challenge.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Sponsorships are the model that we’re all most familiar with. With this kind of structure, there are limited sources of revenue. We were perfectly positioned to contract with experts who could solve these complex problems for our customers. Some are alliances in name only that don’t deliver real benefits to either party.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Authentic engagement.

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Leadership Impact San Diego Structure 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. As Albert Einstein espoused: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. Pick one specific problem to solve and start with a very targeted approach. They are good for handling straightforward and structured interactions and are easy to build and maintain, making them an appropriate choice for beginners or initiatives with well-defined processes.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. To avoid derailing the progress of your capital campaign efforts, consider how you can structure your meetings to foster productive collaboration, conversation, and coordination.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2024

The answer was not about how qualified BIPOC survey respondents were compared with white respondents; it was about structural barriers and lack of supports for BIPOC staff to advance to the top jobs. In other words, they should be pulled toward leadership roles by positive, affirming experiences.

Leadership 69

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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. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. It is hopeful and forward-looking. Don’t get us wrong.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

GPT and The Grey Jacket Problem At a Fundraising event in NYC, George was on a panel to talk about AI applications for fundraising and was wearing a grey sports jacket with blue pants. When you combine generic prompts with untrained AI’s and then publish it you are walking straight into a Grey Jacket Problem.

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992. My job, as the director of research, was to use the modeling results for prospecting—but also to sell them to the directors of development in the schools and colleges. Wealth screening has its own set of problems, though.

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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. As Albert Einstein espoused: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.”

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. We must not accept any technology as the default solution for our problems. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) .

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 1, 2015

There is a problem with nonprofits today. Or as Eric Weinheimer might say, there is a problem with nonprofits “non-yesterday, non-tomorrow.” The title isn’t the only problem with nonprofits though. The post [MCON 2015] The Problem With Nonprofits ‘Non-Yesterday’ appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. The report includes a set of recommendations for organizations that want to use AI to solve social good problems, tech companies, and policy makers. For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The crux of his argument is this: make sure you are working on the most important problems in your field. He explains: If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work. Let me warn you, `important problem' must be phrased carefully. Let me warn you, `important problem' must be phrased carefully.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

What are the tactics and structures one must incorporate into their nonprofit models to ensure they are doing their due diligence to collaborate and share resources with nonprofit agencies of all racial and ethnic make-ups? Implications for the nonprofit sector.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. Nutrition insecurity.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Essentially, digital disruption occurs when new technologies cause business- and industry-shaking changes at a pace and magnitude that upset the established way of doing things such interacting with each other, altering time-tested business models and, in general, just aggravating the way we think (and have always thought).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying. At one point, Mark commented that they have a "deliberately unsustainable" business model. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. Tags: business models. They're made to plod along.

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Model Business Los Angeles Museum 55

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.

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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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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. . What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms.

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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. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. It is hopeful and forward-looking. Don’t get us wrong.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

More structured consent and preference management data helps you engage your constituents in line with their own preferences. So, make sure you understand how your software is designed to help you meet these requirements. How will you help us navigate future change?

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Software Question Law Data 73

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. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. It is hopeful and forward-looking. Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems.

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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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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Here is a suggested model for how to structure your overall message: Show them what the problem is and how they can get involved. Ask them to participate and how to be part of the solution. Tell them what happened with their money and what impact it had.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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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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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We also created a risk management committee to address legal and other issues before they became problems. The governance structure of our housing program required that each of our 12 Section 811 HUD properties had to be corporations and have their own boards. Also see: What Is An Advisory Board And Should We Have One? ︎

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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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