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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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In grant proposals and pitches, they want you to predict the future and show how, with your eloquent promises and plans for impact, you can best provide them the assurance of certainty. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Develops new programming Writing proposals introduces the opportunity for new or enhanced programming.

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3 Ways to Activate DEI in Your Nonprofit Organization

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This skill can be actively honed and developed in three parts: A model to give feedback on how they are impacted by behaviors, the clarity to ask for the change in behavior they need to see, and the capacity to hear and receive feedback as a gift and not an indictment. Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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How can nonprofits adopt social enterprise strategies to create sustainable revenue streams?

ASU Lodestar Center

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Why pursue a social enterprise model?

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Tips for Adopting a Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

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Despite its best intentions, traditional philanthropy has inhibited its grantee relationships by perpetuating structures and practices that treat grantees as supplicants rather than partners. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.