sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

With such high stakes and near-constant evolution, decision makers need to be confident on compliance basics to ensure you’re asking the right questions of your vendors and counting on them to deliver the partnership that today’s complex compliance environment requires of you. Here are 5 key questions to get you started.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Kevin Ordonez,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and I are going to explain why that’s a question everyone should be asking.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Most of the answers to today’s business questions involve technology. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. It’s not just a question of demographics. Leaders must be willing to do homework in order to be able to ask good questions.” An analog mindset won’t produce effective solutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. The only reliable pattern is that inspiration often comes from unexpected places,” shares Parker.

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EveryAction

JUNE 22, 2016

Unfortunately, there were so many questions from the audience that we weren't able answer them all during the alotted time. Here are some great, thoughtful questions that we received and Brett's email wisdom. " Would structuring an email using the 'table' tool increase its likelihood of being spammed?". BS: It depends.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? When you want to give validity and structure to ideas, put them in writing. The marketers might love to debate every question, and the membership staff might consider all that dialogue a waste of time.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. Critical Questions What is your association’s value proposition?

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. But are you asking the right questions? We will also give you seven questions to ask yourself about your questions, to make sure they are relevant, clear, respectful, and useful. Why Change Up Your Questions? Does this question reflect the mission of my organization?

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. The audience’s ability to ask questions and provide immediate feedback is a bridge to the member-centricity that we are all seeking so fervently.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

These questions should help you make sure you are recruiting people with the right skill sets who can represent experiences and voices that you may not have on your staff. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

There are endless unanswered questions about where technology, and particularly AI, will take us, our lifestyles, and our careers. Back on earth, our discussion centered on this question: How is the role of associations in society changing and is it expanding, contracting, or being completely reshaped? Yes, he worked on space lasers!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Leveraging creativity – How your persuasive message resonates with listeners (storytelling, visual aids, structure, curiosity) Honing your delivery – Your unique style, movement, personality, and ability to execute effectively. Sjodin : Great Question! Questions: So many presenters default to PowerPoint as their presentation tool.

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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. If you have more than 10 people in a meeting, having everyone introduce themselves verbally and answer an icebreaker question can take up a lot of time and can be tedious.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. You could also try posing a question, like “True or false: $50 can save a life.”. Provide a point of contact to answer any questions. Make sure it’s timely, personalized, and has a sense of urgency.

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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. It takes a confident leader to invest a larger chunk of time exploring the right question to frame the challenge.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. For example, NVAR revamped the physical space at their HQ, created a member experience team that can answer any and all member questions, and even created a digital studio to help members navigate social media, and record audio and video.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question. You probably start ticking through a familiar list of questions that help you make your culinary and nutritional decisions: Do I need coffee? And looking forwards through data modeling allows you to make predictions about the future. Data helps us make decisions.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

There is no doubt about it—students are confused, and they are questioning whether college is obtainable without financial help. Students delaying education due to financial concerns—as opposed to those taking structured gap years—are less likely to enroll or graduate later. Provide flexibility.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

There are a few important tips that you should follow when having a conversation with a prospective member; Answer questions as directly and succulently as possible. This will allow you to set-up pre-programmed responses for the most commonly asked questions. For example, you’ll be able to respond directly to any questions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Together, the data from analytics and user feedback can help inform improvements, structure, and enhancements to your redesigned website. Here’s an example of how to structure your scoping document outline: About the Organization. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you?

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Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

In nonprofit organizations, case management is a structured process that involves identifying, assessing, planning, coordinating, and monitoring services to meet the unique needs of individuals and families in need.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Meet the demand for direct and intentional forays into the heart of power structures, forces, and accepted traditions. That structure became The Belonging Rules. As you read the book, you’ll discover vital information about the five Belonging Rules : Turn into the power. Listen without labels. Choose identity over purpose.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Answering these questions will be a great way to get started making UX improvements across your website. A clearly-defined structure for your website will help to keep everything organized and make it easy to tidy up in the future. Is everything clearly labeled?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. The lack of experience and data left many CSR teams asking questions that seemed to have no answers.

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2024

It provides a structure that specifies what tools can be used, who makes those decisions, what acceptable inputs are, and how staff will interpret and apply the AI-generated outputs. It also enables us to establish a clearly defined decision-making process around using these tools, so staff know to whom to direct their questions.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” Adaptive process – building a structure to continuously evaluate and make changes to your process to address newly identified issues. One important thing to address is how to question without making others defensive.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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Volunteer Hub

APRIL 1, 2023

Listen to the full audio recording In this interview, we cover the most frequently asked questions about VolunteerHub implementation and training, as well as provide insights into what new clients can expect during the process. These questions have been answered by Matthew Murphy, our Implementation and Training Manager.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Efficiently track and organize complex membership structures and boost member engagement. No question was ever off the table. Here’s how Nimble AMS can empower your medical professionals and advance your impact in healthcare: Member management. Professional development. E-commerce.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The book is structured into 15 insightful chapters, each focusing on a unique aspect of power and influence. Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these insights with us: Question: What inspired you to write The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence ? In our rapidly changing world, adaptability and influence are key to success.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because some fee structures work better for different-sized organizations. Here’s a breakdown of the structures that work best for large and small nonprofits: Large nonprofits with more transactions: Some payment options offer lower fees for higher donation volumes, which can be helpful for larger organizations that process more gifts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Trust: A trusting environment ensures your team feels comfortable sharing their ideas and asking questions.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As you build a basic structure for your community, think through which activities the majority of your members will be interested in. There are so many possible ways to structure these forums to garner engagement. It’s key to prepare for the meeting as well, so create a list of questions and talking points to guide your discussion.

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

Compare your present performance to your past performance, and then looking for outliers to inform how you structure your communications going forward. But the reason spam bots use structures like this is because they do work and people do open them! Tip #2: Subject Lines. If you can’t, you’re probably not going to open it.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 18, 2023

Consider asking questions like: What inspired you to volunteer with our organization? Relevant questions might include: On a scale of 1-10, how satisfied are you with your volunteer experience? This evaluation can help fine-tune program structures, training methods, and task assignments.

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