Nonprofit work and its toll on our physical health, and what we need to do about it
Nonprofit AF
APRIL 23, 2024
Hi everyone. It’s been four years since I left being a nonprofit executive director and became “Financially Untethered” (FU), and.
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Nonprofit AF
APRIL 23, 2024
Hi everyone. It’s been four years since I left being a nonprofit executive director and became “Financially Untethered” (FU), and.
.orgSource
APRIL 8, 2024
We are quick to see it as a faceless villain itching to lay waste to our future prospects. We call that type of change innovation. We’re a community that’s designed for rule-breakers, and we help each other through the hard stuff. If we keep doing what everyone else is doing?
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NonProfit PRO
APRIL 18, 2024
What do you get when you combine more than 600 nonprofit leaders, 26 speakers and 11 sessions over the course of one amazing day? Together we’ll inspire leaders across our mission-driven organizations, as we work to solve the world's most pressing challenges. You get INSPIRED. Log-on, listen and share with others.
Association Analytics
JANUARY 29, 2024
What is membership predictive analytics? How does membership predictive analytics work? Spotlight what matters most – first, we identify what factors have the strongest correlation to membership renewal (with a robust decision tree model but we won’t hurt your head explaining that).
.orgSource
MARCH 18, 2024
“People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.” She was talking about how unprepared we were for the dramatic changes we experienced. Our lost innocence isn’t a bad thing. We now understand that on this ship nothing is nailed down and the sea is getting rough. Yes, he worked on space lasers!
.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? We wrote two books on Association 4.0 Leadership, or how to navigate fast-moving digital markets and we’ll be sharing what we learned.
.orgSource
MARCH 11, 2024
Bell’s work will play a large role in their success. Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. Our interview process is rigorous. She studies team composition.
.orgSource
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Remote work was one of those unsettling tests. When Kevin Ordonez, my business partner, and I wrote our Association 4.0 Despite the novelty, we were interviewing some of the most forward-thinking leaders in our community. We sensed their frustration at the rest of the industry’s reluctance to welcome this new concept.
.orgSource
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
How do you push the reset button and start exploring other directions? podcast interview, my colleague Al Dea, Founder Edge of Work , explained this more contemporary attitude and positioning. A board needs to be continuously sensing and receiving the signals about what’s going on in the environment.
The Fundraising Authority
DECEMBER 10, 2022
As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. Other times, we talk to our donors through newsletters, e-mails and snail mail letters. No matter how we are carrying on the conversation, a dialog like this without stories becomes stale and ultimately boring.
The MatrixFiles
JANUARY 2, 2024
What about our websites? Shouldn’t we have resolutions for making our websites, email, and social media accounts better? What Are Your Website Regrets? Getting back to your website, what are your regrets about your website from the last year? Here is what I hear from clients.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 19, 2023
What do you do to get started? Lean startup”, “bootstrapped startup”, “pre-seed startup”… Silicon Valley uses these terms all the time, but what is the nonprofit equivalent? How do you decide which of these options is right for you and your idea?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 20, 2023
There’s a lot going on in the world (we’re looking at you, recession worries and existential dread), and fundraising efforts that have worked in the past may not be delivering the same results. What do you do to continue to support your organization in its efforts to make a difference in your community and in the world?
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 23, 2023
Those thoughts are also a source of existential dread, even for people working at a tech company like Eventgroove! As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. Our marketing team could fit in a MINI Cooper. Until I tried it. Yes and no.
Candid
MARCH 14, 2024
Unless you work for an animal shelter with cute puppies or a museum with extensive collections you can photograph as needed, it can be a challenge. At Candid, we don’t have cute animals, we don’t have historical collections, and we can’t even capture the work that we do because it’s primarily digital.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 31, 2020
What would you do differently? We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. Here’s what they told us: 1. Many nonprofit organizations have made the transition to working remotely due to COVID-19 health concerns.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 17, 2023
In our current digital landscape, having a strong social media presence is essential for nonprofit organizations. In this post, we’ll explore three cost-effective strategies to boost your online visibility. Invest in creating visually appealing graphics and videos that showcase your work.
sgEngage
APRIL 17, 2024
We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it.
Candid
APRIL 1, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is radically changing the way organizations work. From programs that make complex data-based decisions to applications that transcribe spoken words into text, AI offers new opportunities to do things more creatively and efficiently. But as with any tool, we need to agree as an organization on how we use it.
Charity Village
MARCH 7, 2024
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” ” – Ryunosuke Satoro Bringing people together to learn, grow, and collaborate to find creative solutions to complex problems is a core part of what we do at Vantage Point.
Bloomerang
APRIL 5, 2024
Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., CFRE, our very own Fundraising Coach , also known as Charity Clairity. What should I do? Before committing to a plan to celebrate your “milestone,” ask yourself what you hope to achieve. We don’t have a big enough email list.
Nimble AMS
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Why do medical associations choose Nimble AMS? What are the top example s of medical associations that leverage Nimble AMS? Learn how Nimble AMS can advance your mission and support your medical professionals: Do you want to reduce redundancies, simplify processes, and improve the staff and member experience with a report dashboard?
Candid
DECEMBER 14, 2023
There’s a sentence that every communications professional at a nonprofit has heard (and if you’re like me, dreads): “We need a toolkit for that launch.” Why it doesn’t work In nonprofits, marketing, communications, and fundraising functions often overlap. What were we doing wrong?
Candid
JANUARY 10, 2024
Anyone who works in the nonprofit sector knows it’s not for the faint of heart. The burgeoning field of positive psychology suggests that humans have a default “negativity bias”—we disproportionately pay attention to and remember what goes wrong. This negativity bias is adaptive, as remembering what hurts us keeps us alive.
Candid
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. We’ll also share our vision for the future of grant reporting in the sector. A look at the grant reporting process Each year, Candid is required to submit approximately 100 grant reports to our funders.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership. You’re laughing, but we mean it. )
Candid
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
It’s a lot of due diligence and compliance work to handle. At Candid, we can relate. We’ve had our own share of nonprofit compliance undertakings over the years. In 2023, Candid completed our first external SOC 2 audit, a collaborative effort across our administrative teams.
M+R
MARCH 14, 2024
Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. We’re going to look at two very different Giving Days to show what works!
Nimble AMS
APRIL 11, 2024
Read our blog for seven tips to use your online member community to enhance your volunteer program! Don’t miss our webinar on April 17: Transform your volunteer program with trailblazing technology. Consider asking your member volunteers the following questions: What motivates them to serve? Register now.
Bloomerang
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. What does it have to do with fundraising and nonprofits? Actually, it has to do with everything. And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit.
Candid
APRIL 22, 2024
We often talk about the role of philanthropy and the ways in which it must grow and innovate, how it has changed and evolved with the times, reacting to crises, wars, economic downturns, and more. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Foundation.
Forum One
JANUARY 17, 2024
As we step into 2024, I know that our mission-driven partners are trying to achieve big goals while navigating an ever-shifting digital landscape. Here’s what we’re seeing as the biggest priorities for our partners across the nonprofit and government space to address this year. Focus on trust We live in fractious times.
Candid
SEPTEMBER 7, 2023
Today, we are celebrating our first anniversary of short-form video on TikTok , Instagram Reels , and YouTube Shorts. What began as a three-month experiment has now blossomed into a consistent social media video production program. But they also bring attention to our entire social platform’s content.
Bloomerang
APRIL 1, 2024
When it comes to working with boards, things can get confusing, making it hard for everyone to work together. ” Truth 1: Embracing efficiency in board engagement Some people think that having too many rules and plans makes our board feel too much like a business. .” There is no in between.”
Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. The Performance Paradox is the counterintuitive phenomenon that if we want to improve our performance, we have to do something other than just perform,” explains Briceño. “No
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 10, 2024
In Paul Falcone ’s book, 75 Ways For Managers To Hire, Develop And Keep Great Employees , he recommends asking new employees the following questions 30, 60 and 90 days after they were hired: 30-Day One-on-One Follow-Up Questions Why do you think we selected you as an employee? What do you like about the job and the organization so far?
Blue Avocado
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
In my four decades as a senior fundraising executive, part-time consultant, and nonprofit CEO, I have worked with (or served on) 20 nonprofit boards. 1 Throughout my time working with nonprofit boards, I’ve found that dysfunction often starts with lack of accountability in terms of recruiting and onboarding of new members.
Bloomerang
APRIL 15, 2024
What does it take to be successful in fundraising? We simply aren’t going to be successful if donors don’t have faith in us. They must have full confidence that we and the organizations we serve are going to do what we say we’re going to do and fulfill their philanthropic intent.
Qgiv
JANUARY 10, 2024
Over the years, our fundraising technology has grown to include a full suite of event and online giving tools—supporting thousands of changemakers just like you. Today, I’m excited to announce the next step in our growth as a company—joining Bloomerang !
sgEngage
JANUARY 10, 2024
With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. It is all around us whether we seek it out or not. Information is everything that is coming at us.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. The five EI skills are: Build self-awareness to identify what makes you vulnerable to burnout.
Candid
DECEMBER 19, 2023
It also offers a glimpse into what was top of mind for Google’s online community that year. As 2023 concludes, we’ve put our twist on this yearly tradition. To celebrate you, our amazing community of readers, we look back at the Candid blogs that resonated the most with you this year. The 990s are here.
Media Cause
APRIL 15, 2024
This blog is the third in our series on MarTech for nonprofits. If you want a refresher on what MarTech is, check out the first blog here. A few questions to consider include: How do we organize information about our donors, volunteers, members, and constituents? Do we have an online platform to collect donations?
Nimble AMS
AUGUST 23, 2023
Nimble AMS is proud to share our partnership with RSM ! Our Nimble AMS team has worked with RSM for several years, resulting in a powerhouse collaboration, offering innovative solutions to empower associations. What was the original goal of forming our partnership? What attracts RSM to Nimble AMS and Salesforce?
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