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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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In a digital market moving at the speed of a video game, recruiting the right staff is a make-or-break activity. I was eager to hear Sue’s ideas about the importance of focusing the board on qualities like empathy, self-knowledge, and strong social skills to build a productive environment.

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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

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Can your team take advantage of the new breed of knowledge management tools? The knowledge and experience its people bring will determine its institutional knowledge and dictate the direction in which it needs to head. This knowledge is ever-changing and needs to be both accessible and adaptable. Explicit knowledge.

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Nonprofit Board Dynamics: A Guide for Executive Directors

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You can tap into this diversity to create a collaborative environment. Once onboard, equip them with the knowledge and tools they need through a comprehensive onboarding process, ensuring they’re ready to hit the ground running. Assign roles that play to each member’s strengths and facilitate open, continuous communication.

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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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Success belongs to organizations that adapt to a shifting environment. Does your governance structure help or hinder your progress towards goals? What activities would make your association better prepared to respond to changes in your members’ needs and the business environment? Business is Darwinian.

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Why It Pays Off to Hire A Professional Benefit Auctioneer

Greater Giving

One of the greatest misconceptions about professional benefit auctioneers is that all of them suited for the nonprofit fundraising environment. Thanks to years of experience, benefit auctioneers can help you structure your event program for the best flow. Add Auction Games and Audience Activities.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . As she and others have written about, decision-making within these various structures can also be built in a variety of ways, from consensus to voting.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.