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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. You can do it.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Directors must be prepared to adopt strategies and operations designed to address changing circumstances. “In it’s essential to have a strategic governance model,” she says. Associations need to move away from bureaucratic, operational structures. In this climate, the board needs to be agile and responsive.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

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The nonprofit sector, often stretched for resources and expertise, is uniquely positioned to benefit from the efficiencies and opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). This article aims to demystify the process of adopting AI for nonprofits and show some of the advantages this technology can bring.

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RAG-Enhanced Conversational AI: A Comprehensive Guide

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The introduction of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, or RAG, now allows AI applications to enhance the capabilities of machine learning models by integrating them with a retrieval component. Each type of solution has benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important to understand the landscape and map the right solution to the use case at hand.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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

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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. Could your association benefit from replacing its strategic plan with some other type of planning process? Resist the temptation to model the competition.

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#AI4Good: Artificial Intelligence & Wellbeing, Ethical Dilemmas, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . To understand the ethical dilemmas, see these scenarios.

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