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Four tips to make your annual report member-centric

Nimble AMS

When you adopt an innovative AMS, staff won’t have to learn a difficult code to build member reports or dashboards. Easily create a year in review summar y , donation letters, thank you messages, and more to help staff streamline your annual reporting process. What is your membership retention rate? .

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

To build trust and prioritize community voices, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Community Fund adopted a participatory grantmaking practice in 2021 and 2022. It also examines the findings from its comprehensive assessment of New York City’s nonprofits’ leadership demographics.

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3 Principles Fundraisers Should Adopt from Service Providers

Connection Cafe

Fundraisers may find additional success by adopting the following professional service principles. When I worked with entrepreneurs, I loved being able to sit with my clients, review the stack of projects they initially hired me to complete, and start thinking creatively about how to make their business visions real.

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Seven tips to survey staff at your association and improve employee engagement

Nimble AMS

Consider adopting similar benefits at your organization to best support your staff. When you use pulsing surveys, you’ll have limited data, but it’s also easy to compile and review results. When selecting a focus group try to pick a demographically diverse and representative group of employees.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values. Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent). Staff Demographics (Age, Ethnicity, Gender, Immigration Status). Want to see more? Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

sgEngage

Yet, at most foundations, rarely does anyone with a communications background ever review the story this critical document shares with the outside world. Demographics data—what do grant recipient and grant descriptions reveal about who benefits from the foundation’s grants? Information about the people leading the foundation.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. Is your community largely tech-savvy early adopters? So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology.