Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Take your information-gathering process a step further by surveying members or forming a focus group. Setting a vision, obtainable goals, and KPIs for your data is a lengthy process. Consider adopting data literacy and training goals to empower all staff to be responsible for analytics integrity. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Rather than opt-in re-enrollment, where all parents/guardians must sign new contracts to enroll their children each school year, continuous enrollment is an opt-out process that higher education institutions have used for decades. Admissions had to create a new process to keep track of student withdrawals during the withdrawal period.

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Student Policy Retention Education 79

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

have successfully adopted social enterprise strategies to diversify their revenue portfolios and create sustainable revenue streams, such as the YMCA and Goodwill Industries. There are many ways to start a business and it could be a lengthy process for nonprofits depending on the resources available to them to begin a venture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. It asks you 12 questions mostly having to do with control and then spits out the biolerplate for your policy. Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. How did you educate people?

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

To build trust and prioritize community voices, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Community Fund adopted a participatory grantmaking practice in 2021 and 2022. This case study illustrates the outcomes they achieved by directly engaging community members in their grant funding decision-making process.

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Resource Mississippi Participatory New York 112

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

It is not often that public policy intended for the publicly traded-corporate world directly impacts the nonprofit corporate world. So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Conflict of interest policy. As part of a.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2021

Manual, paper-based processes can work if only one or two people are managing a limited number of routine expenses. Eventually, these processes will require more human labor and additional operational costs. A n automated expense management program allows you to: Establish a smooth expense submission process.

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Software Management Policy Track 99

Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. You also need a targeted recruiting process, an onboarding process, an orientation, volunteer management practices, and volunteer recognition. Is there a media release?

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Volunteer Create Policy Roles 119

sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The most effective schools make the process easy and convenient for families by accepting payments via checks or money order, secure mobile-friendly online portal, automatic bank withdrawals (ACH), online banking services, cash, debit cards, and credit cards. How a school takes payments also significantly impacts timeliness. Engaging quickly.

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Time Blackbaud Policy Structure 89

Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Adopt a culture that values feedback. Adopt a culture that supports flexibility. Adopt a culture that values training. Inviting creativity.

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Change Management Culture Change Management 76

AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

When evaluating an organization’s SOC 2 compliance, auditors identify how a business manages customer data according to each of the following five trust service principles: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. What SOC 2 Means for Accelevents’ Customers?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Nonprofit organizations are beginning to use indirect costs more frequently in their budgeting processes, whether or not they are pursuing government grants. Your bookkeeper likely does not want to spend time determining whether management or programs purchased paperclips, so creating a policy of categorizing expenses is helpful.

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Rate Question Government Fund 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . Departments do not work in silos, systems, policies, and work processes support this. I think it is culture.

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Social Media Adopt Media Social 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. Internet Use Policy.

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Social Media Policy Media Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

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. Priority should be given to retaining and emphasizing human characteristics in decision making processes and evaluations. .

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Homeless Research Global System 163

Forum One

APRIL 6, 2023

There are lots of different pieces that go into the whole process, from engaging with services, digital tools, people, and places. These are all the systems, policies, and structures that influence the customer journey. We’re talking about coordinating people, infrastructure, and processes. The post What is Service Design?

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Design Service FAQ Interaction 79

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Discover how to implement flexible applications to expand the pool of potential recipients while leveraging Award Management to enhance your scholarship agreement process. We aim to streamline student applications and enable simpler awarding through AutoMatch. Putting the AI in Education Graham Getty, St.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Strengthen Your Organization’s Internal Controls Internal controls are policies and procedures that nonprofits put in place to help avoid risky situations. This process helps catch any errors in payments before they’re submitted and ensures no one person at your organization is held responsible if any mistakes fall through the cracks.

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Management Strategy International Nonprofit 73

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit. That’s why I always tell my clients to put their plans, policies, and procedures in writing. How might you more fully adopt writing as a learning strategy for yourself? Or “Breathe.”

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Learning Change Strategy Journal 95

Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York. These acts mimic the standard set by the European Union with GDPR and many of the policies will sound familiar. The New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Security act and the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Law Digital Guide New York 52

Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

It is an important factor to consider when looking at not only designing a RAG-based conversational AI, but also when designing organizational AI policy in general. This includes setting up feedback loops from user interactions and vetting and testing models with internal stakeholders before wider release or adoption by the public.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2016

This week, let’s walk through seven steps to developing a policy to manage the use and replenishment of reserve funds. Once an appropriate target amount has been determined for operating reserves, the board needs to draft a policy that establishes the fund and sets forth guidelines for using it. Designate staff vacancy savings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. In a follow up email, she asked what might be different about the adoption issues for social media? In the past, adoption of technologies like Web 1.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

The Salesforce nonprofit grantmaking solution, foundationConnect, was created over 15 years ago on the belief that we could support better collaboration among stakeholders in the grants management process. Depending on your operations and organizational policies, there might be data only certain staff should have access to view or edit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2014

Google+ isn’t for all nonprofits, but for those that have actively adopted a pro-social media policy, it’s worth the time investment to experiment with Google+. In the process, your nonprofit at the very least will increase your SEO in Google Search and position yourself as an early adopter of digital wallets.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

People and process problems frequently masquerade as technology problems. In fact, in many cases, what seem like problems with a particular piece of technology are actually due to issues with people, processes, or overall technology strategy. Have you looked at your business processes to make sure they’re efficient and effective?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

We need new policies, new technology, new strategies, and local support in order to build, implement, and sustain the kinds of solutions that will help us make progress on our goals. Integrating our customer process into Salesforce has been a big step forward for our programs,” said Tom Knox, Valley CAN’s executive director.

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Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local 97

Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Part of the process is to determine the people you will need to reach. The Importance of Narratives.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Establish initial governing documents and policies. . You’ll need to create Bylaws and Conflict of Interest documents and policies because both are needed for your IRS application. . Not understanding philanthropy or the fundraising process . Before you close your session, print your EIN. Fundraising is about more than the ask.

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Organization Files Nonprofit Grant 131

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. We define success, we decide what to measure, we collect the information, we own the data, and we don’t share the learning from the process.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 90

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes. This is a proactive change.

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Forum One

MAY 5, 2022

Automation in your Customer/Contact Relationship Management (CRM) tool can mean the processes in Salesforce, HubSpot, EveryAction, Charity Engine, and other common tools that filter audiences into segments based on their actions as donors, subscribers, event attendees, and more. Hint: The platforms know their algorithms better than you!

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TechImpact

JUNE 4, 2014

adopting this mindset, however, is often times more difficult than most imagine. Additionally, understanding what benefits will come as a result of this change in thought process is sometimes difficult to comprehend as well. Here are 4 ways your nonprofit will benefit from changing the way they think about how volunteers are engaged.

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Retention Volunteer Marketing Help 184

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They discussed ways that technology can improve services for people experiencing food insecurity, as well as the policy changes, investments, and cross-sector partnerships that are necessary to drive meaningful, lasting change. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. Melanie Calhoun. Emilio Tavarez.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. This blog post shares some thoughts.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Nimble AMS

MARCH 10, 2020

Or, it might mean you’ll need to have a conversation with the board about changing policies and bylaws to adopt a new process. Minimalism with data conversion can save considerable labor costs in the implementation process. Additionally, training helps with staff buy-in and improved adoption of the new AMS.

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Associations Software Management Phase 78

sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Let’s explore how these two factors impact higher education and the potential strategies institutions can adopt. provides federal incentives and policy support to encourage workforce development. At a time when as many as one in three bachelor’s degree recipients in the U.S. How is the perceived value of a college degree changing?

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