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Is Your Board Properly Supporting Your Executive Director

BoardAssist

One of a board member’s main roles—while rarely discussed—is to support the executive director (ED). It requires a deep understanding of the ED’s roles and your place in making that person successful…without micromanaging. Is Your Board Properly Supporting Your Executive Director. Know your role.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. Please explain the role of cash and mobile payments, particularly M-Pesa, in individual giving in Kenya. Why is that?

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Throwback Thursday: GlassPockets editor’s top five for funders

Candid

Check out the helpful advice for funders on ways to leverage transparency to improve equitable access to philanthropic resources. This article synthesizes this collective wisdom from grants management professionals’ reflections. Can a foundation live up to its role of serving the public good with an invite-only process?

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Field Notes from an Executive Director: Help Your Board Help You

NonProfit Hub

So I share with you first-hand experiences of the dynamic relationship between the board of directors and the executive director. So I was able to get great advice from them as we formed our board and will now share with you. This applies to the executive director as well as the board. Help your board help you.

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Building Trust & Engagement with Your Planned Giving Program

Get Fully Funded

Understand your fundraisers’ role in the process and the best practices for how to talk about it: Don’t mention death. Even though many planned giving touchpoints occur offline in meetings or over the phone, your website still has an important role to play. Educate your team and your donors. Learn more about planned giving as a team.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

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Interview with Andrea Post, NTEN's Events Manager

NTEN

The longer version of the story is that in a previous role, I was a part of a grantmakers'' group that was talking about funding NTEN back in the very early days. What are some of the lessons you learned as the former Director of Community Affairs for the One Economy Corporation? Doesn’t everyone just know NTEN?

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