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Hire Fresh Talent—But Before You Shop, Check the Fridge

.orgSource

Once we talk through the issues, they realize that there is a current employee, who with the right training and mentoring, would be a great fit for the role. Technology offers plenty of collaboration strategies that don’t require people to be physically present. Employers can, and should, play an exciting role in that process.”

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Essential Traits of Effective Nonprofit Leaders

Greater Giving

They articulate a clear direction, outlining the impact the organization strives to achieve. This investment empowers staff to excel in their roles, leading to higher morale, reduced turnover, and ultimately, a stronger organization. Fostering Collaboration Great nonprofit leaders cultivate a collaborative environment.

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Is a crisis management plan enough?

ASU Lodestar Center

Employees are expecting authenticity, transparency, flexibility and collaboration from their leaders, characteristics of which are not typically written into crisis management plans. Organizations should also articulate the particular characteristics and leadership traits needed for different types of crises within their plans.

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Top Interview Questions For Hiring a Major Gifts Officer

Allegiance Group

Candidates should be able to quickly articulate a nuanced commitment to both in the form of details about the organization, trends in fundraising, and awareness of traits required to be a strong major gifts officer. What experience do you have in major donor fundraising? How would you go about discovering new potential donors?

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DIY Online Collaboration: Wikis

Tech Soup

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Begin by identifying what your community needs and articulate what the purpose of your wiki is. Contributions to the wiki came from TechSoup forum leaders, many of whom serve in those roles as volunteers.

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Boosting Board Collaboration: Getting Board Buy-In for Collaboration Tools

NTEN

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware (Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from the feature article "Boosting Board Collaboration " , which appeared in the first issue of NTEN's new publication: NTEN:Change, A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders. Read the entire article and the complete issue by subscribing online.)

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8 Steps to Outcomes-Oriented Collaboration

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofits today are increasingly asked to collaborate. Despite these pressures, rarely does anyone define what is meant by “collaboration.” This dual role for our center operators gave us a window into the inner workings of creating authentic engagement or collaboration among nonprofits who are members or tenants of these centers.