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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? What metrics do you use to measure success in major gift fundraising?

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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How can we prepare organizational leaders to work in a networked world?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Legal protection of control within public charities

ASU Lodestar Center

Like other successful entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs have the will and skill set to get things done and the traditional public charity structure and requirements may seem like burdensome barriers to moving forward. Founders need to well articulate their vision and involve others in developing plans to implement the mission.

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Can Data Bring Foundations and Nonprofits Closer?

Connection Cafe

It’s when you take that data and use it to guide stronger strategies and foster collaboration that data becomes a driver for change. With a platform for shared understanding of outcomes definition, how to measure progress, and a standardized language for giving, foundations and nonprofits are able to collaborate for change more effectively.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. What about you? What will you accomplish in 2018?

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

Museum 2.0

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. Moving from community needs out to possible projects/collaborators.

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