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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

.orgSource

To convince you to buy from me, you must believe that I can increase revenue, decrease costs, reduce cycle time, enhance the member experience, and finally, mitigate risk. leaders imagine the next problem before it surfaces and are willing to test, experiment, and iterate until they find the solution. Association 4.0

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Give Joy!

.orgSource

Wouldn’t it be great if we could invest a bigger portion of that significant time in giving and receiving joy? It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Take time to listen to the answer. Allocate time off for exercise. Offer an unexpected compliment.

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Navigating the nonprofit RFP process

EveryAction

When I asked her to describe the problem, here’s what she said: I’ve never done this before, and I feel like I’m making it up as I go along. Lisa was losing confidence in herself—but the RFP process she was using was the real cause of her problems. This is not a time to maintain secrecy about your budget.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Building a website can be costly and time-consuming. What problems are you trying to solve? Content to be relocated elsewhere on your site. Recommended resource: How to conduct a content inventory and audit. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter. Objectives of the redesign. Target audiences. Secondary and below.

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Avoiding Conflict: It’s All about Expectations

VQ Strategies

That’s the first opportunity to clearly articulate the expectations for the volunteer – and to assess whether the role is, in fact, realistic. Agree on time commitment and timeline. Taking the time to establish expectations now sets everyone up for success. I often consider this the first vital reality check.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

Get Fully Funded

At a minimum, a team with a poor leader is unproductive like this one: With the right leadership, a nonprofit can grow quickly, fulfilling its mission and meeting a community need or eliminating a problem. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams. The upside is that there is space for new leaders to emerge.

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