ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Resources, symbolic attraction of alliance members, and expanded networks” as stated in a review from AIM Alliance , are all compelling benefits to joining forces, however, organizations should proceed with caution as these solutions are not sole problem solvers.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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. Learning, we do naturally.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

In episode 7 of the Managing eLearning Podcast , Jon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras to discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model , which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

You’re part of the problem. In fact, you may BE the problem. Welcome to the real world of “more than a great fundraising technician”—and that holds true for pretty much any senior-level position, e.g., program director, finance officer, and of course the ED/CEO.”. Better yet, try them all: Begin with your executive director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming generates creative solutions to a problem in the hope of finding the best solution. Asking the Right Brainstorming Question or Problem Framing is Secret to Success. All ideas are as valid as each other.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Marla Cornelius , Senior Project Director. If you're interested in learning more, this topic will be explored in more depth in the upcoming Daring to Lead 2011 brief: Inside the Executive Director Job , which you can find on the Daring to Lead website next month. CompassPoint. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As a nonprofit director, you probably already have your organization on your heart and mind 24/7. Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Writing down a person’s strengths alongside their weaknesses doesn’t erase the problem you need to work with the employee to solve. Why are you afraid?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2016

Graham is the principal and creative director of SW Creatives , and has provided branding and design consultation to nonprofits for over 10 years. ” Recognize the Problem. Many times, nonprofits don’t recognize the problems that poor branding is causing. Articulate Your Message.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving. Defining and Refining the Problem to Optimize Solving It with Tech.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2017

I think we have all come to realize that just adding a minority seat to your board of directors, or consciously making an attempt to fill that open position with someone from a different cultural background, simply isn’t enough. Encourage the board of directors to articulate an inclusivity statement for your organization.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In the needs section of a grant, you need to do three things to score high on a grant proposal: Eliminate flowery language, Include sources and citations, and Include a clear Problem Statement. What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

I followed up with Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director) to learn more about how they went about this first very important first step for measuring social media – defining results. Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director).

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

They may tell you a story about a Development Director who was super nervous or a friend who asked for a big gift on the golf course. Often when a person struggles to put something into words, it means the issue is very important to them and they want to articulate it in an accurate way. It can also tip you off to their expertise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 29, 2012

posted by Sheryl Keeme , Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It only takes an oversight or a small error to blow up into a problem that could have been avoided with some basic facts. Have you ever been asked what you do for a living and when you responded, the person reacted as though you were Mother Teresa?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Non-profits know this is true, but the problem is investing in the resources needed to become a data-driven non-profits.&#. Start at the top.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one. spanhidden.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. { There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2006

In my last post , I was pondering the problems in the communication process between users and technology assitance providers - problems that are so pervasive they have given rise to a whole series of internet jokes. Only after they are articulated will the techy become responsible for providing a solution.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. Government, and it talks about being interested in working on addressing the problem and discussing a wide range of solutions including the proposed Treaty. Long post alert!]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced. He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

I think one of the problems here is that people see spreadsheets as *just* one component of an office suite. OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

“Our Foundation markets to a targeted group,” said Robyn Browning, executive director of the Herbalife Family Foundation, which was created in 1994 by the late Mark Hughes, founder of Herbalife. The Foundation, which raised $4.58 million in 2014 and made grants totaling $2.69 “Recognition is important. .'”

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

The ideas and narrative are laid out in a well-articulated strategic brief. " If design itself is understood though the lens of design thinking and problem solving, then design strategy is the ultimate strategy. Design strategy extends far beyond the visual to include. What do you think? Let us know below, or shoot me an email.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Unfortunately, many founders or leaders skip creating one — which generally leads to fundraising frustrations and stalled services, among other problems. A good plan answers a number of who, what, when, where questions like these: What problem is your nonprofit trying to solve? What are the exact goals you are trying to achieve?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

In a posting back in August, I quoted from my friend Esther Merves, who after a seven-year stint as a Membership Director in an education association, complained that all the software she looked at to help her "manage" her members offered very little to help her retain members or attract new members. No problem!" There's lots of those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. In addition, we will be using a wiki to showcase learning and a private Facebook group for daily contact and “just in time” support.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. My director and I sat down and talked about how they could help me reconcile my identity as an out woman with having to be “closeted” in the workplace.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

We sent the first email, explaining the problem and our plan to fight it. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it. and serves as the Communications Director for AIDS.gov, William Neuheisel is the Communications Manager at DC Central Kitchen, John Kenyon is a nonprofit technology educator and strategist.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2007

Kelly Ronayne, the Director of Membership Data & Strategic Services at AARP put my personal discovery into perfect (and much more articulate) words in his presentation about CRM (Customer Relationship Management). We often bring up old stories, adding the next chapters and predicting what might happen in the future.

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M+R

MAY 12, 2021

Need is the expression of a problem, but impact isn’t simply our proposed solution. Impact provides a direct link to an individual’s response (volunteering, emailing Congress, becoming a sustainer) and the need we’ve already articulated. This does not mean that we are asking the audience to solve the problem single handedly.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. Share your ideas.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” But now, here’s the problem. But the problem was, he had never done that before. Our sector is led from visionaries who are pushing people to. We want to scale.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Like I said, as the senior director of stewardship and communications at the University of Pennsylvania. I once went with the executive director of a dance organization to a one-to-one meeting with a prospect. One of my most successful meetings was when I was director of development at a midsized nonprofit. Be prepared.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Through the negotiation training, women began identifying particular problems that they were having in their work.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. The problem is aestheticized, framed, or reconfigured; it is seldom erased or resolved. Eric: Exactly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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