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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

If that sounds like a heavy lift for your group, identifying the reward in change will go a long way toward winning your staff’s cooperation. One of the major conclusions of an innovation study conducted by Amanda Kaiser was that the CEO’s openness to new ideas has a huge impact on an organization’s ability to change and adapt.

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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Studies show that people who practice personal gratitude have more positive emotions, less stress, fewer health issues, a greater sense of optimism, and higher satisfaction with their jobs and co-workers. That sounds great, right? Write down your feelings, especially the ones you have trouble articulating. Why are you afraid?

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Sound familiar? While a 2014 IBM study on organizational change found that 88 percent of respondents believed leveraging new technologies would be the biggest change they would encounter in the next five years, 74 percent also admitted that their organizations were not fully prepared to adapt to an increasingly digital world.

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Eight Tips for a Successful (and Happy) Web Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

This may sound like a no-brainer,but, the digital world is full of larger than life personalities and sometimes these personalities clash. The client will need to articulate what is pretty to them by showing examples of sites they would describe as pretty. Make Sure You Don’t Irritate Each Other. Pretty’ is a very subjective word.

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How to Get Donations for a Fundraiser: 10 Best Practices

Allegiance Group

Studies show that around 72% of consumers only engage with marketing that is personalized to their unique needs and interests, and those preferences can carry over into communications about fundraising. A 2022 Fundraising Effectiveness Project study found while overall fundraising grew by 2.25%, retention rates declined.

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Demographics Are Destiny: How and Why to Diversify Your Staff Now!

NTEN

Last spring the Urban Institute and the Racial Diversity Collaborative released a study called Measuring Racial-Ethnic Diversity in the Baltimore-Washington Region's Nonprofit Sector. The study, like others , found that "nonprofit sector leadership lags population diversity." And they will. Get educated. What blogs do they read?

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Do they “get it” now? The value of #musesocial and #musetech in the era of COVID-19

Museum 2.0

She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Consider too that it’s not easy to articulate this value for those who are in it.you just do it, because you’re awesome at it. Sounds dramatic, I know. It’s essential that we take the time to write case studies, gather metrics, capture screenshots. What’s really wrong?”

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