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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Required documents: To obtain grants, you need proof of your nonprofit status or fiscal sponsor. Organized recordkeeping is key. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities?

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources.

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21 Strategic Lessons for Creating Great Nonprofit Games

Tech Soup

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Farmville and FoldIt (showing the architecture of the AIDS virus) are related in terms of collaboration, crowdsourcing solutions through social play. (JD).

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do.

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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We scrounged for free couches. But we got it going anyway.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. Social media, in particular, offers a day-to-day alternative to annual reports, press releases and grant reports in showing direct impact in a consistent, immediate way.

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