Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

Depending on the size of your nonprofit, you might have numerous roles open at any given time. Reflect your nonprofit’s company culture and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in your email content. Pay attention to subject lines. Use automated personalization tools. Highlight benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It begins with learning, habituation, and cultural shifts to fully harness AI benefits responsibly. It means removing the busy work out of their hands so they turn their attention to more mission-critical work. As early adopters, they shared valuable insights on the early stages of AI adoption for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, many nonprofit boards do not reflect the communities in which those same organizations are serving. Being able to see people who look like them on boards and in leadership roles can only encourage a future generation of diverse leaders to help promote nonprofit missions. The Council on Nonprofits has samples to review.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Dill attributed that year’s lofty ratings to, among other factors, “the care and attention we exhibited toward [employees’] personal safety and situations; the accommodations we made; the way we responded to employees who contracted the virus; and also, unfortunately, to employees who lost family members.”

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Learning, we do naturally.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Calderoni explains that leaders must put character at the center of everything they do, and he explains that company culture is distinct from company character. Company character is the integrity, respect, and fortitude residing at the core of your culture. Calderoni : Historically, companies and the media focused on culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. This plays a crucial role in setting the direction and strategy of an organization, and can help to ensure that the organization is serving the needs of the community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

For the companies that offer these programs, it helps create the kind of company culture that attracts and retains talent. The “ Great Resignation ” received a lot of attention in the last year. However, some refer to it perhaps more accurately, as the “Great Reflection.” Companies Create a Culture for Employees to Thrive.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

But given the realities of today’s 24/7 world, you’re grappling with how to keep up, make a meaningful impact, and live a fulfilling life with so many things competing for your limited time, attention, and energy. You also know you must make time to rest, reflect, plan, and recharge. Here are three strategies to help you get started.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Evaluating a Culture. As Foundations Reimagine Themselves, They Should Give Attention to DEI in Operations. Cultural Organizing Needed for Equity: A Framework of Belonging. Going Upstream: Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Justice. Justice over greatness: A new year’s reflection. This is an open-ended list.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Your board can do much more than approve budgetary plans and make high-level decisions about your nonprofit’s direction; in fact, board members can play a substantial role in every aspect of your organization. This initial reflection will help your nonprofit identify your strengths and weaknesses and determine how you can grow.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

Because national days of service such as MLK Day and 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance garner great media attention, organizations can leverage this spotlight on volunteerism to broadcast their mission and volunteer opportunities more widely. How can we evolve the vision of service days towards days of reflection or learning ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. Showcase Panel. 11. What does it mean to be a “Master Trainer?”

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every individual within your nonprofit, from staff to volunteers, plays a crucial role in maintaining cybersecurity. You can also outline the roles and responsibilities of each team member during a cybersecurity crisis to ensure everyone is ready. Why are nonprofits vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks? Updated training.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Fundraising Planning and Climate Report ’s findings show the following: Adjust fundraising strategies : Based on the report’s predictions, consider adjusting your fundraising strategies to align with the current socioeconomic and cultural climate, and donor preferences. Have you brought this to the attention of your CEO and board?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2021

Can you make the culture real—and matter? But we do believe that to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills,” explain the authors. What is the leader’s role on the team? Can you build teams that are true teams? Can you lead transformation?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But this year’s agenda also brings content based on what we’ve all learned in the past 18 months that has caused us to “Rethink Change”—a term we’ve coined at Blackbaud to reflect the gear-shifting that foundation, and all nonprofit, professionals have had to do in the now-normal. A Grantmaker’s Guide to Trust-Based Philanthropy.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Someone with an objective role in the organization, often a Project Manager, serves as a facilitator and helps the team discuss what went right, what could have been done better, and what they might do differently next time. But the second ring of his concentric circle, the HOW, isn’t given nearly as much attention. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Patton’s ideas and the methods of developmental evaluation are gaining more attention and practice because social change projects are transcending from a primary focus on program impact to systems impact and make use of networks as a key strategy.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2016

However, the pillar which has most recently captivated my interest and attention in much of my work with nonprofits is the fifth one: a culture that values learning. So what does a learning culture look like? Even the busiest leaders, managers, and staff members carve out some time to step back, take stock, and reflect.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

8 Corporate Giving Trends to Pay Attention To Companies constantly change and expand their corporate giving initiatives. Individuals want to make a difference, and their employers can play an impactful role in that. No matter which side of these relationships you’re on, there’s something useful to learn.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 3, 2014

Every organization is different, and each board has a unique culture. Succession planning is the ongoing process of defining the organizational roles and capacities needed for success and of identifying and developing personnel to prepare them to fill those roles as needed. Pay attention to your own intentions and emotions.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The program provides focused attention on key compliance issues for both private foundations and charitable organizations, plus practical walk-throughs of an IRS audit and an Attorney General Investigation. 2018 Nonprofit Talent & Culture Summit. 2018 Nonprofit Talent & Culture Summit. Fundraising & Grants.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). I''d love to hear more peoples'' reflections on this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In reflection, I've been thinking about how much richer it is being social - how you don't have to know all the answers when you have a good network (and a decent Internet connection.) The writers often bring attention to subjects not yet covered by mainstream media. Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Unless they have experience in for-profit, many employees are not motivated by the common thread of making money for the organization; their roles may be too far removed from development, fundraising, etc. Besides the board, what about those who are employees? What are they like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

But it was pointed out that there is a lot known about the numbers and less is known about how they are using, the role it plays, and what it means to them. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. It seems more like rapid attention shifting.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It also has the power to make our culture more equitable for everyone. Photographs are incredibly powerful, and they play a huge role in shaping how we see the world and the people around us. Inclusion: A culture where diverse perspectives are welcomed and valued. Tips for choosing inclusive photos.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Fusing current and historical human trafficking tales, players of SOS_Slaves will take on the roles of both victims and social activists. The struggle for the jury was to find how the simple gameplay reflects the game’s goal of empowering women to believe that they are capable of solving hard problems through teamwork and leadership.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

At times of crisis, this attention toward what is most important and impactful, and in some senses returning to the core, has brought clarity through very difficult times, and has enabled innovation toward achieving mission. I have been most impressed by the mission-focus we have seen at our member institutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

New to your leader role? If you don't want to read the book in one sitting, follow Nathan’s suggestion to read one or two leadership topics (one topic per chapter) at a time, and then reflect on and practice the techniques he teaches. Young professionals pay attention to their colleagues who know what they're doing.

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