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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Chaos in daily operations is diverting attention from strengthening important programs. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. We had a roadmap for how to advance the organization and prepare for the next phase of growth.”. New hires don’t engage. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake.

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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

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While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. Pay close attention to what people are saying and look for common themes or pain points. Focus Groups Don’t forget to talk to your fans directly!

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Anatomy of a successful capital campaign committee meeting

Candid

Some committee members may only attend a few meetings, while others may participate through an entire phase of the campaign. After all, a capital campaign can involve wildly different tasks—ranging from reviewing big-picture development progress down to choosing a color scheme for your public phase marketing materials.

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Turning Crisis into Community: How to Make Emergency Donors Lifelong Supporters

The Modern Nonprofit

However, the real challenge begins when the initial urgency subsides and public attention shifts away. The post-emergency phase sees many organizations grappling with a decline in donations, a critical period where strategic donor engagement can make a difference.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Deciphering Key Questions It is equally as important to determine what to collect as it is to identify what we can stop giving our attention. In addition to these traditional elements of data collection, datamaking requires an additional three elements.

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4 Tips to Optimize Your Healthcare Organization Website

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With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination campaigns capturing public attention, accurate, user-friendly healthcare websites are more crucial than ever. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility.

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Priming phase of the DLP sets the stage for learning before the event takes place through two processes: pre-assessment and pre-work. Pre-assessment gathers a sense of participants’ current knowledge and skill so that facilitators can tailor training designs to “meet participants where they are.”.

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