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8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture

sgEngage

Showcase attitudes, actions, and qualities you want your team to mirror. Collaboration: Working collaboratively is the only way to combine ideas and perspectives. Overcome Inertia Innovation can be stifled by thorough approval cycles, long hierarchical structures, and outdated attitudes, often prevalent in nonprofits.

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Unions and their role in the social sector

Candid

Unions are usually structured around large national/international organizations that contain smaller local organizations (also known as “locals”). Police unions have also opposed criminal justice reform and police accountability measures. . Unlike 501(c)(3)s, however, donations to 501(c)(5) organizations are not tax exempt. .

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For networked learning to be beneficial, it requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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CRM is the easy part

Connection Cafe

Or, “management must embrace and imbue a constituent centric attitude throughout the organization.” ” Last time you were at the pharmacy, did you pick up the constituent engagement attitude dispenser in the specialty item aisle? But look at your internal structure and ask yourself: how are my employees incentivized?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. It enables organization to show their constituents that the organization is engaged – the organization measures its impact based upon the content of stories. Collaboration Among Leading Initiatives .

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? If your institution cares about deep engagement, measure dwell time and survey people about their experiences. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values.

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