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How to Make Your Nonprofit Recession-Proof: Perfect Your Operating Reserves Policy

Blue Fox

First off: do you have an operating reserves policy? If so, when is the last time your leadership team reviewed the policy? If it’s been a while read on as we guide you through the process of building an operating reserves policy, and the implementation and ongoing oversight of that policy. A starting point.

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3 Grassroots advocacy milestones to meet this month

EveryAction

Many organizations delayed their policy agenda-setting until they were certain which party would be in control of each chamber of Congress. Pro tip: you might need to use a benchmark lower than four actions if your action opportunities were sparse over the past six months.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

Qgiv

Responsibilities : Who will be responsible for updating and maintaining the policies? Invest in training each team member to ensure everyone is on the same page and has an opportunity to ask questions and practice the new policies and data entry procedures. Share tips and tricks for quicker entry, dashboard access, reporting, etc.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Do you have a friending policy ? Are you just accepting everyone on every network?

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The image above is deck of cards and there are 52 cards in a deck. This gives me the opportunity to brainstorm 52 different tips, one to write about in more depth for each week of 2009. The tips below are for you. . That's what the tips below will help you do. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

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Four Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

sgEngage

Another way to establish consistency is to standardize processes and policies regardless of the team manager. Fundraiser Performance Management includes predictive models, peer benchmarks, and year-round consulting to improve fundraising results. Become their trusted resource, coach, and advocate.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. Co-development led to conceptualization of participation of people with disabilities in advocacy for legislative, policy and government program change as an impact—in and of itself—regardless of outcome. But is this the right question?