ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

The need for collaboration amongst a diverse array of community members has become a recognized focus within the nonprofit sector. What obligations do white-led nonprofits hold for working with minority community groups and nonprofits in their communities? Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Lego is another company that has consistently expanded its business model. Some models are more focused on individuals and others on groups and culture. Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. EI is not a new concept. Its origins go back almost 100 years.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

One opportunity IAEE uses for observation is a series of small group discussions called Community Buzz Hours. Member engagement scoring and modeling removes the guesswork E ngagement is an exchange of value between your member and your association.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Besides facing competition from free online sources of continuing education and mentorship, it can also be a challenge for associations to communicate their value, especially when it comes to younger generations. Yet, today’s consumers are no stranger to the membership model. One example of thought leadership is this blog!

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

Mini Code, Multiple Connections “There is a tendency to think of large language models as massive programs,” David said. Most of those instructions are dedicated to understanding what you type and translating it into a format the system can process. Like a child, with each success or failure, the model gains competence.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We continue to grow our offerings in Nimble Communities and reach higher levels of member engagement,” said Michael Blake, Chief Technology Officer at American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA). Encourage employees and members to ask questions and offer feedback to gain valuable insights into your processes and workflows.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A new threat is building in the wake of every previous challenge. Sharon Rice ,orgSource’s Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the process like this: “Scenario planning fills you with information and an understanding of the possibilities. Build Competencies Connecting with diverse groups and people creates nuanced vision.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, that model is being challenged. Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.” This may perpetuate the cycle of underserved communities remaining underserved. Large language models such as ChatGPT can make up facts and present them as true.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

In 2020, the philanthropic sector started conversations about how philanthropy can better support Black-led organizations and the Black community. Organizations hosted “listening” sessions, in which the Black community shared their experiences with leaders in the sector, mostly non-Black people of color and white people.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2024

To kickstart the process, you should make sure to answer the following questions: Nonprofit-Specific Questions #1 What is your nonprofit’s mission? As such, by defining your mission, you can better understand your community. 3 What operational processes or workflows do you currently lack?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Is it possible that your community has doubts about the organization’s credibility? From the beginning of her tenure at ENA, Nancy has made building a positive culture a priority. ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. What if the usual suspects are not to blame?

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 15, 2022

And while it’s great for specific uses in day-to-day operations like transactional, process renewals or course payments, it can’t help you answer complex questions (see our previous blog, Your AMS Wasn’t Designed for That ). Who are the community influencers on trending topics? Start to build Predictive Models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Workplaces are tapping into the power of ritual to create a sense of community, build relationships in the workplace and reduce stress. Of course, a raise or bonus is nice, but it is the public acknowledge that helps builds community. Rituals to Build Relationships. Rituals To Build Mindfulness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

” Its response neatly explained the nitty-gritty: “ ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. Google’s Bard is a generative language model from Google AI, trained on a massive dataset of text and code. The drawing will be live streamed and take place on 5/31 at the community center.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. Build Real Connections At Work Now here’s a fact: Real connections and friendships at work matter because they can help us get stuff done! Leaders need to set an example and hold themselves accountable.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Manual processes Does your staff spend hours a day on manual processes? When your association chooses to leverage innovative association management software (AMS), you can automate crucial staff processes. Try building a communication plan to keep stakeholders up to date on any developments.

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sgEngage

MARCH 11, 2024

AI tools enable major gift officers to do more with their time by minimizing administrative tasks, helping with research, and drafting communications. Ultimately, this helps major gift teams focus on what matters most—building relationships with donors and helping their organization make an impact.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

The pandemic spotlighted the inequalities of food allocation systems that weren’t distributing healthy, fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities. We know that technology can play an essential role in reimagining a new system that benefits families and communities alike. But technology alone isn’t the answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

This second post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For Chris lead us through a simple user design process based a book by Giles Colborne. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Think about all the teens that need community service hours!) In this article, we’ll show you how to build, train, steward, and replace your committee when it’s time. You can also use your event committee to generate buy-in from your community by leveraging your volunteers’ networks. Community Engagement.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

Also, create a process for reviewing prompts and providing feedback on what’s working — and what isn’t. Be Selective In The Use Of Large Language Models We all have heard it: Generative AI is predicting the most likely response to your prompt based on what it has already consumed. To borrow from Emily M.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt. Nonprofits are being asked to address these challenges and find sustainable models for local journalism.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. And then the community changes, there’s an opportunity for the institution and the service to change or not to change. We are, all of us, part of many communities and it is within these spaces that we build our lives and the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Today’s Q&A is with Alicia Dicks, President & CEO of The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

Creating stronger relationships with your grantees is at the heart of trust-based philanthropy, and a key part of helping you make a bigger impact on the community you serve. It’s your grantees—those who talk with individuals in your community every day—that often have a better understanding of how to use funds to get results.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” Layer two begins with the implementation process. Build a trusted network. Model selection. So where should nonprofit leaders begin?

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. Modeling equitable grantee- and constituent-centered practices. The practices of this relatively new form of philanthropy are still evolving.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

PEAK Grantmaking’s work centers on five core principles , each challenging our community of 8,000 philanthropy professionals to critically consider their internal grantmaking processes and perspectives, as a means toward operationalizing equitable grantmaking practices. This is the engine that drives transformation.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

From community involvement in your grantmaking decisions to better ways to think about risk, the current trends in grantmaking can help you make more effective decisions and more clearly tell your impact story. For example, bringing your community leaders closer to the decision-making process creates more effective grant programs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. So far, that sounds pretty familiar to how all companies operate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once a year, the global nonprofit community comes together to collaborate, share best practices, and connect at Dreamforce. This year, the focus is on building unique experiences to drive mission impact. A long time Salesforce customer, they made the switch from a legacy system and used Salesforce to build the Justice Data Solution.

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