.orgSource

APRIL 22, 2024

I interviewed Hugh for, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” a book I wrote with my business partner Kevin Ordonez. We selected this group because, as independent business owners, they were acutely aware of the challenges of digital markets and the attitudes needed for success.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

One goal was to identify how the pandemic impacted their business models. A post-pandemic business environment, characterized by change and disruption, provides good reasons to open the windows and let fresh air revitalize, even fundamental concepts. That’s why they also deserve frequent exploration and evaluation.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Fortunately, the book provides you with the blueprint for navigating those hurdles while being able to take a truly strategic approach to all facets of your business.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Jara Dean-Coffey discussed impact, with a focus on how organizations should be evaluative , rather than simply doing evaluation.

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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. Many receive a combination of both. Increase efficiency.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2024

If you are unclear about your needs, abilities, and opportunities, you will quickly find it difficult to vet vendors and evaluate CRMs, not to mention bringing internal stakeholders onboard or getting sign-off at key stages. Identifying the answers to these 12 questions will enable you to build a comprehensive internal business case.

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sgEngage

JULY 3, 2023

Evaluate your current business model. Consider the various impacts the current situation has on your business model, such as staffing, fundraising, and service delivery. Consider this an opportunity to re-evaluate your business model going forward and make any adjustments to best serve your community.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

Now that “disruption” is a business catchphrase, is “resilience” an equally common term in your professional vocabulary? Resilience , or learning to surf those breakers, must be a priority on the business agenda. My business partner, Dan Kasprow, and I had been working on some large project implementations.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. When we began that project in 2017, we knew business was changing quickly. To succeed, you’ll need these skills: self-awareness to understand what you don’t know, curiosity to study the business landscape, and humility to learn from unexpected teachers.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

During 2018 and 2019, my business partner, Kevin Ordonez and I, interviewed approximately 50 association executives. Their advice about strategy, leadership, and digital business is still ahead of its time. Business is Darwinian. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With AI showing up as a wonder tool in nearly every platform we use, it’s no surprise that every industry, every business unit is suddenly racing to adopt AI. Whether you decide to “hand over the keys” to an AI system or use it as an assistant to support the work you do, you have to trust the model. AI is another tool in your toolbox.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The technology promises to upend the way business operates. Abilities rooted in a deep understanding of human behavior remain essential for success in business and life. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see. Yet no one is sure how that new reality will unfold.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

But, in the fray of digital business, obstacles to progress can be fatal. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. So how do you maintain the high level of board performance required to succeed in a disruptive business environment? In a kinder, gentler marketplace coasting was allowed.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives. The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. Who Uses CSR Software?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 16, 2018

Ray’s experience in launching and building businesses spans nearly three decades, including leadership positions in multiple technology companies. This move could unseat nonprofit players like GoFundMe and GlobalGiving that charge a fee as a part of their business model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Fortunately, the book provides you with the blueprint for navigating those hurdles while being able to take a truly strategic approach to all facets of your business.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. Tear down walls (literally and figuratively)​ Embrace a continuous process​ The Erosion of Confidence Sharon Rice,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our resident trend watcher. Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

It’s not a business model. . To be successful, you must understand that you’re starting a business. You can also double-check with the Department of Commerce to ensure a business hasn’t already trademarked the name you want to use. By fax, it can take four business days and four to five weeks by mail.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Social enterprise is any earned income business or strategy undertaken by a nonprofit to generate revenue in support of its charitable mission. These revenue-generating businesses serve to provide unrestricted funding to the organization that sustains them and often expands organizational capacity to serve their client base.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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Forj

AUGUST 17, 2021

In episode 7 of the Managing eLearning Podcast , Jon & Matt sit down with Celisa Steele Co-Founder & Managing Director for Tagoras to discuss the Learning Business Maturity Model , which articulates the characteristics of a mature market-facing learning business or line of business, as well as the stages that typically precede full maturity.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Predictive analytics: BWF defines predictive analytics as the process of assessing your nonprofit’s data to make predictions and model future donor behavior. By analyzing historical data, AI models can anticipate future donor behavior and identify potentially valuable fundraising opportunities.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues. Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is the common good operated within a nonprofit or as a wholly owned subsidiary of the nonprofit. Why pursue a social enterprise model? Step 1: Get organized.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process. In order to establish an effective learning program, there must be a great consideration for the future needs of the day to day business, and the workforce themselves. Rely on reporting and measurement to continuously evaluate the content that is being delivered.

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Process Business Learning Blended 61

sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

In this session, we will examine strategies and approaches to leadership including reimagining faculty and staff evaluations, identifying, and leveraging talents and passions, and leading from an inverse pyramid model and mindset. That’s why getting IT leaders and the Business Office aligned is key to advancing school operations.

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Blackbaud API Empowerment Nevada 85

Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2020

Your AMS solution should use the Salesforce Person Accounts data model. It’s important to select the data model for your Salesforce-based AMS that truly supports the way an association works. Associations need technology that facilitates business with both individuals and organizations. You need a full Salesforce sandbox.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. vii The x-axis represents how important each factor or characteristic is in the machine learning model we used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. These points also make me think about an organizational listening/learning model. My questions: .

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection. Product Maturity: Evaluate the CMS’s reputation, support availability, and roadmap projection. Always consider both the cost and the value to strike the right balance.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. Start-up organizations often adopt a “working board” model due to limited funds or the desire to generate community buy-in with a 100% volunteer-led mission. An organization transitions into a “governing board” model when an ED is hired.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

On one hand, consumers and employees alike are demanding that businesses add more purpose to their profit-centric model. On the other hand, we see nonprofits borrowing heavily from successful for-profit companies in search of a more scalable and sustainable growth model. 184 days after engaging with a donation page.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They don’t evaluate the numbers. . With that in mind, ask yourself: Is everything you’re doing or budgeting for aligned with your business plan? Before you do, consider that you might need to shift your funding model and mindset first. It’s non-negotiable: You have to know your true budgeted need. Invest in your people. .

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

One reason for this is the difference in the tool’s data models: UA relies on session-based data, while GA4 operates on an event-based model. Their costs can vary as well, and they have a variety of pricing models that may or may not work well for your organization. GA4 is a replacement for UA rather than an update to it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

And why forecasting for “going back to normal” is not a good business plan. Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. You may have focused more on individual major giving since foundations and businesses were cutting back. . And the difference between “iteration” and “innovation.”

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Finance leaders should be able to calculate the projected ROI of their decisions—to make the business case for every hardware purchase and software subscription, report on the impact of those investments, and evaluate the need for upgrades or new technologies on an ongoing basis. Identify Ways to Reduce Waste.

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