.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If these two drivers of engagement are a world apart, it will be challenging to deliver the seamless experience customers expect from their favorite brands. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The process can be long and filled with challenges. Share your existing process documents Before you begin your AMS search , start by document ing all your vital organizational processes. Take special care to detail your membership processes, including the joining and renewal detail s. Our team is here to help!

Tips 120

Tips Associations Registration Software 120

Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2021

Managing event volunteers can be challenging! Here are 4 of the most common volunteer management problems and how your organization can avoid them. But experienced planners also know that a group of eager volunteers often comes with its own challenges and barriers. What’s better than qualified help for your event?

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Problem Volunteer Management Roles 56

.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging. But that is also probably the most challenging solution. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. You can build more collaborative teams. New talent needs a permanent line in the budget.

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Trend Influence Taxonomy Associations 221

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question. But I am struck by how often our contributors’ insights are the recommendations we needed to survive that challenge. Embrace a challenge. For your staff?

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Advice Course Associations Change 170

.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Then, as you learn more about their challenges and opportunities, you can narrow the scope. Fortunately, subpar technology is a problem that can be fixed.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 29, 2023

Often, the road is wi nding, filled with challenges and opportunities for your organization to grow. Working with an AMS selection consultant helps to simplif y this process , offering numerous benefits. Here are four ways an AMS selection consultant can help your association find the right AMS: 1.

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Consultant Benefit Work Associations 132

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. Your people can help answer critical questions: Are we solving the right problem? Is a process or culture change also needed for the solution to work?

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. What problems are we trying to solve? So, we conducted interviews to understand the most important use cases for fiscal sponsorship data and about the process of fiscal sponsorship. Does the solution work?

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Build Tools Problem Test 64

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. In fast-moving digital markets, regular updates on the status of governance can be a compass to help the group stay on the right path and adjust to unexpected challenges.

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Evaluation Government Director Facilitation 251

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

This short paragraph should answer questions such as: Why is this project worth doing? Problem/Opportunity Statement Your problem or opportunity statement is an objective description of the challenges associated with the gap between the current-state and desired future-state. When and where do problems occur?

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

If you’re like most enterprise level associations, you likely have an in-depth process to get executive approval for any technology investments. It can be a challenge obtaining executive buy-in for new association management software (AMS). Is your organization considering a new software purchase? How much will it cost?

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Technology Build Associations Change Management 140

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

If these two drivers of engagement are a world apart, it will be challenging to deliver the seamless experience customers expect from their favorite brands. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information.

Collaboration 221

Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. Agency for International Development and for an international NGO.

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Mentoring Policy Review Technique 96

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Most groups navigated the unusual challenges and got work done. And, most importantly, we discovered new strategies for adaptation and problem solving. Learning to communicate with greater intentionality is another road to smooth virtual relationships.orgSource Senior Consultant, Kevin Martlage , describes the process like this.

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Virtual Lesson Experiment Learning 251

Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., — Opportunity about to be missed Dear Opportunity about to be missed, You’ve actually named the problem in the way you’ve framed your question. Insiders, like you, tend to care about processes. What should I do?

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Celebrate Awareness Hurricane Charity 93

.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A new threat is building in the wake of every previous challenge. Learn Through Challenge Resilience goes beyond successfully recovering from a setback. Learn Through Challenge Resilience goes beyond successfully recovering from a setback. Yes, it involves assessing the situation and addressing problems.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

There are endless unanswered questions about where technology, and particularly AI, will take us, our lifestyles, and our careers. Back on earth, our discussion centered on this question: How is the role of associations in society changing and is it expanding, contracting, or being completely reshaped? Yes, he worked on space lasers!

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Associations Jordan Industry Podcast 221

.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. In this age of unprecedented processing power, why is critical thinking important? Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. quadrillion floating-point operations per second.

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Skills Collaboration Communication Classroom 221

Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a development director who wants advice on how to enact board term limits: Dear Charity Clairity, We don’t have term limits for our board and, as the development director, I think this is becoming a problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

"The challenge for the organizational architect is to systematically create the blueprint for an organization that consciously connects everything to purpose ," explains author Clive Wilson , in his book, Designing the Purposeful Organization. The product of doing this are measurable results and, importantly, a felt sense of success.

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Question Facilitation Case Study Knowledge 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

What you won’t find is a book that specifically covers the challenge you face now: the CEO transition – a period that covers your first 6–12 months in the role , which is often the most challenging and crucial time for a company and its new leader.” Most often, a new CEO will follow either a predecessor hero or villain. “As

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. A look at the grant reporting process Each year, Candid is required to submit approximately 100 grant reports to our funders. To streamline the process, one person collects the information and drafts the report.

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Grant Report Template Comparison 105

.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Ask open-ended questions that invite feedback and follow-up. Practice questioning your attitudes and intentions before every decision. “Association executives are really lucky. Observe behavior.

Awareness 221

Awareness Singapore Journal Roles 221

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While technology for nonprofits is a win for nonprofits, a question exists about what shapes this technology’s development. The post The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity appeared first on NTEN. Is it actually nonprofit customer needs, or is it other factors in the market?

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Problem Data API Global 62

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

Mentoring 79

Mentoring Policy Technique News 79

Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Where will we need to add, reduce, or diversify talent?

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San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I selected this book to be this year’s winner because it is full of specific examples of challenges and solutions from fields as diverse as nonprofits, school boards, healthcare, and the corporate world. Leadership is mobilizing others to make progress on the most important challenges. Leadership comes in moments.

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Leadership Kansas Authoring Chapter 86

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

The challenge that many nonprofits experience is that volunteers start out excited, but the excitement soon fades, and so does their participation. Sometimes the most challenging part about creating a plan is getting started. Process Volunteers. Volunteers can have an enormous impact on reaching your goals. Supervise Volunteers.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Use Ability To Tame the Unknown To say that predicting the future of work will be challenging is a gross understatement. Lifelong learners, problem-solvers, innovators, and creative thinkers don’t want to work in an intellectual vacuum. These are questions to ask: Is everyone a competent user of the available software platforms?

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Team Time Skills Professional 221

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. What problems are you trying to solve? These should include a description of the challenges faced, the approach taken, and the final solution implemented. Nice-to-haves.

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Websites Analytics Project Proposal 304

Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

From Birth to Adolescence in the Nonprofit Lifecycle The process of creating an organization is messy, painful, sometimes almost tragic ( tragic flaws are as common here as in Shakespeare). If you understand the process in those terms, it might be possible to avoid some of the pitfalls, or at least, take comfort in their necessity.

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Nonprofit Children Problem Phase 85

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity. They work together to make the leap from ideas to processes.

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

The challenges of designing and deploying robust, efficient and cost-effective systems and processes, configured to your unique needs with strong governance, adoption and lifecycle management are daunting even for the largest organizations. And if you get it wrong, your tech will create more problems than it solves.

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Tech Team Sharepoint Nonprofit 362

Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Searching for new technology can be a lengthy process for even the most organized association. Outline organizational challenges. By outlining the problems your association is currently facing. Reflect on your old software and create a strategy for buying new tech by asking the following questions: .

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Tips Time Associations Software 130

Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Identify your unique data challenges. Lots of challenges, right? The scope of the problem seems really big…but is bad data really preventing you from getting your work done? Continuous Improvement: This is a process that will take some time (and patience ). Quality : How up-to-date is your data? How accurate is it?

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Data Analytics Associations Registration 169