Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

In addition, we will share several of our organization’s free educational and planning resources to support your efforts throughout this piece. In practice, this might mean considering where your nonprofit has a chance to grow, recognizing when ways of working need to adapt to changing conditions, or opting to rethink your mix of programs.

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Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. In the 2021 survey, 92.2%

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2023

Your data tells you who is supporting your mission and offers insights into how, when, and even why they choose to give. No matter the scale of your organization, an effective data governance framework is necessary to communicate your impact clearly to grantmakers and donors alike.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Identify the person who will be the primary project manager as well as the member of leadership who will make the final decisions. What is the impact of the problem? Resources What resources do you need to fully support the lifecycle of this project? Risks No change management undertaking is without its risks.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Support these policies with management tools that help you stay on track with requirements and deadlines throughout the entire grant lifecycle. Get a clear understanding of what capabilities you need in your accounting software to effectively manage grant funds. Foster strong internal partnerships. Keep the momentum going.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. The pressure to respond when demand spikes in the communities you serve can be great—but these powerful opportunities to make an impact are the reason nonprofits exist. Inadequate Processes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. . From Climate Change to Navigating the Unexpected. Industry Leaders Share Insights and Learnings in Breakout Sessions and Panels.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

All of this is change. The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. They are supported by approximately 50 faculty and staff. My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Leadership engagement Every nonprofit leader is in their position for a reason. Changing systems from QuickBooks to Intacct is not going to solve a “bad reporting” issue. However, changing culture will. Changing from one system to another is a process change.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The social justice organization supported Black and Indigenous people through grantmaking with an annual budget between $2 million and $3 million. The pressure to respond when demand spikes in the communities you serve can be great—but these powerful opportunities to make an impact are the reason nonprofits exist.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

The 4th edition of the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Trends Report highlighted the positive impact nonprofits have experienced from investment in new payment methods, technologies, and skills. Of nonprofits who added payment methods and donation options, the majority saw a positive impact. Many tried new things….but Evolution or Revolution?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Consider all ramifications Enthusiasm and innovation are great, but only when they support your mission and move your organization forward. Can this new platform integrate into our existing tech stack, or will it create more work for staff to support and manage it? What and who does it impact? Who is the decision maker?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2014

If you register for NTEN’s first-ever Leading Change Summit this September (#14LCS), you’ll be asked to choose one of three tracks— Digital Strategy , The Future of Technology , or Impact Leadership —and you’ll spend quite a bit of time with your track-mates at the Summit.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

Sure, we need those things to do our work well, but we know the real impact lies elsewhere: using handheld devices to collect data in the field, crowdsourcing maps to help under-resourced communities get the services they need, putting the power of your mission right into the hands of your stakeholders with mobile apps.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Flickr photo: Chris.Corwin Nothing gets done without leadership. My favorite thing about leadership is that it can come from everywhere. If technology is going to help us meet our missions, we're going to have to measure its impact, just like we measure our financial investments. When we get lost, leaders help us find our way.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Do you need new ideas on how to engage your supporters? Do you want to better understand your supporters? No matter how many supporters you have, you are probably constantly looking for new ways to appreciate, engage and retain them. reports that 75 percent of CRM initiatives fail to impact the customer experience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Leaders should also work to avoid SRT Leadership Traps – traps such as, getting in your own way, succumbing to paralysis by analysis, allowing your Board to be your customer and rushing the Reset. Preparation shifts your perception of change from a risk to protect yourself from, to a growth opportunity.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

This level of economic uncertainty requires the kind of adaptive leadership and system-wide reckoning that feels like a daunting task until now. Authors Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell have introduced a proven method for change management called matrix mapping. However, counseling also was considered a low-impact program.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Communities of Impact program, generously supported by Microsoft, combines NTEN’s strengths in community building and education delivery to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofit organizations while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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Forum One

MAY 6, 2021

How can you better serve your customers using a digital platform and how can that positively impact your agency or organization? The biggest advantage of digital modernization—by far—is that you can have a bigger impact. Start with thinking about what services you have that are digital or need to move to digital. Where to start.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ]. The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. In order to be successful in this step you will need full management support and a dedicated key project lead for your team.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Through those transformational conversations with your community, you can ask how your organization can show up better and what support they actually need. How can we make sure we are capturing the incremental stories and the impact we are having over time?” Now comes the hard work of building meaningful and authentic relationships.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The key to maximizing community impact is making sure everyone in the organization is pulling in the same direction. Management philosophy is stuck in the past. Every manager knows the value of teamwork. Management philosophy for today. Work requirements often changed before the team could even complete the work.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s official: Blackbaud will shut down and cease all support for Luminate CRM (LCRM) on June 30, 2022. While this information might not come as a surprise, there is a clear path forward for your technology strategy as it relates to managing your constituents. Summer 2021 – Begin Discovery and Assess Data Conversion.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

From the urban demonstration projects of the historic foundations (Kellogg, Ford, Carnegie) to the contemporary emphasis on indicators and evaluation work, the sector has increasingly embraced systematic and intentional research processes for advancing social change goals. Trajectory thinking is actually more useful for knowledge success.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Instead what would it look like if everyone on staff, especially leadership, actively participated in furthering the organization’s mission online? Staff have to see the impact of their voice being added to the conversation. What if the executive director tweeted about the upcoming gala? So where to begin?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

A great change management technique, build (or re-engineer) your policies in a collaborative way.? Having gift acceptance policies enables d evelopment leadership to nicely say “great suggestion but it doesn’t match our organizational policies, instead are you interested in this other mission – centric project ? ”

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. How do we determine which data matters in the first place, and how that data will impact the direction of our work?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You likely already have an idea of the kind of support you’re looking for. Major giving and prospect research support. Internal support, like for accounting or HR. Nonprofits generally don’t partner with consultants year-round for ongoing support with all of their operations. Zobrio – Financial & Accounting Support.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. We’ll summarize a few key takeaways and point to some resources that might be helpful as you think through the impact of this technology. Is it just a fad?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Also last week, Stephanie McAuliffe shared an article by Bill Traynor called " Vertigo and the Intentional Inhabitant: Leadership in a Connected World " and here's an attempt to weave these ideas together. If we overbuild, it will require more resources to support and be that much harder to deconstruct.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Today’s Q&A is with Barbara Newhouse, CEO of The Children’s Heart Foundation , where she is using her experience and lessons learned to create strengths from organizational challenges and rebuild a brand that staff, board, supporters, and volunteers can trust. It will have huge impact on the future. A: This makes me laugh.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption".

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

In part one of our Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org blog series, we explored long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices related to staffing your Salesforce instance. Change Management: Managing the change within the project lifecycle or overall organization.

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