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When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong 

Candid

Additionally, it should build on the unique skills and capabilities the organization brings to a community or field. 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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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs A Holistic Operations Consultant

Bloomerang

If your organization needs to improve its grant writing skills, it is likely you are only going to seek grant writing consulting. 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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Migrating Your Government Services to Digital: Getting Started

Forum One

By understanding your staff needs and their skills in tandem with understanding how modernization will help achieve your mission, you are more apt to create a system that staff can use to be more effective, efficient, and happy. In this post, we will focus on the “people” element of your organization’s digital modernization. Focus on people.

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Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

Use surveys or conduct interviews with your donors, or ideal prospects, on a continuous basis to gain insight on what your donors want and where your organization can improve. Developing a change management plan ensures you’re never reliant on one person to do certain jobs. . Discover what you do best, and then do it better. .

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What To Do When Your Admin Costs Rise

Connection Cafe

Cross-training an existing employee to fill a new or additional role almost always represents less up-front expense to your organization than advertising the position, interviewing candidates, conducting background checks, and so on through the new-hire process. Which leads directly to my next point…. Ensure Your Employees Are Flexible.

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Meeting Today’s Challenges: Why Your Organization Needs a Modern CFO

sgEngage

What to Look for in Your Modern CFO Here are the top six things to look for—and interview questions to ask—when hiring a modern CFO for your nonprofit. Interview Question: Explain how you handle revenue recognition for multi-year restricted grants.

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Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? What was your approach? Did it work?