sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Assemble relevant accounts and data to highlight the processes you want to simplify and problems you want to solve with new software. The benefit of tracking in your financial software is that you can determine revenue per visit and cost per visit, making it easy to identify business problems such as lagging locations or providers.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Does it solve a unique problem, or does it solve it more effectively than the software we currently have? Make thoughtful changes While you should monitor trends and explore new technology, it’s critical t43o have a process to vet software, guard against redundancies, and ensure existing tools are being used as intended.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Working in the nonprofit sector is hard. And salaries in many nonprofit organizations can’t compete with the for-profit sector. According to The Council of Nonprofits 2023 Nonprofit Workforce Survey , almost three quarters of nonprofits that completed the survey have current openings at their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Session topics include: Supporting Effectiveness sessions explore how grantmakers can improve practices to build grantee capacity and better support nonprofit sustainability. Scaling Impact sessions offer strategies and knowledge about how we can help nonprofits achieve better and more results. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit organizations look to outside experts for all kinds of reasons. Nonprofit consultants and their services can be serious game-changers for organizations. Here’s what we’ll cover: The Basics of Nonprofit Consulting. What is a nonprofit consulting firm? Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

The leaders of the nonprofits that can embrace social media can tolerate vertigo. These things should be efficient but are not, mostly because of human problems, such as poor communication, resistance to compliance, forgetfulness and so on. A five-minute problem shouldn’t take 15 minutes. Anything that can be routine should be.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Management philosophy is stuck in the past. Every manager knows the value of teamwork. The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. The problem is that with the quickly changing landscape of today’s challenges the assembly line concept is not agile enough to adapt to those changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Session topics include: Supporting Effectiveness sessions explore how grantmakers can improve practices to build grantee capacity and better support nonprofit sustainability. Scaling Impact sessions offer strategies and knowledge about how we can help nonprofits achieve better and more results. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

for the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference ? We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . But what is in the DNA of these nonprofit organizations that allows for them to embrace social media and use it successfully?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Earlier this year I released the 2018 Nonprofit Digital Teams Report in partnership with Jason Mogus, principal consultant at NetChange Consulting. As nonprofit organizations work to find the best ways to organize their digital programs, the desire to restructure is persistent. The Team Restructure Trap. The Engagement Gap.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Philanthropy loves “new” things. But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle.

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NTEN

AUGUST 19, 2010

I've met a lot of nonprofit IT directors during the nearly 8(!) As technology has moved around the nonprofit, have you dug deeper moats, or are you building bridges? Tags: Change Management do something george weiner NPTech NTEN IT Staff. To me, that makes Ed a hero. . years I've been at NTEN.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2010

We're glad you get it, because we need you to help us meet OUR mission of ensuring that every nonprofit can use technology to make the change they want to see. Your instructors during the weekly core sessions will be top nonprofit leaders like Beth Kanter , Katya Andresen , and Edward Granger-Happ.

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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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. We need a culture change.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

Quinn, Idealware and Amy Wagner, MAP For Nonprofits Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford. But our research shows many nonprofits successfully use technology to innovate in more subtle ways. [Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. By Laura S.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

With advances in technology such as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud services flooding the marketplace, nonprofits feel the pressure to adapt, adopt, and innovate. According to nonprofit technology experts, successful leaders often share one proven approach to innovation: They think big but start small.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. We need a culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. I'm sure there are other change theories that lie beneath and can be used help get people on board about social media. What were the problems? | View | Upload your own.

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NTEN

JUNE 11, 2010

Everyone at every nonprofit, from the smallest to the largest, is much more aware of technology than they ever have been. Solving the issues that we are working on requires that we work across our sector to address these complex problems in equally complex ways. You feel the shift, right? Open by default.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

By George Weiner, CTO, DoSomething.org If you were building an office building for your nonprofit, when would you bring in an architect? The same holds true for lawyers, investment bankers, firemen, and doctors; their skills are not needed in day-to-day operations at the management level of a nonprofit. Solution Based Thinking.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In the nonprofit sector, we have some big challenges in this area. Most examples we have of successful IT practices would likely fail in a nonprofit context, though. Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. The problem is our information consumption —we’re indulging too much at the buffet called the web. Benefits for Nonprofits The act of content curation can actually reduce our information overload.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. The intersection of unsafe water and extreme poverty isn’t good for kids—in fact, it changes the very trajectory of their lives. Read the rest of the issue when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] I also don’t have the budget to bring in a consultant or vendor to solve every non-program problem. [Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

We have techie centers that run their nonprofits using the latest technology, and we have a few centers that don't yet have websites or even use accounting software. We were also introduced to this really cool guy, John Kenyon (you might have heard of him), who helped us solve our problem with one word: wiki.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Beyond an application in a stand-alone silo, Salesforce encouraged us to think, instead, how can Nonprofit Cloud and Education Cloud architectures utilize Slack? Nonprofit Cloud. Similarly, Dreamforce 2021 put a large focus on Slack-first development. Education Cloud. You can register at the link below. Hope to see you there.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Help support local connections with other nonprofit techies. Everyone will pledge will change one mind in their organization. We want every nonprofit to have a seat on the leadership table at organizations. They were not resistant to change, but busy. How can you shape a path for your change? Want to do more.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. End-users ask, “can we make changes to the ‘out of the box’ software to meet specific needs? Development approach.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. This article and infographic provides tips for getting started with compliance change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Tom goes on to say: I preach digital change to nonprofits every day. Tags: change management. Photo by THall.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Digital Managed Services Consultants are experienced technology professionals who lead Salesforce Marketing Cloud and/or Pardot support projects with a variety of nonprofit and higher education organizations. They are highly experienced with Marketing Cloud and/or Pardot, industry best practices, and related Salesforce products.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Saturday, October 2, 2010 Must-Read Book For Nonprofit Leaders If you lead a nonprofit organization, the one hour it will take you to read Peter F.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Flickr photo: Dom de Oliveira If you've ever implemented a technology project at a nonprofit, you know it's true: technology is 90% psychology. While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I was reading Clay Shirky’s interesting analysis of the healthcare.gov problems when I came across a word I had never seen: deontic. It refers to the feeling of duty or obligation as ethical concepts, and to me it the essence of a huge problem in organizations today. But this post isn’t a lesson in vocabulary. Not at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

I am knee deep in developing a peer learning program for Millennial leadership development in nonprofit organizations that is designed based on the research out there. CLEAR: Share more to increase both the speed and quality of decisions, reducing the load on middle management. If not, how does it need to change?

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