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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. This is a proactive change.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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How a Project Charter Can Help You Have a Successful Fund Accounting Software Implementation

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Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. A well-developed project charter can help to keep stakeholders aligned from the onset, avoid common risks and pitfalls, and ensure that you’re making the most effective use of your resources.

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When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong 

Candid

A successful nonprofit strategy is all about getting critical resource decisions right to achieve organizational goals. In addition, we will share several of our organization’s free educational and planning resources to support your efforts throughout this piece. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

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This can cause problems when tasks fall through the cracks or emails go to inboxes that no longer exist. As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule.

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5 Tips for Community Health Centers to Transition to New Fund Accounting Software

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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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Change Management = Changing Mindset

sgEngage

By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. Yes, there was support for change, but the most challenging part of this entire project would be the change management component.