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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. Be patient.

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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 She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.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

sgEngage

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? How big is the problem? What is the impact of the problem?

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Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

sgEngage

Grants managers are adept problem solvers. These migrations slow us down considerably and distract us from the high-risk compliance and risk-mitigation work primary to our grants manager job descriptions. Writing RFPs and managing technology migrations detract from grants managers’ ability to process grants.

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6 Ways to Harness Your CRM Solution as a Change Management Tool

Connection Cafe

Enabling CRM users to make changes, run queries, and find the information they need by themselves, saves time, and avoids information bottlenecks. Make sure they get proper training and support so that they’re confident entering data and making changes. Harnessing your CRM solution as a change-management tool.

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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

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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Combatting Innovation Creep

sgEngage

These scenarios happen all the time and can be incredibly frustrating for IT managers, especially when your current tech stack already has a similar tool—which the colleague has forgotten about or never completed training on—or the suggested software cannot integrate properly with your other systems.

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