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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

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Depending on the size, reach, and impact anticipated from a technology change, engaging the board of directors is often critical to your success. While the C-level and managers will probably lead your organization’s tech selection, you can think of the board as the ultimate executive sponsor. Focus on improving your operations.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals.

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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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These functions put facts in the hands of CEOs, boards of directors, and any other leader who, in an increasingly competitive environment, must take off their rose-colored glasses and see that their pet pony is actually a nag. How the organization’s value proposition needed to change. And what might that be?

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Change Management = Changing Mindset

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Recognizing the need for change is easy. All of this is change. The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. Now as the Director of Finance at the school, my office is housed in the development department, where all the inner workings of ICCP take place.

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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

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Your Executive Director, your board of directors, or even your colleagues may have different priorities, preferences, or perspectives on what information you need to collect. If your application has not changed in more than three years, it may not reflect your current goals, strategies, or priorities.

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You're invited to NTEN's inaugural Leading Change Summit in San Francisco

NTEN

After over a decade of convening our signature annual Nonprofit Technology Conference, we are excited to unveil and invite you to our inaugural Leading Change Summit in San Francisco on September 3-6. For attendees, the Leading Change Summit experience begins when you register. We hope to see you in San Francisco this September!

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To BYOD or Not to BYOD: One IT Director's Take

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Director of Technology Infrastructure. BYOD Change Management Infrastructure Leadership leadership buy-in Mobile nonprofit technology policies nptech Organizational Culture Policy staff buy-in technology policies IT Staff' Darren Schoen. Broward Center for the Performing Arts. You need to be prepared for the BYOD conversation.