sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

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. Rely on record fields such as “added by,” “changed by,” or “changed by date” in your software’s query tool.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The assessments reveal some undeniable benefits to these structures, including volunteers with profound pride in the historical contributions by these entities, remarkable dedication of council leaders, sincere interest in recruiting new volunteers, and a deep passion for the organization’s mission. A Path to Change.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Website personalization is the process by which individualized, relevant and targeted content is created to suit a user’s online experience. Decide what will change based on user segmentation and where this will occur on the website. One effective way is to take an agile approach to change management.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Fonteva’s breadth of functionality gives your organization the capability to manage every aspect of the membership experience, from core elements like processing renewals to simplifying complex business processes like dual membership programs. On the technical side, data architecture is key to implementing Fonteva effectively.

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Service Management System Tech 52

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Website personalization is the process by which individualized, relevant, and targeted content is created to suit a user’s online experience. Decide what will change based on user segmentation and where this will occur on the website. Establish new digital governance and implement change management.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. By leveraging technology and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt to rising demands with the financial flexibility to thrive. Inadequate Processes. Shifting Needs.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Change is scary. Change is hard. Change is inevitable. That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively.

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Change Management Change Management Nonprofit 52

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Through continual improvement of your organizational processes, you can harness the technology to be more productive, even in the face of functionality flaws in your systems. What is Technology Process Improvement? When you're working in Excel, and go looking for a function to do a three-step process in one step, you are doing TPI.

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Process Technology Raise Fund 92

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. This centralization allows nonprofits to process and organize data from multiple places so that it’s easy to understand and use altogether.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

My experience since I started working in the social media field is that the failures are where you learn the most as a community manager, a social media manger, a change manger, a professional and as a person. Leaders often blame change managers or teams who do not control the source or circumstances which cause the “failure.”

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. By leveraging technology and streamlining processes, your organization can adapt to rising demands with the financial flexibility to thrive. But that also presented a challenge.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 52

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Typically, it takes someone seeing a situation that needs to change and doing the work to change it. Once you include these voices and understand the value their perspectives bring to your decision-making process, you can approach the women, girls, and femmes of color in your community as partners, and see them worthy of investment.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Why is the role necessary?

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

It locks that organization into a static workflow that can only be changed by hiring cost-prohibitive engineers to make updates to the system’s code. Because you’re purchasing a system whose underlying structure is the same for all users, implementation can take less than a month. Updates to the system are typically free.

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Software Grant System Industry 85

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The way we think about experience has changed. Value chains have changed. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. And even change management is changing as well. And even change management is changing as well.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection. Let Experts Guide You The decision-making process for website redesign projects can be complex and sometimes overwhelming. Need help with a website project?

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Open Source License Drupal Platform 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Every manager knows the value of teamwork. The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. This structure is derived from the industrial age when mass production transformed the workplace. It has been the foundation of organizational structure for the last 100 years.

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Structure Leadership Team Phase 97

Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Conducting formalized purchasing processes represents an essential aspect of any business seeking to maximize return on investments and improve organizational outcomes. Cloud for Good recently sat down with BWF’s Jason Boley, Senior Vice President of Systems and Operations, to discuss the value and best processes of the RFP process.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. The good news is that the myth that you can't make systemic change quickly is just that, a myth. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games.

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Game Education Change Classroom 60

Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Some of the findings in this year’s survey included the importance of having leaders with digital experience, the connection between well-structured teams and outcomes, the challenges in restructuring digital teams, and the gap between the value organizations place on supporter engagement and how they are prioritizing managing and tracking it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In the first rectangle, I sketched out one version of how our organization could be structured. After an hour, I had 12 different versions of our staff structure, each in its own little box. But I resisted structure. I was wary of too much process. Our team deserved a new structure that sustained and empowered them.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

A commodity is a technology that is transactional in nature and may improve your efficiency but does not fundamentally change your business. How can we change our process to use our CRM better? Is our current database meeting our data, tracking and process needs? Do we have the right tools to fundraise?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2013

Examples may include complete technology changes or large system upgrades, strategic organizational planning with a third party consultant outfit or process restructuring (i.e. deciding to completely revamp your donor management process or General Ledger coding structure in the Business and Development Office).

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

In this webinar series, full of case studies and expert insights, you'll get the keys to change the way your nonprofit works today. Innovation is a way of thinking, a culture, as much as it is a process. Having a structure that can identify break-through solutions and test them quickly is more important than the ideas themselves.

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Digital Myspace Case Study Org 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

FOLKS is our network management motto and stands for the following: F ( form follows function): We want to build only the level of structure and formality that we need to do the job—no more and no less. Tags: change management working wikily. O ( open architecture is best): We try to build forms (i.e.,

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Social Media Adopt Share Media 95

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

Consider, for example, that your constituent management system is a LTR (Long Term Relationship) whereas other systems and technologies may change faster, and services agreements may need to be rebid quite frequently – perhaps annually. So, let’s start with the core constituent management and transactional system.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

End-users ask, “can we make changes to the ‘out of the box’ software to meet specific needs?” Complex configurations or business process changes that still use the standard software. Changes to the underlying product that can only be made by the vendor. ” The answer is typically “yes.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 5, 2021

When you enact a governance framework, you can improve collaboration, gain organizational buy-in from stakeholders across levels, streamline business processes, and reduce risk. Change Management: Managing the change within the project lifecycle or overall organization. Why Does Governance Matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. It isn’t about content, although that is important. Hashtag Stats.

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Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

Now, with Neon CRM and Neon Websites, they’ve radically simplified their workflow: When a person makes a donation, it’s processed through Neon Pay, they’re thanked right away, and the information is synced to Neon CRM and QuickBooks automatically. Can you provide an overview of Neon One’s onboarding process?

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Yes, nonprofits can use Salesforce for program, grant, donor, case and membership management, as well as for marketing. The Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud is a cloud based CRM created to help nonprofits streamline their processes and workload, and grow their organizations through meaningful data. Why do nonprofits use Salesforce?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Tax-exempt organizations have seen significant changes to financial accounting and reporting standards in recent years. This article and infographic provides tips for getting started with compliance change management. Maintain a clear accountability structure. How much will your current business processes be impacted?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

They don't like things to change. Of course, if you have a big dream, that's really going to change things in their world, and they don't like that. The e-book takes you through a process of visioning for your business and helps you come up with your action plan and goals around your business in a creative way that works for you.

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Brain Life Artist Advice 41

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This post will cover key considerations after you’ve thoroughly defined the project, secured sponsorship, and documented risks: getting the right people and team structure in place, managing changes to the project, and preparing the user population for a successful go-live. Scope Creep.

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