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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. Participants were tasked with creating a concept poster, timeline, or magazine cover to share their idea with the group.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

help to evaluate resumes of kids). Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session? If your charity has to do with music appreciation, could membership to your nonprofit get a discount on purchases or a subscription to an industry magazine or music store? Plug donor skills into the work. Miscellaneous.

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How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls. Don't Praise.

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Your Top-Secret Fundraising Tool? Empathy.

Bloomerang

She couldn’t stand the focus on metrics as the reference point against which her work was evaluated. If you can help them—especially by offering them opportunities to (1) be the change they want to see in the world, and (2) feel good about themselves —they’re more likely to help you. The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy.

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The Cirque De Soleil Model: “Entertaining” Doesn’t Have to Mean Low-Brow

Museum 2.0

Sure, Ripley’s may be the Star magazine of museums, but a lot more people read Time than the tabloids. But the point is that all of these have valid and interesting lessons to teach us about how to reach out to audiences. It’s easy to look at something like Ripley’s and think: that’s what’s the public wants. The public has moved on.

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Know When To Change Your Decision

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Know When To Change Your Decision Leaders make decisions. Good leaders are willing to modify their decisions as changing circumstances and data dictate. Often, circumstances change and new information becomes available after a decision has been made. In fact, just the opposite is true. Don't Praise.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

It's a shame that several of these projects are labeled as "experimental" and don't have formal evaluation built into their cheap, fast processes. nor Tech Virtual had formal evaluation, although both received media attention that elevated the "value" of the exhibitions in the context of their institutions. Neither Click!

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