Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In honor of Labor Day, this blog—the first in a two-part series—offers insights into the various roles that unions play within the social sector, based on data from available recent tax filings (2016 and on). . Unions create processes of accountability around workplace concerns. What is a union? . Unions are both local and national.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2023

By designing emails with clear and well-structured content, nonprofit organizations can ensure that everyone can engage in important conversations, receive essential information, and participate in your mission. Stay vigilant as WCAG standards change over time: Digital accessibility standards are always changing with evolving technologies.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“Change is inevitable, growth is an option.” – John C. It’s no secret that as a global society we’ve had a few changes thrown at us in the last few years. Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. All About Change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

Fundraising teams at the eye of the pandemic storm have experienced an eye-watering pace of change the past two years. The stark impossibility of maintaining the status quo, and the limitations of clunky manual processes were harshly brought to light. Major donor and corporate engagements turned virtual overnight.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

As a nonprofit leader guiding your staff through changes over the last two years, you might have investigated change management. Change management is a set of tools and techniques your nonprofit can use to build buy-in and support staff members as you lead an organizational change.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

She was talking about how unprepared we were for the dramatic changes we experienced. Back on earth, our discussion centered on this question: How is the role of associations in society changing and is it expanding, contracting, or being completely reshaped? That’s a major change. Trust has declined in every sector.

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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. This document will help new team members absorb your unique grantmaking process and keep everyone on the same page.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Martech changes overnight. You can build more collaborative teams.

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frontstream

AUGUST 21, 2023

Nonprofit organizations play a crucial role in tackling social issues and creating positive change in their communities. But tracking progress and ensuring long-term sustainability can be challenging without a well-structured nonprofit evaluation and goal-setting process.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. A Path to Change. Using data from their own assessments and from the field, they are making the case for change to staff and to volunteers.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Overcome Inertia Innovation can be stifled by thorough approval cycles, long hierarchical structures, and outdated attitudes, often prevalent in nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2024

Unmasking the myths Myth 1: “Too much process and structure make us feel too much like a business.” Let’s focus on the benefits of being structured and efficient in our work. Board members need to understand their roles better to work together just right—neither too much nor too little.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

At their core, advisory committees are groups of individuals who are stakeholders in your nonprofit’s work and who want to play a role in ensuring you achieve maximum impact. Create structure. Structure is crucial to developing and sustaining an effective advisory committee. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

While many changes have been positive, others have been more challenging for both leaders and employees. However, another 33% changed the size of their organization based on increased demand, and almost half (48%) of those surveyed expected to add employees in the next 12 months, with 72% of U.S.-based

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds. In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Every change, every burst of creativity, begins with the identification of a problem or opportunity that somebody finds meaningful. Let’s begin with some practical strategies, including ground rules, defined roles, supplies, and tools. Define roles for each participant. In this role she will… Today, Cynthia will be the recorder.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

These donors had various motives for supporting abolition, however it rarely involved creating an equitable society that included Black people nor supported continual policy and societal change. Philanthropic efforts for the Black community haven’t changed much since the abolitionist movement.

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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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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

From Birth to Adolescence in the Nonprofit Lifecycle The process of creating an organization is messy, painful, sometimes almost tragic ( tragic flaws are as common here as in Shakespeare). If you understand the process in those terms, it might be possible to avoid some of the pitfalls, or at least, take comfort in their necessity.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In this kind of grantmaking, we often see people who are historically excluded from philanthropic decisions joining the process. Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups.

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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. They also help to clarify where a role fits into the collective organization. What is the Purpose of the Role? What is the Purpose of the Role?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 14, 2023

This role fosters collaboration and open communication within the team so that the group achieves project alignment and coordination of all members. Their role helps the whole group stay organized, informed, and empowered to do their best. They keep all stakeholders informed about progress, setbacks, and changes in direction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Defining Roles. Photo by Trav Williams.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

7 Things Your Association Strategy Should Include Mapping out a strategy for your membership association isn’t a one-time process. Get all of your nonprofit’s stakeholders involved in this process. Develop a Public Relations Plan Advocacy is about being the voice of change. If it doesn’t, then your organization won’t last.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

But many Advisory Boards sit idle, with members not knowing their role and organizations not knowing what to do with the Board they created. Advisory members serve mainly in an advisory capacity though there are other roles they can assume. And it all happened because of the Advisory Board. Raising an Organization’s Profile.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

With an ever-changing landscape of fundraising, economic conditions, and tactics for expanding mission-related programming, finding time for IRS tax reporting and filing 990 Series returns can be beyond challenging. Tax compliance can be an intimidating topic, so in this article, we’ll be re-framing the process. and others.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

This centralization allows nonprofits to process and organize data from multiple places so that it’s easy to understand and use altogether. However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0 Call this “social change 2.0”. just strategy, or just process facilitation, or just fundraising). Our goal was to draw on the collective wisdom in the room to discuss emerging solutions and strategies to the shared challenges of this new approach to social change.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.” Using Infrastructure to Drive Change.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Without a handbook, volunteers may feel disconnected and unsure of their role and responsibilities because once training is over, there are no materials for them to reference later. You also need a targeted recruiting process, an onboarding process, an orientation, volunteer management practices, and volunteer recognition.

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Candid

JULY 11, 2023

There is promising evidence that philanthropy is changing to be more responsive to the needs and priorities of communities. At the forefront of your process, you should be transparent about why and how you will use demographic data to inform grantmaking decisions. Embrace learning.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. ” And you’re inviting them to join that process.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent).

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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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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Can a screen reader process this content? Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. We understand now that everyone has a role to play. Because the process was more inclusive, the website we developed better-addressed audience needs.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. This plays a crucial role in setting the direction and strategy of an organization, and can help to ensure that the organization is serving the needs of the community.

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