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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

sgEngage

Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?”

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Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yes, it has been a year of challenge and change. But at Salesforce.org, every day we work to create change in the world — to help overcome challenges and improve people’s lives everywhere. It has been a year of challenge and change. At the end of last year, I reflected on the idea of resilience.

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Unconscious Whiteness in Philanthropy: Week 1 Reflections

John Kenyon

Multi-racial organizing is needed for any kind of long-term change in racial justice work. Still, all-white spaces provide an important place to ask questions and learn without unintentionally harming People of Color. The work that is happening is helping to change the way philanthropy works for the better. – Hope.

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

sgEngage

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. Learning, we do naturally.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Overnight Reflection.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.