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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. It also details new policies, such as a new donor management approach, priority service areas, and the organization’s business model. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan?

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

Most recently, we took a critical step in our climate action plan by including climate as a part of the company public policy platform, joining priorities like equal rights and privacy and security. “We org’s local chapters are utilizing uniquely-built Salesforce instances to suit the needs of each team.

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Why I Love the Caltech Y

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The talk was hosted by the Caltech Y, as well as by the local chapter of NetImpact and the alumni association, as part of their Social Activism Speaker Series (SASS). I was particularly fond of the talk series, where important policy makers and leaders would come to Caltech and talk to 15 or 20 people at the Y and drink Mountain Chablis!

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Educating the Board of Directors and Reviewing Internal Policies (internal): By reviewing internal policies to make sure they are up-to-date with societal trends, the organization can be sure they accurately reflect their work in the current landscape of social issues.

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ll hear from our new chapters about how they are assembling like-minded people in their communities to get together and talk about how to make social change. That’s what chapters and what this annual Summit provide. We’ll also hear from policy makers and activists working to change laws and unleash capital for social enterprises.

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Content Curation Is Listening and Engaging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). If you take a look at Bruce Lesley’s Twitter stream , you will see that he is curating information on public policies impacting children.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. And I would say that yes, and there are also opportunities to incorporate give/get policies.