Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Along with access to the latest version, ChatGPT 4 Turbo, which is the most intelligent model available at the time of writing, it also provides access to an array of additional tools. 2) Master the Art of Prompting Prompting is the language we use to communicate with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

If your membership numbers are marching into the red, you and your team are probably focused on trying to identify the cause of the bleeding. Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined. From the beginning of her tenure at ENA, Nancy has made building a positive culture a priority.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These important team members give their time, talents, and resources, unmotivated by financial compensation or contractual obligations. Regardless of the number of volunteers, having a thriving team requires intentionality on the part of key leadership to minimize the reasons why volunteers leave. Team building. Share the love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. ” We ask our staff and team , aimed at strengthening connections and boosting performance. Therefore, we need to recognize and respect this dynamic as we lead and support our teams.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Taking the right approach can go a long way to helping your team ease into this new style of operating. Remove the barriers that compartmentalize strategy and keep your talent from being a real team. To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. It’s a choice.”

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

We were living in the midst of cultural, technological, and economic instability long before the pandemic. CEOs must be role models for their teams. In the past, resilience, like culture building, may have been viewed as a “soft” skill because the qualities that are involved don’t directly impact the bottom line.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

You might not be able to pick your team, but there are plenty of circumstances that you can control. Once you know who is needed, you must explain exactly what the organization expects from their service both in terms of activities and culture. Cultivate Diversity. Set Expectations. This seems obvious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

Is culture of philanthropy embedded in the way that everyone does their work? What is a culture of philanthropy? It is all about how to nurture a nonprofit organizational culture that has shared responsibility for fundraising among all of its people. But, does your entire organization treat it this way?

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling. If data is saved on a team member’s personal drive, or worse, doesn’t exist at all, your association’s data is not going to be accessible when you need it. Sound familiar?

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fusionSpan

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A deep-rooted passion for venturing into uncharted territories, delving into diverse cultures, and embracing novel experiences has been with me since my adolescence. He was the epitome of knowledge and an exemplary role model. How has your career grown since joining the team? What are some of your hobbies or interests?

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

The team is using the new analytics software to plan more effective outreach initiatives. Unfortunately, despite the hefty price tag, the mechanics are meaningless without the philosophy, strategy, and culture that maximizes those tools. Your CMS, LMS, and AMS are chatting happily together. Is there more to accomplish?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Filled with relatable case studies from top-performing individuals and companies—including Tim Cook, Starbucks, and Microsoft—Briceño lays out crisp, clear tactics for constant learning that will take your team to the next level and create a culture of high performance. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Authentic engagement.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspired by more than 40 years of collaboration with private school leaders, Blackbaud has created a track of sessions for ATLIS 2024 , the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools’ annual conference. Can we spread this work beyond our departments and be catalysts for vibrant cultures of belonging?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

With limited people and financial resources, leaders of nonprofit organizations must execute strong management styles that develop the talent of their teams, foster healthy working environments and encourage retention of valuable employees. Lack of professionalism and high turnover rates can dissuade high-performers from joining the team.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Organizations that treat culture like an impromptu party will see their “guests” leave early. Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. The leadership team began by discussing the issues.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Looking at these trends, they discuss strategies on how to best lead the new workforce including: Understand the New Habits of Your Workers and Share Vulnerability : due to accelerated changes, there is a gap where leaders no longer have all of the skills needed but must still run their team. Healthy cultures lead to employee engagement.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Internally, organizations should embrace a collaborative leadership model because it feeds a positive culture to both their staff and their stakeholders. Externally, this culture can help agencies work and communicate more efficiently together.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Now’s the perfect time for us to take a step back and celebrate the team that has built Nimble AMS over the last decade. . It’s been pretty amazing getting to see the different aspects of our development process as well as so many talented teams. Prior to Nimble AMS, I started out as a member of the QA team. And, are we ever.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Leadership approaches such as Servant, Transformational or Team-based have been proven successful. Create a culture dedicated to employee well-being.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” or, “What are the actual actions we can take to realize our vision of a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion?” Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard.

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What we’ve seen across all organizations, regardless of size, is that digital teams—their structure, leadership, and how they are affected by the culture of the institutions where they work—are the biggest predictor of online effectiveness. Very few digital teams still report to IT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 27, 2021

We’ve had to adapt our communication and collaboration styles in this new remote work environment, and that’s meant more meetings, more instant messages, and more interruptions throughout the day. Read on to learn what your leadership team can do to support boundaries and avoid burnout. . Model the Boundaries You Want to See.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2012

The Collaboration Imperative is a totally cool book. It may just be the model for many books to come – full of 60-second end-of-chapter wraps, bold graphics, Q&A’s with real-world business leaders, case studies, and lots of ways to test yourself along the way. Trust anchors every successful collaborative team.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

One critical component is entirely within your control: how you manage your teams and set them up for success. To build that trust, develop a strategic plan and share it regularly with your team. Get back to the human element of what the team does. Establish solidarity within your team. Spend time with your officers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Last year also brought with it civil unrest, a rise in the call for social justice, and decentering of white supremacy culture. Employees are expecting authenticity, transparency, flexibility and collaboration from their leaders, characteristics of which are not typically written into crisis management plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

This recognition of humanity is significant—I myself paused a team meeting yesterday when I noticed one of my colleagues was especially quiet and asked what was up. When leaders admit to their own challenges instead of portraying a strong and stoic model of unshakability (on the outside), teams grow together, not apart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2018

A Culture of Wellbeing as a New Nonprofit Strength: Building Capacity During a Time of Disruption – guest post by Heather McLeod Grant, Adene Sacks, & Kate Wilkinson. Social change leaders are tasked with doing what they have always done and collaborating more readily, while under threat, and at the current speed of change.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits?

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

For example, across East Africa, our teams work with Youth Champions to elevate awareness of the drivers of hunger, including the climate crisis, conflict, and chronic inequality. The champions transform local attitudes and behaviors related to nutrition, help foster collaboration, and engage decision-makers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 11, 2022

Create a healthy team environment that personifies your organization’s values and is supportive and collaborative. Lead inclusively by modeling it for others and creating a culture of equity. Embrace authenticity and bringing your whole self to work. “By

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