sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”. Those at the top decide. But what is it?

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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. Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. Unfortunately, it’s the same in the nonprofit sector.

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Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 108

sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

Our recent eBook, Nonprofit Expert Insights: Culture of Innovation, shared tips, tricks, and experiences from 11 industry experts across the global nonprofit space. Collaboration: Working collaboratively is the only way to combine ideas and perspectives. Showcase attitudes, actions, and qualities you want your team to mirror.

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Culture Create eBook Attitude 84

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

You find a local nonprofit in your community that you think might be able to help you find and utilize resources relating to rental assistance. You are disappointed that the nonprofit was unprepared to serve your community, and lacked the resources and information to genuinely help. Why does DEI matter?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. Consider the services, products, or experiences that your organization could offer to generate revenue.

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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. Approach Human Resources Strategically. Build a Supportive Structure.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2023

Ultimately, this collaborative approach not only drives financial success but also cultivates long-term relationships between the nonprofit and its supporters. Team Fundraising Peer-to-peer fundraisers can also be structured to include teams. They had little financial resources to provide a stable and secure home for their kids.

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Personal Build Effective Fundraising 72

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Make it matter: Even though everyone on a nonprofit’s staff typically knows its mission well, team members’ experiences and goals can be very different – whether its seniority (entry level to executive level), department (fundraising, programmatic, finance and admin), location or another dimension of their experience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

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Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 41

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. William (Bill) Lester, NPOKI. So what do you do?

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Resource Data Aggregator Wiki 59

Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

So, how can this apply to the corporate learning environment? People can take a self-guided tour around your facilities and will think that their new employer is hip for developing such an environment for them. In conclusion, embrace this new era of technology and what we can experience in our daily lives. Gamification.

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Industry Learning Game Application 65

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. The purpose of the conference is to expose future social sector leaders to a vibrant learning experience that promotes best practices, innovative thinking and awareness of the full scope of the sector.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. In Beta companies, communication is viewed as a resource that should be harvested constantly. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 61

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what''s causing all that frustration?

Empowerment 55

Empowerment Authoring Roles Job 55

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

Business 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success.

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Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 47

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

Drawing on her vast experience as a venture capitalist, organizational design expert, and management consultant, Ardi argues that the future belongs to the Betas. In Beta companies, communication is viewed as a resource that should be harvested constantly. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

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Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 44

Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, my experience in a variety of financial leadership roles has led me to the following hypothesis: nonprofit finance is critical to mission success. The Builder constructs a: Sustainable financial structure that meets mission needs, goals, and aspirations over time. Completing the Circle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

What I love about these (youth driven, hackathon) events is the optimism, hope, raw ability and potential for a home-run in a networked tech-environment that can accelerate to tangible and scalable change in a relatively short period of time. … I love that they are going to do it with or without us. That’s not to say we don’t use objectives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

Empowerment 40

Empowerment Authoring Skills Roles 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

According to Royal and Agnew, as employees grow in experience in their roles, they begin to focus less on learning the ropes and more on achieving desired results. One-third of employees report that they do not have the resources and information they need to do their jobs well. And what's causing all that frustration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In contrast to traditional approaches, they are able to recognize and pursue new opportunities to meet socially impactful missions, while implementing funding strategies that ensure that their work has the resources needed to be effective (Praszkier & Nowak, 2011).

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects. The objects, artworks, and the traces of past experience are all part of an unfolding continuum of the living museum.

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Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Visitors' interactions allow them both to personalize their museum experiences and to engage with other visitors through their shared interests. From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. I prefer flexible space but that isn’t always possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. The event is encouraging bloggers around the web to write a post about the environment. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

As the nonprofit sector continues to grow and expand, the number of nonprofit organizations increase, funding becomes more competitive and resources become scarce. However, nonprofit leaders can combine operational and programmatic strategies through collaboration to combine resources and funding in order to increase social efforts.

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Collaboration Effective Strategy Children 40

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Our essential intention is to cultivate partnerships of grassroots women who are working at the community level on issues of environmental sustainability and social justice, so that they can really find opportunities to collaborate and to exchange best practices, exchange resources, and really build a collective agenda.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2022

Ideation—literally the formation of ideas—is at the core of Forum One’s approach to collaborative digital strategy. Explore and adapt this structure for your own internal or collaborative projects. You want to make the session as comfortable as possible and think ahead to create the most conducive environment for participants.

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