.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. It gives you some control when the external environment is rapidly changing, and people are looking to you for leadership. Scenario planning and other decision-making frameworks are tools for managing uncertainty.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

In an environment fraught with fear mongering and skeptical potential allies, Candid persisted in enhancing Demographics via Candid. The tool will enable users to run comparative analyses on executive leadership trends by race and gender within contexts such as location, organization size, and operating budget.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

So how do you maintain the high level of board performance required to succeed in a disruptive business environment? A board matrix can be a powerful tool to point the selection process in positive directions. A buddy system helps to reinforce the culture and model the behavior that you want to promote within the organization.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

The term encompasses a wide range of tools and practices that can support an equally wide range of work and strategies. In an environment of heated rhetoric, civic and social organizations need to proactively think about strengthening relationships with audiences and collaborating from a place of trust.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, that model is being challenged. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . Those at the top decide. But what is it?

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. ENA’s commitment to bring culture to life is even expressed in the organization’s physical environment.

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Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. There are SO MANY nonprofit tools out there, all promising to make your work easier as you grow your new nonprofit. The key is to find the right tool for the right task. . Some cost a little.

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Tools Nonprofit Doc Google 105

Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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Demographics Build Social Green 98

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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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. Model the Boundaries You Want to See. This can be a great tool for your team that helps put structure around your day and workweek.

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Support Environment Model ROI 69

Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

While in-person events are beginning to open up again, many have pivoted to a hybrid learning environment. The Collaborative (Classy). About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. 2023 is a unique time for conference-goers. It’s great to have options.

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Conference Nonprofit Americorp Fort Worth 122

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. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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Results New Jersey Leadership Nonprofit 98

Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Most people are yearning for and want to provide inclusion.

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Activities Active Activism Organization 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

The new “office” is not just about work logistics; it’s about providing a worker-first environment that enables your people to flourish. Not only do those mental models not apply, but they also become a liability in a changed world. Those models, now, are a liability rather than a guide.

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Culture Leadership Generation Model 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. And that means saying goodbye to cubicles and fixed seating plans.

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Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We help the human rights movement speak truth to power, because we believe each story of human rights abuse is a tool for justice. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. Strong interest or experience with our main tools: Python and R.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Campaign Online Chapter Model 97

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Spinning off projects when they reach sustainability, and when doing so would allow them to better achieve their mission, is all part of the Benetech model. Megan Price, formerly a senior statistician at Benetech, has joined Patrick as the organization’s Co-Founder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Those that have opened themselves up to using these tools and connecting with passionate people in their networks find abundance. Here’s one story about how one free agent, a social media savvy volunteer for a local food bank, saw a problem, reached out to her network, and helped solved in collaboration with the local nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2021

Early progress is encouraging: We have established an Equity Advisory Group to help lead this work in all it is forms, as well as a Black Leadership Coalition; we are also exploring Diversity, Equity, Inclusion collaboration among community partners. We have made the transition in this new virtual environment with few pain points.

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Foundation Community Childhood Articulate 49

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

For nonprofits seeking to expand their programs, careful analysis of self and environment are crucial. Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors.

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. We are also doing far more to spread the word about technology for rights activists, often in close collaboration with major partners in the human rights field such as Human Rights Watch and WITNESS.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In this model, your organization will have no idea where the hardware actually providing your services is located -- and, better yet, you won't care. The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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Work Second Life Laptop Audio 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Autodesk ® Building Design Suite Ultimate : 3D building design software with building information modeling (BIM) and computer-aided design (CAD) tools, including AutoCAD and Revit. Guna Foundation reconstructs dynamic 3D spiritual environments to practice and preserve Tibetan Buddhism.

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Design Texas FAQ Software 36

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact.

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Practice Develop Community Boston 22

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. Group Collaboration with Feedback. Let’s dive in. . Gamification.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

The principal task of preparing organizational leaders is to provide them with the language and tools they need to be able to discern and describe network activity, the insights they need to understand network structure, and an appreciation for the vital yet often subtle tasks of managing a network’s context.

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Network Work Structure Leadership 106

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model? To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Cloud-based applications are more secure from cyberthreats than a typical nonprofit server environment is. Explore Cloud-Based Tools for Charities. Enterprise Mobility Suite — a suite of software tools that helps you manage the BYOD mobile devices that your employees and volunteers use for work. Benefit #3: Security.

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Adobe Application Charity Sharepoint 36

NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some folks may not have gotten up to speed on more recent developments, however -- and might be relying on "stale data" about open source tools: "Not ready for prime time." Learn about open source options for the tools you use. and licensing models. " "For geeks only." Current Trends.

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Open Source Open Application Oracle 88

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

Without internal expertise and real-time financial tools (such as cash flow reports or program profitability assessment), data-driven decision making is just not possible. Funders encourage and applaud their grantees for such resourcefulness and creativity, but at a certain point this model becomes unsustainable.

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Impact Nonprofit Fund Grant 89

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. It’s deeper than engagement, and longer than campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Among many insights gleaned from this week’s conference on “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” ( [link] ), one theme keeps recurring for me: the importance of grantmakers sharing power and control within broadly construed networks of collaborators in the quest for social change. The control thing is huge.

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Hawaii Washington Voice Network 91

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Each direction is very different, using a different data model (see below for lots more on that) and approach. So how is it always about the data model? Salesforce was originally just a business-to-business tool. A nonprofit typically has a very different ownership/sharing model. Maybe that’s just me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. Leaders can leverage the hybrid meeting model to change this by looking around the table and making sure all voices are seen and heard, whether participating on-screen or in-person. 50-50 Time Split: This model allows staff to work from home half the time.

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