Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

By Dr. Allison Quintanilla Plattsmier , CFRE, CNP, CNC, Executive Director of the Jordan Thomas Foundation and Owner of AQP Consulting. There is a higher website conversion rate and donors stay on the website longer because of more opportunities to engage with the software. Bloomerang is super conversion friendly.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

Jessamine Chin Director, VMWare Foundation Who She Is: As Director of the VMware Foundation, Jessamine Chin leads engagement for VMware's 20,000+ employees and heads their worldwide, social impact programs. A: We often start the conversation with the “solution”—meaning we start with the talent and go in search of a problem.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Often, such initiatives come from the top down and start with the board of directors. They feel valued and respected for who they are and what they bring to the conversation. After all, conversations about race, ethnicity, LGBTQIA, and inclusion can be uncomfortable and difficult. Christal M.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2021

After all, y’all said so in the three interviews we had with the staff, Executive Director, and the Board of Directors. Conversation after conversation led to the same conclusion: We were exhausted yet committed to sharing our truths with the hopes that they would inspire change. . So, what happened?

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BoardAssist

JUNE 3, 2014

Melissa Mendes Campos, of California’s La Piana Consulting, shares her very useful thoughts on this topic in a terrific guest post this week. Let’s Talk About Succession Planning: Getting the Conversation Started. Starting the Conversation about Succession Planning. The hard part is getting the conversation started.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Stephanie Skryzowski, Founder and CEO, 100 Degrees Consulting. Elizabeth Marenakos, Director of Product Marketing, Blackbaud. SPEAKER: Jason Kelliher, Principal Consultant with Customer Success Services, Blackbaud. SPEAKER: Lisa Tacker, Director of IT and CRM Systems Specialist, Two Ten Footwear Foundation.

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Blue Fox

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Sheehan will speak on how to have meaningful financial conversations with a nonprofit board of directors. Dubbed by her clients as a nonprofit numbers guru, Sheehan will speak on how to have meaningful financial conversations with a nonprofit board of directors using the latest and greatest financial technology.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Brent Gibson, Chief Health Officer at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and Managing Director of NCCHC Resources, Inc. Joey Knecht, CEO and Managing Director at Proteus.co, recommends that leaders turn away from politics and toward business. They’re allowing the members to drive the conversation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Cabral, MA, CFRE, MFIA , founder of Development Consulting Services , which serves both fundraising professionals and executive directors new to fundraising, wanting to excel in their fundraising role, or advance in their career. By Robin L.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

During these interviews, you (or a consultant) will ask questions to gauge your stakeholders’ thoughts and opinions on your campaign’s objectives, initial fundraising goal, potential concerns, and the campaign’s overall feasibility. In this traditional approach, an outside consultant completely conducts the study for you.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. It’s easy for employees to be “too busy” to take on a complex new partnership. Circulate the feedback broadly.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here are four of our conversation takeaways we hope will benefit your organization: 1. As an Executive Director it is huge to not have to spend tens of thousands of dollars on outside consultants just to make sure things don’t break with every upgrade. Bruce Moe, Executive Director, MSTA. Custom software is expensive.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). If you’ve been waiting for an invitation to the data conversation, this is it. We hope you will join us in continuing the conversation. Elizabeth Kane, Managing Director, Core Services, MacArthur Foundation.

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sgEngage

JUNE 14, 2022

Tracy Dodge is the director of student information and registrar at Washington International School, where she oversees the student information system, learning management system, and other integrated solutions. In this session, Hiram Cuevas, director of information systems and academic technology at St.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

One of a board member’s main roles—while rarely discussed—is to support the executive director (ED). For help understanding this complex relationship, we turned to nonprofit consultant and author Susan Schaefer in this week’s blog. Is Your Board Properly Supporting Your Executive Director.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2021

Conversational Marketing: Using Chatbots to Support Your Nonprofit’s Mission. Research shows that the average conversion rate on a website is generally around ~1%, which means that a lot of the hard work that is put into creating good content isn’t resulting in the right amount of user engagement. Read the full description.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Think about that for a moment — we have over 300 consulting and product partners that are serving thousands of organizations and institutions globally. We’re also thrilled to bring together several special guests for keynotes and fireside chat conversations! Senior Director, Global Partner Engagement, Salesforce.org.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Stephanie Skryzowski, Founder and CEO, 100 Degrees Consulting. Elizabeth Marenakos, Director of Product Marketing, Blackbaud. Leading research and consulting firm Gartner recently published 10 opportunities for the CFO to accelerate their organization’s digital transformation. Keynote Conversation with Glennon Doyle.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. No AIs were used, consulted, or harmed in generating this summary of our bbcon session. See you at #bbcon. We also have t-shirts for the best audience-submitted prompts). *No

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2021

In today’s episode, Deb Taft, CEO of Lindauer and Luis Morales, senior director of information strategy at Ann & Robert H. The operations team can create value by enriching conversations.”. I encourage my team to work as an internal consulting company with different business units in the foundation are our clients.”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Join these K–12 luminaries for a genuine conversation on building school culture and thriving in a time of significant change: Ray Cross, Director of Enrollment Management and Financial Aid/Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at St. How are we keeping staff and faculty engaged when burnout and recession loom?

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Some foundation executive directors form peer coaching circles with other Eds to help each other meet specific challenges or embrace new opportunities. When funders come together and share insights from reading grant applications and from conversations with local nonprofits, they see patterns and trends emerge.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

In our Thought Leadership Spotlight, we’ll be hosting a conversation about organizational resilience and embracing a digital-first future. Panel participants for our international audience include: Hanna Thomas, Principal Consultant, Align. Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace International. Because it’s Free!

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

Related read: How to Engage Your Board of Directors in Financial Conversations ] Let’s inspire your board members, keep them engaged and boost their productivity! Services range from standard bookkeeping and payroll services to coaching and consulting, to comprehensive virtual CFO services.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This might be your organization’s event manager for the volunteers executing your yearly fundraisers, the Executive Director working with their Board Members on the program’s initiatives, or your Grant Writer coordinating the organization’s program funding goals. Try to keep discussions to relevant project conversations.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

That includes the CEO or executive director and the board of directors. They will not shy away from difficult conversations and assess how they, as individuals, might need to change their own thinking. Leadership: DEI Starts at the Top. 2. Internal Processes: Grantmakers Must Look Inward. Build a Peer Network.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2021

Are there certain trends you’re noticing online or in conversation? . Author information Madison Gonzalez Advancement Director at Morning Light, Inc. She is also the Advancement Director at Morning Light, Inc., She is also the Advancement Director at Morning Light, Inc., Madison can be reached at madison@toldcoaching.com.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

Slack helps us achieve this,” says Will Calvert, director of technology and enablement at RMIT Online. People’s Action’s volunteer leaders work as moderators of these channels to make sure that any volunteer that needed help received assistance as soon as possible to keep conversations with potential voters going.

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Nucleus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

He realized that their necessary first step was agreement on definitions and key terms – basic yet powerful data governance (and infrastructure that supports this) allows for consistent reporting, apples-to-apples conversations across departments, and is a first step in what ACOG thinks of as “data enablement.” They chose the latter.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. Successful datamaking helps us put equity and dialectics into practice.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

During BBCON, Rosita Bradham, a Principal Consultant from Blackbaud , and Jeffrey Lieb, Principal Consultant at Jeffrey Lieb Consulting, took on the issue of taking people who have interacted with your organization once and turning them into subscribers or members. As you know, getting more donors is easier said than done.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 15, 2021

a non-profit consulting firm in its 26th year. Through the years I’ve seen many development directors spend time and effort on acquiring new donors. a consulting firm dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations with strategies, communication and resource development. Ryan Strawhecker, incoming President, Paul J. And rightly so.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

If you serve on a nonprofit Board, are the executive director for a nonprofit, or are responsible for raising funds for your nonprofit, The Nonprofit Fundraising Solution , book by Laurence A. Pagnoni has spent more than 25 years in the nonprofit sector as a fundraising consultant and as executive director of three nonprofit organizations.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Since 2008, extensive research and conversations have revealed the state of women in nonprofit careers. Join Peggy Morrison Outon, Executive Director of the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management on a journey through this research and story-driven project , and help bring this issue the attention it needs to become a movement!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news. First, a reassurance--I'm not ending the blog.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a team, we discussed opportunity areas that emerged from our early conversations with the Community Fellows. Senior Consultant, Slalom. Today, she uses her consulting skills and ethnographic experience to help clients on their sustainability journeys. What Ideas Were Generated? Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Emma Visman. Imelda Awino.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Choose a board of directors A nonprofit’s board of directors is a governing body typically made up of unpaid volunteers who set policies, determine strategic priorities, and provide oversight. Having a clear corporate structure limits the individual liability of your nonprofit’s leaders, employees, and board of directors.

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