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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: 4 Tips to Shape Your Future

sgEngage

Examine your operations, structure, and team. Work with an experienced consultant on your strategic plan. That’s where a nonprofit strategic planning consultant comes into play. A consultant brings an outsider’s perspective to the table, helping you see your own blind spots.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position. Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals.

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So You Want to Be a Consultant?

Robert Weiner

So You Want to Be a Consultant? Important tip: The zip/thumb drive that came in the conference packet has a nice hand-out full of consulting-specific links, so be sure to open that zip! Sarah’s list of necessary skills for consultants: Product management. She’s sees her self primarily as an educator in this role.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. When I proposed the concept of “datamaking,” I was seeking to bring as many aspects of the organization together as possible. Fast forward to today….

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

Two years ago, a long-time volunteer “retired” from her position with the ceramics program, giving another volunteer an opportunity to transition to that role. The new leader’s fresh approach included revamping the operational structure of the program, dividing, and sharing leadership responsibilities with two additional volunteers.