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Don’t Let Staff Turnover Affect Your Grantmaking Data Quality

sgEngage

As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule. Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual.

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Don’t Wait: 3 Tips To Deal With Difficult Or Disengaged Board Members

Bloomerang

Develop and execute a simple “accountability policy” to address the board member’s actions and behaviors. This policy should follow a very specific process. Whether you ask a member to resign or migrate to a different role, you want to manage the process and conversations tactfully and graciously.

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How to generate advocacy calls from your supporters to elected officials

EveryAction

Whether your organization advocates for policy change on the national, state, or local level, mobilizing your supporters to place advocacy calls to their legislators is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal—and with support from the right technology, it can also be one of the most convenient.

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The DEIAB Dilemma: How To Make Your Board More Inclusive

Allegiance Group

This typically involves an assessment of the organization’s culture, which includes interviewing people, conducting surveys, and reviewing policies and collateral. There must also be openness and readiness at the beginning of the process. They should be willing to revisit or add policies that reflect DEIAB principles as well.

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4 Easy ways to recruit for your virtual lobby day

EveryAction

Before your event, use an email series to give supporters a refresher on the policy issues you’re working on and how they’re impacting the community. Click-to-email (or tweet, or call) tools make it easy for your supporters to contact their legislators or other decision-makers on their own schedule.

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Cybersecurity: 5 Ways to Better Protect Your Nonprofit Data

Volunteer Hub

Without cybersecurity policies and protocols in place, your nonprofit is more vulnerable to data breaches. According to a cybersecurity survey conducted by Microsoft, 60% of nonprofit respondents do not know of or do not have a digital data policy for handling cybersecurity risks and protecting data. Here are 5. Invest in Training.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How To Accept Real Estate Gifts If You’ve Never Done So Before

Bloomerang

If not, contact estate planning and real estate firms to see if they handle this type of transaction. Develop a gift acceptance policy. Such a policy is a godsend for staff because you can now say “I’m sorry, our policy prohibits us from accepting gifts of property sitting on toxic waste sites.” But we also said yes!

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