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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin approaching these difficult conversations. Hundreds of ideas are generated. The first step is intensive brainstorming.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity.

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Question-first Nonprofit Quora Strategy: 7 Ideas to Boost Awareness

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With Quora’s vast variety of topics, your nonprofit will have instant exposure on a platform with tons of users looking for answers to their questions. Answer Questions This is a question-first platform that rewards the best responses with a top position on the thread and on Google Search results.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions. Take it out.

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A New Power Couple—Humans Plus Bots Deliver Member Delight

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What could be more personal than a good old-fashioned conversation? Post-pandemic, we’re seeing more businesses realize the value of conversational marketing, or actually talking with their customers and letting them respond. Consider this—the typical sales funnel puts a conversation at the end of multiple one-way interactions.

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9 Socially-Distant Donor Engagement Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Keep the momentum going with these creative donor engagement ideas you can apply to your 2021 fundraising strategy: 1) Get personal with gratitude via thank-you videos. Follow the lead of this executive director who launched her two-person nonprofit team into the limelight simply by joining in on the community conversation.

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10 Questions You Can Ask Major Donors to Build the Relationship

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And the best way to get to know your major donors is to ask good questions that spark conversation. After you decide on your goal, think about the specific questions you want to ask. Having 5-10 good questions in mind can help you make sure you get the answers you’re looking for from the meeting. Understanding them. .