sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

By making key changes in technology, processes, and culture, your organization can adopt a responsive philanthropy approach to adapt to increased community need. The increased need brought high levels of urgency, so it was essential to get funds in the system and back out through grants quickly but thoughtfully.

Philanthropy 87

Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 87

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. Change Organizational Culture.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice. On Not Being Constrained by the System You’re In. Evaluating a Culture. Why more and more executive directors of color are leaving their positions, and what we need to do about it.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. What is the difference?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the anti-rape movement, we see the work of ending violence as dismantling systems of oppression, like sexism, racism ableism, classism, homophobia, etc. Our Advocacy Director here at Media Cause, Clara Campbell, always emphasizes that people connect with people, not brands.) Structure Your Message Effectively .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

By making key changes in technology, processes, and culture, your organization can adopt a responsive philanthropy approach to adapt to increased community need. The increased need brought high levels of urgency, so it was essential to get funds in the system and back out through grants quickly but thoughtfully.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 52

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling. The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Given the variance of organizational structures even among similarly scaled players in the same industry, pinning down the ideal structure for sales ops is nearly impossible. The gateway (i.e.,

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. However, there is still a lot of confusion about what knowledge work is, what it is for, and how to do it.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 71

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 14, 2019

In order to counter the pending “leadership deficit,” organizations must take a new approach to building HPT’s, which involves approaching human resources strategically, creating a development plan, building a supportive culture and measuring performance. Build a Supportive Structure. Approach Human Resources Strategically.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience. Membership Models: The What and Why A membership model is an organizational structure where a nonprofit offers a valuable set of benefits in exchange for a recurring membership fee. What does your audience get out of joining forces with your organization?

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Model Florida Nonprofit Benefit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

The session was about transparency and conducting evaluations. One of the takeaways was that in order to pursue this type of learning, organizational culture was the key indicator to success. Peter’s post shares some ideas about cultivating a learning culture and while written for funders, these are applicable to nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Three definable CFO roles took shape as I continued to be lost in deep holistic thought: the Builder, the Strategic Decision-Maker, and the organization’s Cultural Trendsetter. The Builder CFO takes pride in many strategic, analytical, transactional, and systems contributions, but three areas are most relevant to mission success.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

The systems in which these organizations are operating under are not designed with these tenets as part of their fabric, in fact the opposite is true. Organizations are perpetuating systems of oppression by their very nature. When people talk about “systemic oppression” what are the systems they are referencing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Rationally looking at the system caused him to make a different choice. Often the loss of visitors is completely due to your structures. We also have a culture of not treating the people who are coming right. And, in many of our prep conversations, we talked about the real challenge of changing human systems.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, but it's a lot easier when you're not starting from scratch - so we've put together a template that you can fill out as you go, which already contains the structure, sections, and language you'll need. What makes your nonprofit different?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The research on how compensation systems affect employee motivation is both fascinating and surprising. In fact, there is a huge tendency for employees to get disgruntled and de-motivated by the compensation structure. We welcome your comments and feedback. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. These will help avoid the Peter Principle risk.).

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

Identifying your organization’s unique value proposition is key to structuring your year-end campaign narrative. You can also create a culture of storytelling by inviting everyone to identify potential stories. Set up a Monitoring and Evaluation System. Consider the following questions: What do you do that no one else does?

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Campaign Guide Fundraising Storytelling 52

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change. Review their proposals. Overview of this Nonprofit Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

What I absolutely love, is that the book has a companion web site with worksheets and checklists from every chapter. There is a robust chapter on how to conduct an organizational learning assessment that helps staff, volunteers, and board gauge their need and readiness for professional development and some organizational cultural indicators.

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Develop People Change Mentoring 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

They were able to save the family farm—not only that, but the Executive Director was asked to pose for the Men of Nonprofit calendar because his stress melted away and he regained his youthful, radiant complexion!”. Plus, they’ve been around as community pillars for thousands of years and are relatively simple in structure.

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Community Giving Work Strategy 20

Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

We all make up systems as we go along, we all look for inspiration at non-parallel models, we all incorporate game-theory into our work, and we enjoy thinking about how to bring incentives into the act of participating in our communities. Moss ) is a must-read for any leader or staff member who has ambitions of being a leader at a nonprofit.

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Review Second Life Nonprofit Model 66

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

constituent engagement), implementing and optimizing CRM (a constituent relationship management system), is the easy part if you work at an organization whose culture isn't constituent centric. But look at your internal structure and ask yourself: how are my employees incentivized?

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Offline Attitude Structure Culture 34

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. To volunteer in helping to transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We were seven people in a room, laser-focused on making the MAH a community gathering place and cultural center. One of the hardest things for me as the director of a growing organization is learning how to lead a larger team. We're about 6 months into trying a system for this called OKRs (objectives and key results).

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Collaboration Tools Build Organization 20

NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

Functioning - we keep the lights on; we have basic systems in place to meet immediate needs. We have HIGHLY innovative staff who push our available technology structures to capacity. In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption". What is Tech Adoption? "We

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So the role of the board, every nonprofit has a board of directors, which as we know provides strategy, oversight, and participation. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Tyrone Freeman , Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies & Director of Undergraduate Programs at The Lilly School of Philanthropy. This orientation starts with building cultural competencies. A better strategy will require better systems, better data and data utilization, and better relationship building.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. ” In response, technology directors and CIOs ask, “I know we can customize this, but is it a good idea?” Be Aware of Precedent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying. They're made to plod along. Then they start to slide. Then they die.

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Candid

AUGUST 16, 2022

With this high percentage of women workers, one might think that there would be no gender disparity in the power structure within nonprofit organizations, but the report goes on to say that “only 42% of nonprofit boards are led by women and only 22% of nonprofits are run by a woman Executive Director/CEO” (2018).

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Culture Classes Nonprofit Structure 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

The system we have designed addresses how to capture, analyze and assess what matters. The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. With enough individual stories, the system “tips” and the Mainstream accept the Story. . Their stories contain the issues that matter. Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Both ended their experiments with insights about how to set up systems and structures for content creation across channels, linking, and engaging. HCAP is a small agency and its executive director participated. As she notes in her case study, “The world of social media was quite new to our organization.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems. Can you think of a time when you changed the system in response to an external need or stress point?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Individuals impacted by the criminal legal system also benefit from access to educational programs that prepare them for workforce re-entry while qualifying them for well-paying jobs. Both nonprofits are using tech to help students of color gain access to educational resources, readying them for high-paying careers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. And then just last week, I believe, you wrote about things you suck at , like multi-tasking and managing people who need a lot of structure. They can create the change makers. You started very young.

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