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Let Volunteers Shine (And Inspire Gifts) On GivingTuesday

Bloomerang

The organization was also experiencing some cultural shifts as well. Like many healthy nonprofits, Marie Curie was trying to instill greater collaboration and a deeper culture of philanthropy across teams, some of which were siloed. They were also shifting their culture to more evidence-based planning.

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How To Overcome Doubt In Order To Better Serve Your Nonprofit And Your Community

Bloomerang

Identifying your scripts and the stories you tell yourself. Scripts are the beliefs we’ve formed about ourselves that lead us to think and act a certain way. If you doubt yourself often, you’re probably listening to scripts that reinforce a negative opinion of yourself. The Inner Critic. This voice can come from several places.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Taking a JEDI Approach

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Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions.

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The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: Trust and Flexibility Work in the Workplace

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For the third article in our nonprofit culture series, we interviewed Rich Sagall—founder of NeedyMeds. NeedyMeds on Culture: “I value very highly the workplace culture and atmosphere. We don’t have any scripts [to help callers]. NeedyMeds was named one of the NonProfit Times Best Places to Work for 2013.

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Cybersecurity strategies for nonprofit websites

NTEN

Non-technical Promote a strong password culture. A WAF protects against cross-site forgery, cross-site scripting (XSS), file inclusion, and SQL injection attacks. Passwords should be complex and difficult to figure out. This prevents attackers from viewing or tampering with data exchanged between two nodes. Back up your website.

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How to Overcome a Victim Mindset in Order to Better Serve Your Nonprofit and Your Community

Bloomerang

Often, your mindset is influenced by what you’ve been taught to believe through your own personal experiences or “scripts.”. These are three mindsets you can have surrounding your script—the dialogue you have in your mind about yourself, your history, and your future. You can learn more in this TED Talk from Jane Carson-Sandler.

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Tips for Adopting a Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

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Trust-based philanthropy is so far from the compliance-oriented culture of traditional philanthropy that it can raise a lot of eyebrows. Trust-based philanthropy flips that script, making it the funder’s responsibility to get to know prospective grantees, saving nonprofits time in the early stages of the vetting process.