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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Despite these and plenty of other reasons to take a deep dive into you, Eurich’s research also revealed that, based on her definition, only about 10-15% of people are truly self-aware. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role.

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6 Tips on How to Use Social Media to Acquire New Donor Prospects

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Cabral, MA, CFRE, MFIA , founder of Development Consulting Services , which serves both fundraising professionals and executive directors new to fundraising, wanting to excel in their fundraising role, or advance in their career. Far too many groups are not focusing their fundraising efforts on wide-scale donor acquisition efforts.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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In recent years, that model is being challenged. Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking offers this definition: “Participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding–including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions–to the very communities that funders seek to serve.”.

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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What Nonprofit Leadership Really Is By definition, a leader is someone in a position of authority with the responsibility to guide a group. They’re responsible for planning, organizing, and directing a group so that goals are reached in a timely fashion. They inspire people, they solve problems, and they build teams.

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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! But, operating as a community organizer or manager is such a filling and critical role for programs, platforms and even campaigns to be successful that the idea of herding cats turns into searching youtube for cutest kitten videos.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

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But many Advisory Boards sit idle, with members not knowing their role and organizations not knowing what to do with the Board they created. Advisory members serve mainly in an advisory capacity though there are other roles they can assume. Assembling a group to travel to one of the organization’s work sites and volunteer.

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

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When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.