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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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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

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. Write a description of the proposed Advisory Board’s purpose. From there, you can grow.

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

sgEngage

Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. When I proposed the concept of “datamaking,” I was seeking to bring as many aspects of the organization together as possible. Fast forward to today….

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Who are we, museums?

Museum 2.0

Then, I get home, confined to the couch with a terrible sinus headache, to find ICOM was debating the definition of a museum. I have many thoughts about the ICOM definitions. Sure, some of the people working on the definition have been informed. As as Katie Eagleton brought up, who is this definition for? Or does it?

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Surprisingly Cool Things You Can Do with an LMS

Gyrus

You are definitely reading that correctly. If your organization demands an immediate change, an external time component in unnecessary, and the inevitable reception of a bill to reflect that proposed demand can be completely averted. Webopedia Definition" Webopedia.com. Assessment Creation Tool. Granular Control. References.

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Donor Database Management: A Quick Guide to Prospect Setup and Tracking

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Standardization around portfolio tracking, donor interactions, documenting proposals, and next steps is critical to the health and sustainability of any fundraising program. Define transformational, principle, major, and annual gift amounts and frequency : What is your organization’s definition of a major gift?