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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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Whether you are thinking about applying for your first grant or your organization manages several grants each year, it’s important to have clear processes to meet those mandates and avoid straying outside your mission. Adopt a robust fund accounting system. Focus on the why. Foster strong internal partnerships. Keep the momentum going.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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Keeping pace with this environment is a constant process of understanding what works, refining those strategies, and abandoning anything that does not add value. How can leaders prepare themselves and their employees to develop effective systems for culling unproductive activities and managing the constant volatility?

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Getting the board on board with nonprofit technology changes

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As you use these questions to engage in dialogue with your board, it helps to remember that board members may have opinions and learned experience about what tools and systems are best. They may even have used similar systems in past roles or managed a large tech implementation at some point in their career. Try one (or both!)

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Why Your Donation Payment Process Reflects Your Brand

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It must connect to each step of the donation process as well. . payment process. Each step of the donation process should reflect authenticity to your donors to establish rapport. So, how can your organization communicate transparency in your giving process and as an organization as a whole? . payment processing.

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Questions to Ask During the RFP Process

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Ask for a demonstration on another site they’ve worked on forf how to make those changes. What CRM systems (such as Convio, Democracy in Action) do their technologies integrate with? What CRM systems have they completed recent integration projects with? What are the milestones associated with their development process? .

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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Your audit might explore any, or all of, these seven areas: Technology systems Policies and procedures Security Productivity Communication Culture Professional development How you present this initiative to your employees is critical. Assess whether employees are using the software and systems to the fullest extent.

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Are You Done With Digital Transformation?

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Continuously Improve Quality Digital transformation is a process of continuous quality improvement. There is no near-term end to monitoring and updating issues like these: Identifying manual processes that should be automated. There was still some skepticism around the urgency to adopt digital business systems.

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