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The Phases of Service Design

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As we finish our three-blog series, we hope you have a better understanding of what service design is and why it’s important for the social sector. There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype. Phase 1: Align You’ve decided to embark on a service design project!

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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Designate a point person for your new software implementation. Update your database policies. Update your database policies based on your new software platform (your new vendor or implementation partner should be able to provide some guidance here,) and set aside time for initial and ongoing training.

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The Phases of Service Design

Forum One

In our Service Design: Where Social Impact Meets Innovation webinar, we defined service design, described how service design fits into the social sector, and broke down how mission-driven organizations can apply it to their work. . There are 4 key phases for service design: Align, Research, Ideate, and Prototype.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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They are activities that are frequently governed and controlled by policies and procedures, such as: Evaluating where the blind spots lie in your organization is one way to begin conversations about risk. Both directors and employees should know which policies the organization has in place and how they are enforced. Sig is right.

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Digital Priorities the Mission-Driven Sector Must Address in 2024

Forum One

While experimentation is still a good way to learn, the potential and pitfalls of AI demand that every organization get serious about strategies, policies, and approaches that can steer them through decisions on AI. To be the best partner we can be, we’re doing our own work to learn, test, and iterate on all the approaches we recommend.

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How Successful Nonprofits Invest, and Reinvest, in their Online Presence

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Maria De La Guardia , design director and brand strategist at Bureau for Good , a design agency that helps nonprofits explain why they matter across digital and print media. For more insights on branding, messaging, strategy, print and web design, sign up to receive Bureau for Good’s once-monthly articles here.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] If you can’t call and thank every donor, who should be priorities?

Bloomerang

Make who you call a policy so you stick to it. development or major gift director, or the director of a program for which their gift was designated. Try some tests: EXAMPLE: International Rescue Committee tested calls to donors giving $100 to $149, dividing them into three groups: The first, the control group, received no call.

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