ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A board of directors is a legal requirement to establish and maintain a nonprofit organization and helps to ensure the organization achieves its stated mission and meets the expectations of stakeholders, according to Nick Price. Yet, many nonprofit boards do not reflect the communities in which those same organizations are serving.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A We do phone screening followed by three waves of interviews with teammates from different cross sections of the company. Our interview process is rigorous.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each monthly meeting is hardly different than the next. If your board members hit the snooze button during meetings, this will reflect in their commitment to fundraising, advocacy efforts, and follow through on assigned tasks. You open up the agenda, update the new date, and make a few changes. Truthfully, you’re bored.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 6, 2021

You find a local nonprofit in your community that you think might be able to help you find and utilize resources relating to rental assistance. The employee is unaware of the issues you face, and is unsure on how to help. The concept of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion (DEI) helps nonprofits stay relevant to the communities they serve.

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

Help your board feel empowered to ask educated questions by giving them more experience with the GAAP statements throughout the year, and not just during the audit presentation. Request a Demo The post The Final Step of the Audit: Helping Your Board Understand the Nonprofit Audit Report first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 1, 2014

While every nonprofit wants to cause change in some way, every nonprofit is different. Each with a unique goal, different needs, and all conduct daily operations in a different way. As a result of all these differences, each nonprofit’s technology should reflect their uniqueness.

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

To help you out, we’ve pulled seven of our favorite examples of donation pages and highlighted what we love about them. But once a donor redirects to a different website that doesn’t look anything like your nonprofit’s website, it’s easier for them to avoid following through on the donation. Check it out. That’s NOT what you want.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. It’s also about making sure that your questions reflect the current state of your community and the sector, and that they respect the diversity and expertise of your applicants. As a grantmaker, questions are your tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. Overnight Reflection. Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

If your association is struggling to launch a strong diversity initiative, these activities will help you get closer to that goal. A professional DEI training program can help people identify blind spots and biases while maintaining a safe and supportive atmosphere. Pave the Way Don’t assume that everyone shares your enthusiasm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It also includes an excellent set of terrific questions to discover impact, but there are many different methods for this type of reflective learning after completing an event, communications strategy, or program. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned. Share your examples in the comments below.

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Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

That’s why we sought to uncover trends among successful nonprofits on the platform and what they do differently early on. Help your teammates understand the tools available to them so they can maximize their roles within your organization. Our findings are now your roadmap. Respond personally to new donation activity.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

With the help of impactful testimonials, you can turn compelling narratives into a driving force for your mission. The Importance of Testimonials Testimonials are personal endorsements, typically in the form of a statement or story, that reflect a person’s experience with your nonprofit.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

Many in the philanthropic community desire that nonprofits reflect the communities they serve—including everyone from volunteers and donors to staff, executives, and the board. You want to ensure all voices from the communities you serve are reflected throughout your organization, especially on your board. Christal M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 19, 2024

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. While it can be hugely helpful, AI doesn’t do an amazing job writing for the searcher’s intent or your audience. Search Engine Optimization.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Check out our last installment here ! Get in touch at LizAlbertFundraising.com !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Reflecting on the past success of your fundraising efforts while also learning about emerging fundraising trends can help you decide how to best allocate resources for the upcoming year. Fundraisers can receive helpful cues from these intelligent tools. Fundraisers can receive helpful cues from these intelligent tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, reading Eduardo Briceño ’s bold and highly applicable book, The Performance Paradox , will help you break free of chronic performance. We can combine the two (Performance Zone and Learning Zone), like salt and pepper, but doing so is different than focusing only on getting things done.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Building a predictable revenue stream helps to reduce this imbalance and provide much needed support during your organization’s fallow periods. As a corollary to the cash-flow point, a mature recurring donation program can also help an organization improve its long-range planning and decision-making. 4) Better Long-Term Planning.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

Thus, the sector is faced with a paradox—our job is to focus on the world’s most wicked problems, yet constantly doing so can inhibit our ability to imagine a different future. Here are three simple, evidence-based practices that have been shown to boost your mood, well-being, and help you savor what is going well.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

It may be older, smaller, a different model, and less-than-perfect. The social media specialist who helps you set up your social channels and content calendar then trains your staff on posting engaging content is an inkind donor, and a high-value one at that! It all depends on their situation and their desire to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Below is my fully human-generated reflection. Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. 65% are using it to clean-up their Monday morning inboxes. (I

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

These green flags—crowdsourced from Candid’s social media followers and staff—can help you demonstrate that credibility. 1. Funders want to understand that investing in your organization will directly help the cause—and the people—that you both care deeply about. You Avoid saying the same thing in different ways.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

reported for “informal helping.” Respondents also said service increased their belief that they can make a positive difference in their community (79%), self-awareness (78%), knowledge about social, political, and civic issues (72%), and ability to collaborate with others (80%).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I can’t help but wallow in my mistakes and relive my frustrations. But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. Said, differently, the future can be the one we collectively make. Learning from challenges is one of the hardest things for me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. It can be tough to know how to move forward since your donors have different communication goals than your nonprofit. Feeding America. Feeding America and Subaru.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Indeed, if we commit to shifting power, we need to see and understand things differently. But is this the right question?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

—– I recently posted about Jumo with reflections, notes from my experience using the new platform, and questions – this post has also generated a great deal of valuable conversation in the comments (over 70 thoughtful comments so far). On & Offline Engagement. Online is great for organizing.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

In its blog post “ Practical Tools to Help Grantmakers put Learning First ,” the Johnson Center for Philanthropy reminds us how challenging this can be. The world was very different then. Five years ago, there had been no pandemic, there was a different president in the White House, George Floyd was still alive, and inflation was 2.4%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2022

With the increased use of design templates using platforms like Canva, it is now even more important to establish your brand guidelines to help you navigate using the best template for your brand. You may have several variations of your logo that are used for different purposes. Your logo is the most essential component of your brand.

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Building these habits now will help organizations meet more of their goals in 2023.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. Our system allows you to develop a number of different assessments, surveys, screenings, etc. How does your solution measure impact?

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. This is your monthly reminder that you are helping us support/accomplish XXXX.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. This helps presenters gauge the audience and figure out whether to dial up or dial down their presentation. (I Documentation of Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. I think the most important point is that we have to think differently about webinars less as a push and more a pull. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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