.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Often, these relationships develop informally. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? How can we support women, people of color, and other minorities in achieving leadership roles? My personal goal is to make opportunities for the future leaders at AIIM.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Highlight the Advantages There are plenty of incentives for these two teams to develop a symbiotic relationship. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. But the relationships we cultivated over years were critical in the early days.” I am still evaluating the lessons learned.

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Forum One

JANUARY 5, 2023

Meet Christine Perlick , Forum One’s Director of Client Services. My resume is speckled with strategy and user experience (UX) roles, so I always enjoy an opportunity to tap into this passion and collaborate with Forum One’s creative experts. These relationships are undoubtedly the most rewarding aspect of my job. Get in touch!

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Over the next few posts, I’m going to explore how AI grounded in EI can be your association’s superpower helping you accomplish those New Year’s goals and bring out the best in every team. podcast Sharon Rice,org Source Director of Business Strategy , and I talked about these shifting dynamics. In a recent Association 4.0

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

The foundation of an effective fundraising strategy is built on the relationships your team forms with the people who power your mission. Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. What is donor stewardship?

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EveryAction

JANUARY 25, 2023

To kick off 2023, we asked our partners, what are some new habits nonprofit practitioners should build with their donors, volunteers, and other supporters to help them meet their long-term organizational goals? Acknowledgement is important, but gratitude can make the difference between keeping or losing a donor relationship.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

The goal is to develop short, mid, and long-range strategies with flexibility baked into the design. Sharon Rice ,orgSource’s Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the process like this: “Scenario planning fills you with information and an understanding of the possibilities. CEOs must be role models for their teams.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We are hosting a guided exploration of what trust means for our future relationships with staff, boards, constituents, and the association industry. The objective is to arrive at actionable strategies for strengthening those relationships. One goal was to identify how the pandemic impacted their business models.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Is your relationship with the board effective? Set clear expectations and roles from the beginning. Establishing trust takes time but providing the right framework to lead staff and deliver on strategic objectives will ensure fruitful and positive volunteer/staff leadership relationships. Are you ahead of or behind the curve?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2024

When it comes to reaching your nonprofit’s revenue goals, major gifts are critical. While your nonprofit likely has an individual or team dedicated solely to moves management and major giving, your marketing efforts can also play a role. What role should marketing play in your major gift strategy? Let’s get started!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Therefore, one of the best ways to encourage donors to make major gifts is by building relationships with supporters and focusing on donor retention and stewardship. Let’s review the key steps of finding major donor prospects, building relationships, and retaining their support for the long term: 1. Set ambitious but achievable goals.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

from our friends at Double the Donation Major giving strategies play a major role in many nonprofit organizations’ fundraising success. Effective major gift fundraising focuses on cultivating relationships with that 20% of donors, and we’re here to help guide your efforts to maximal success. Consider hosting a capital campaign.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. 3 Ultimately, we were left with 20 people who collectively served as a functioning board of directors. By the third year, we were ready for a chair skilled in finance, and this chair played an important role in further reducing the deficit.

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Kindful

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

These items have their uses, for sure, but if you really want to see results from your direct mail efforts (while having fun in the process) consider producing pieces specifically designed to build and enhance existing donor relationships. Why make building donor relationships a goal? Yes, direct mail can be personal!

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 18, 2022

Each functional area of your association has a different role and a different perspective. But here’s one thing they have in common: A modern association management software (AMS) system can help each one of them work more efficiently and accomplish their goals more effectively. . Information technology (IT) . Membership .

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Director of Community Engagement for Charlotte Rescue Mission, to learn more about the organization’s initiatives, and their utilization of our software. Can you tell me more about Charlotte Rescue Mission and your role within the organization? We had a chance to interview Donnie Shell Jr.,

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning is the process of creating a blueprint that guides an organization for a specified time period and helps accomplish its goals. The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Offer to support the development director, development committee, board chair, or ED in their fundraising tasks.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

One of a board member’s main roles—while rarely discussed—is to support the executive director (ED). It requires a deep understanding of the ED’s roles and your place in making that person successful…without micromanaging. Is Your Board Properly Supporting Your Executive Director. We’ve got your back,” is more like it.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

Depending on the size, reach, and impact anticipated from a technology change, engaging the board of directors is often critical to your success. Where does the organization need to make faster or deeper progress on our goals and mission? Let’s dive in. What issue is the board keenly aware of that this new tool can help solve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

One of the themes raised up as the GEO/Monitor Institute conference came to an end was the importance of trust and relationship building in networks. The philanthropic exploration of networks potentially offers a new platform or frame to talk about the need to explicitly value process and relationship-based work. John Esterle.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Over the years, my experience in a variety of financial leadership roles has led me to the following hypothesis: nonprofit finance is critical to mission success. The better and more effective your programs are, the stronger the case for finding adequate revenue streams to support short-term needs and long-term goals.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2023

Bradley has been with the company in a leadership role since 2017 and has been, since 2021, the Chief Strategy Officer responsible for advising senior client stakeholders on digital strategy and communications. We are confident that she will step into this new role with an insightful perspective on how and where we need to grow and improve.”

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St. Our volunteers make a difference and have the opportunity to change lives (including their own) every time they fill a role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2015

If you are stumped for how to write performance appraisal goals for a particular title and role in your organization, purchase Paul Falcone 's book, 2,600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Drive the necessary development efforts to meet the organization's annual revenue goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Managing relationships. Wiens also discovered during her research that people with burnout immunity have a special relationship with stress. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 14, 2015

If you are stumped for how to write performance appraisal goals for a particular title and role in your organization, buy Paul Falcone 's book, 2,600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Drive the necessary development efforts to meet the organization's annual revenue goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This guest post is a summary of a longer piece posted on The Whitman Institute ’s website titled From The Kids’ Table To The Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks. The article makes a compelling case for funders to focus on relationships rather than networks. From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

By understanding each board member’s background, expertise, and passions, you can tailor fundraising roles and activities to engage them meaningfully and ensure their efforts align with their strengths. Do you have experience with networking and building relationships? Are you comfortable with writing persuasively (e.g.,

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On top of it all is the reality that the diversity needle has not moved much in board of directors’ positions at nonprofit organizations. Being able to see people who look like them on boards and in leadership roles can only encourage a future generation of diverse leaders to help promote nonprofit missions.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

But if you are on staff during this period, it is important to remember that you play a vital role, and do what you can to avoid burnout as you carry forward. They may hew to an established strategic plan or question ambitious fundraising goals, for example. Ask Yourself: Is it Me?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The more accurate and insightful that executive directors and finance teams can be when predicting revenue, cost, and ROI, the better equipped their organization will be to sustain and grow its mission. Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Optimize grant management to ensure alignment with mission and efficient use of funds.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 6, 2022

At Xperience, Nimble AMS customers and software staff presented their success with the platform and how to best utilize the association management software (AMS) to reach association goals. Rachel Seratte led the session, teaching administrators what to expect in their new role and how to use Nimble AMS to get the job done.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Practitioners are tasked with understanding how their assumptions or mindsets about objectivity, rigor and evidence; resources; roles; definitions, perceptions, and decisions; relationships; and productivity and accountability all may bias their MEL approaches. These convenings are often driven by the needs and goals of participants.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. Here are several suggestions to help accomplish that goal. Build Relationships The IT Department can’t be an island. They sweep away old thinking and stimulate curiosity.

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