The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

Each week, I interview association and nonprofit CEOs, Presidents and Executive Directors about the things their organization is doing to increase membership, generate revenue, and ultimately thrive. When Boards provide the guidance and oversight, and then let their Executive Directors or CEOs execute on their vision, great things happen.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Sharon Rice is Managing Director of Business Strategy at.orgSource and Garth Jordan is CEO of the American Animal Hospital Association. Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. The tiered structure is a trap I’d stay clear of.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. Clearly Identify Roles and Responsibilities The Difference Between Skills, Qualifications and Experience How Should Soft Skills and Personal Characteristics Be Incorporated?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

email addresses are not allowed, and as a general rule, should not be used for your nonprofit communications publicly or internally. For example, Plan International’s website : 2) Post 2-3 times weekly to your LinkedIn Page and respond to your followers. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do we get a telling the story about why this all important?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2022

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Determination Letter. In that time, I have picked up a few best practices regarding nonprofit structure and governance. This assessment will help you and the grantee identify skills gaps on the Board of Directors and establish a plan for any training that may need to be conducted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Factors including lingering COVID-19 disruptions and widening socioeconomic disparities continue to challenge nonprofits’ budgets, resulting in revenue concerns that keep CEOs, executive directors and other nonprofit leaders up at night. Add monetary bonus structure. Career advancement: Internal career paths.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

So when working with your organization’s development strategy, it’s a great idea to: Work with your development director to identify organizational goals. You might find that, although your organization is already skilled in coordinating workloads and developing timelines, your long-term goals might be a bit hazy.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Feeling like an island, burned by management, with no growth opportunities to lean into any of my previous passions or skills (did I mention work-life balance is nonexistent when working two jobs to get by?) That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Media Cause

MARCH 10, 2022

That’s really where I started building my skills, my confidence, and learning how to navigate the industry. ” I went down that path for more than a decade, climbing the ranks to Group Creative Director before deciding it was time to leave consumer advertising to do something that felt more meaningful. Tiffany Rivers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Nonprofits need to invest in practices that enhance and develop skills, create career paths and take work-life balance into consideration. Develop a strategic incentive structure. Offer positive incentives that motivate, recognize and reward accomplishments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

However, research has shown that through the regular implementation of a succession planning cycle, organizations are actually able to more efficiently run day-to-day operations vs. those that do not spend the time assessing their current structure. Recommendations. Scholarships are available.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The Structure of an Agile Sales Operations Unit. Given the variance of organizational structures even among similarly scaled players in the same industry, pinning down the ideal structure for sales ops is nearly impossible. Even then, there are organizational models and structural templates you can build from.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

It isn’t enough to read an article about a leadership skill, it is also important to practice it as part of doing your work. For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures. In large part, this focuses on setting policies and creating structures to support and manage teams.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. No matter where you are in your growth stage, taking action, in concert with your internal stakeholders, will always bring you closer to the goal of raising more revenue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? Consider using your executive director.

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Care2

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What we’ve seen across all organizations, regardless of size, is that digital teams—their structure, leadership, and how they are affected by the culture of the institutions where they work—are the biggest predictor of online effectiveness. Very few digital teams still report to IT. Most teams need more full-time help.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Management. Denver Nonprofit Institute.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

In fairness, some of the reluctance is probably due to entrenched processes for electing or appointing directors. From the Peterson Institute for International Economics—increasing the share of women in senior management positions by just 10% could boost annual corporate profits by $1.2 Bylaws changes can be complex and time consuming.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

You have to: Find people with the right skills and a commitment to your organization’s mission. There are many other ways to structure the responsibilities of your first hire. a Director of Development to build up a fundraising program that keeps the money coming in. But then there’s more. It’s a lot to take on!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Program Officer focus group (May 2012), internal review meeting (July 2012), and lots of conversations with our colleagues. What we’ve found has been really positive—for the most part, our work has been making a difference, and our existing program structure has served our Programs and grantees well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Title: Associate Director, Digital Marketing. I’m a big believer in getting volunteers and interns to help be part of this growing space. I think having our decentralized structure creates an army of social media ambassadors that encourages buy-in at all levels. Organization: The Nature Conservancy. Name: Amy Ganderson.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Management. Denver Nonprofit Institute.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007).

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Jumo’s received a very warm welcome and a lot of press being that the founder Chris Hughes was also the co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign. Making it simpler for people to connect with causes and non-profits on an international level. 4) Razoo – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

  Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic.   This organization is part of a 40 member organization network called International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR).  

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Director of Development, ASU Health Initiatives. It starts with a commitment by nonprofit CEOs, but also requires the skill and will of senior leaders, board members, and funders to build processes for leadership development within organizations (Landles-Cobb, Kramer, Smith Milway, 2015). posted by Eric Spicer Sr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits. In my experience, leadership, especially from the Executive Director and the Program Director, is necessary but not sufficient. Do we know what we want to learn?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, but it's a lot easier when you're not starting from scratch - so we've put together a template that you can fill out as you go, which already contains the structure, sections, and language you'll need.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

Look for ways to structure real discussions among board members that will elicit commitment and leadership. Discussions of this nature will activate your board members’ various backgrounds and skills sets, not to mention their interest. 8) Interview the Executive Director. What keeps the director up at night?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2011

Abundance: that’s not a concept most of us are used to as we run our organizations, yet abundance of computing resources and business process talent is the main cloud computing lesson I like to share with boards, executive and development directors and operational managers of nonprofits. More Value from Vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We could have refined the structure of the two days. We have a new transportation blog , Way2Go, and new participants in our international climate talks blog.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics, PBS Interactive). “I Rarely do I have the chance to work with such smart, skilled, and nice people who truly understand what I need and how to deliver it. Cindy Olnick, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Conservancy). Dawn Iype, Director of Online Strategy, Common Cause).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. This process emerged based on working for four years in a more traditional development organization sense, in which we were bringing in international volunteers.

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