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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Lately, I’ve been speaking and writing about the importance of emotional intelligence and how the softer skills add a critical dimension to digital initiatives. How do we bring novice players up to speed?

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental. Equip your new board members with the knowledge, resources, and connections they need to succeed from day one. Welcome them aboard. But don’t stop at day one. We’d love to hear from you!

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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As many as five tiers of responsibility (junior positions, middle managers, executive staff, committees, and the board of directors) are not unusual. Updating roles is a good place to begin promoting the flow of knowledge, ideas, and information across your association. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged.

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How to Become a Nonprofit Leader

The Modern Nonprofit

Find a mentor. He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. Similarly, Cendana’s advice to those interested in pursuing executive leadership roles is to find an executive director who is willing to mentor you. And it’s true!

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How can nonprofits grow sustainable revenue by retaining fundraising professionals?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Internal mentoring program. Fundraiser talent investment interventions.

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5 Ways To Be A Better Ally

Saleforce Nonprofit

“I contribute to the DEI Open Source project because I want to help create events that are open and affirming to people who have traditionally been excluded from working in tech,” says Sarah Pilzer , a Salesforce Trailblazer and the director of operations at Country Dance & Song Society. “I Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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What is the best way to deliver professional development to nonprofit emerging leaders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook, ” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development. 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. We learned a lot.