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

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Most groups have invested in improved systems and platforms, and some have adjusted their strategy to maximize the new equipment. The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? You can do it. Know the Signs.

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Don’t Get Lost in Translation: What Finance Needs from the Development System

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But in a fundraising organization, Finance is heavily dependent on Development systems to furnish accurate, unambiguous fundraising data to the general ledger, so that correct annual and monthly financial reporting can be produced. Recording and Reporting Requirements. Revenue Recognition.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You’ll also be well-prepared to have in-depth discussions with prospective vendors and can make better decisions about which of them will be the right one to help you execute your organization’s web redesign project. The vendor will craft the system and recommendations according to your internal constraints and capabilities.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

Join OUR system. We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. We ask BIPOC people to fit into our WHITE system, and then we act surprised when they don’t feel included or welcomed. . What were structures in places at the time? .

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Financial Systems Integrations:  It’s less scary than it sounds

NonProfit Hub

and you think it’s time to upgrade to a new database system after 20 or so years. . Let’s say the system you decide on is well-known for how it managed members, events, and fundraising. Your nonprofit’s staff was used to an old, clunky system that didn’t do much. But there’s one glaring problem ?

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. And directors must be confident enough in their abilities to allow for frank and objective discussions, even around topics that may not always be comfortable. We’re a board of eight. That smaller size makes us nimble. The board doesn’t try to manage operations.

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