Gyrus

AUGUST 24, 2016

How to Train and Develop Millennials. Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. There are some really fun ones out there, about how millennials are weaker than their parents, and how their neurological wiring explains their short attention spans. Most importantly these articles are mostly drawn up in the marketing world, and with good reason.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2016

Set a good example for your employees and follow through on everything you say you are going to do. If you promise to get an employee an answer, get it for him or her. If you say you'll send a team member a report, do so. As the Nike campaign/slogan so aptly says, "Just Do It." Too many leaders don't follow through. Perhaps they get busy. Perhaps they forget.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

Growing the size of your email list is an important strategic goal for your nonprofit's marketing, communications, and fundraising programs. Even with average email open rates under 20 percent, email is consistently the best performing communications tool for most nonprofits. It requires significant effort and discipline to keep building your email list, month after month.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 24, 2016

To say it’s easy to get a raise in the nonprofit sector (or any sector for that matter) would be laughable, but things aren’t always quite what they seem. It would seem like taking time off would kill your nonprofit productivity and smash your chances to get a raise, but a recent study showed that over 60% of people who took 11 or more vacation days off got a raise in the last three years, versus the less than 30% who didn’t.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. I was honored to travel around the country with 40 of the brightest and inspiring creative leaders, from screenwriters to speechwriters, publicists to producers, authors to filmmakers and more.

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