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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. Nancy MacRae, MS, CAE, ENA, describes the relationship between trust and culture. “As

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3 Effective Tools for (Re)Branding Your Nonprofit

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Choose people that have different understandings and relationships with your (new) organization and whose influence with their peer group is notable. In many cases, you’ll have to employ a bit of “institutional psychology” to probe the hearts and minds that shape your organization. Below is a sampling of important questions to ask.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions. Take it out.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Highlight the Advantages There are plenty of incentives for these two teams to develop a symbiotic relationship. Integrate Strategy Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? What has changed over time?

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Building Blocks of Effective Creative: Relevance

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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be discussing the core elements of effective creative and how to incorporate them into your direct response creative. Relationship to your cause or organization. Acknowledging a supporter’s relationship (e.g. As we’ve already seen, urgency is essential to effective creative. Right Audience.

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4 Ways to Cultivate Relationships with Recurring Donors 

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Cultivating relationships with recurring donors is essential for nonprofits, especially in light of recent declines in individual giving. Building strong relationships with existing donors helps your nonprofit access reliable funding to support your programs and projects through any dips in overall giving.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

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In contrast is the middle third, who are typically helpful and service-minded—but with a caveat. But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. However, along the way we learned several lessons that proved integral to maintaining an effective—and accountable—board.

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