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8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture

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While an innovation culture looks different depending on the nonprofit, there are some key characteristics of a culture that leaves room for innovation: Strong Leadership: Leadership plays a key role in any company culture, but it becomes even more important when fostering innovation. You can do so with open and transparent communication.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

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Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit.

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Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

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With this shared objective, products across sectors play an essential role in addressing needs and driving progress. We’re pleased to be seeing a growing focus on products and product strategy among government agencies and nonprofit organizations, developing products and approaches that advance progress in health, the environment, and beyond.

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How to Approach a Nonprofit Job Interview with a For-Profit Attitude (and Résumé)

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On top of that, those accustomed to a traditional corporate hierarchy structure and raise-and-review process aren’t always likely to find the same at a nonprofit. Try thinking of the ways that you built something in your previous roles as a way to show you’ve experienced the scaling process and can think and plan in those terms.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

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Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Each role has specific responsibilities, and training helps set a foundation for each worker’s confidence. Unclear expectations, performance metrics, and goals. Close off communication.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. We all want to know whether our work makes a difference.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

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So, if a leadership role interests you, look no further than the approach you bring to the position. Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals.