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

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. To provide specific guidance, I attended the board meeting and presented an evaluation along with recommendations for how the group could lead more effectively.”. I’m not suggesting that you level the cake. Understand the Options.

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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What To Do When Lead Development Staff Won’t Leave Their Desk

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Unless your staff member has done this effectively before, and was mentored by someone who knew what they were doing, they’re going to naturally be resistant. Reassign: If the problem is leadership heaping so many additional activities on this person’s plate (e.g., They’ll do anything else so as not to be unmasked as frauds.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] How to Engage Major Donor Prospects Who Blow Hot, then Cold

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So before getting to the solution, try sussing out the problem. Who were your heroes and mentors growing up? . This was not an insurmountable problem, but it was something that needed to be authentically raised with the prospective donors. . You can’t offer them something of value until you truly know what they value.

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The Power of Plans, Peers, and Pivots

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This year, the premise was certainly tested – and participating organizations reported that the encouragement to creatively adapt to these challenges, the tools and templates designed to support innovation, and the understanding that many volunteers are interested in partnering in problem-solving were what made the difference.

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

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Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. Evaluate your volunteer program. Evaluate your volunteer program. Train volunteers.

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Nonprofit Giving Trends and Future Fundraising Strategy

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The problem with viewing fundraising as primarily about money – still a largely taboo subject in our society – is it creates a tendency is to avoid the subject as much as possible. Or as my mentor and teacher Hank Rosso said years ago: “ Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.”. And that’s a shame.

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