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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. That’s trust.

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

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

Bloomerang

Sometimes they won’t have the skills. 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.,

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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The Power of Plans, Peers, and Pivots

VQ Strategies

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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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. Participants prioritized the ideas by combining and evaluating the cost/impact, boiling down to a couple of ideas to present to the whole group. Transparency.

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Commit to Your Team’s Success—They’ll Return the Favor

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The knowledge and skill to execute initiatives at a high level. With the exception of skill, these characteristics are more innate than teachable. I kept asking what was wrong with my staff, and I understood that they were not the problem, it was my fault. The passion that takes a job beyond work into fulfillment and fun.

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