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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Review their proposals.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

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 proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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I led a group of fellow volunteers who evaluated applications from diverse organizations. If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?” would those questions reflect that funder’s value of equal access?

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COVID-19 and the nonprofit response: Social enterprise?

ASU Lodestar Center

The disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 health crisis in health access, education equity, underinvested neighborhoods, and lack of or underemployment, all play a role in the disproportionate impact the crisis will continue to have on Latino and underserved communities nationwide. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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Four Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

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Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. Clarify roles and responsibilities. Development officers should be very clear and unapologetic about that role, especially when establishing relationships with donors. Tailor goals and expectations based on each officer’s role, tenure, experience, and portfolio.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.