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

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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Leading with Reflection: New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Nonprofit Email Communications (with Examples)

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and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. For example, “write a 100-word fundraising appeal email for high-value corporate donors” is a much better prompt than “write a fundraising appeal.” We’ll show an example of this in the next section.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Routinize Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reflection is a critical step in assessing individual and team performance at your nonprofit. A reflective process, whether it is a structured process for individuals or groups, can give us insights about what worked and what could be improved. Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions.

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How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 10 Great Examples)

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If your nonprofit has made any large-scale changes, your team should sit down and assess whether your mission statement still accurately reflects your work. Here’s an example. Take, for example, “we do.” 10 Awesome Nonprofit Mission Statement Examples 1. Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event?

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

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In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. What Is Growth?

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Your committee should reflect the diversity that they are assigned to propagate.