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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. What nonprofit leadership skills does a Founder or Executive Director need to steer the ship? Where do you need to improve?

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Why we’re all burned out and what to do about it  

Candid

Lack of accomplishment: struggling to be effective or efficient at work, noticing lower productivity or capability, or feeling low on morale and coping skills. To this end, the Job-Demands-Resources model offers a simple equation: burnout = demands > resources. Sound familiar? If so, you’re not alone.

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COVID-19 and the nonprofit response: Social enterprise?

ASU Lodestar Center

This crisis will only serve to exacerbate the effects of slight growth in traditional funding sources for nonprofits, already trying to do the best with what they have. Traditional funding sources will not be enough to respond to the long term negative economic effects of the health crisis impacting low-income communities.

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The Practice of Personal Gratitude in Fundraising

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If you feel mired in stress and anxiety, you might have a tough time with this exercise. Gratitude is a muscle that needs exercise. Use this exercise daily to keep your head in the right place. But the exercise will help you move forward in a positive way. Start by modeling the behavior you want to see. That’s you!

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A Grateful Note to End 2020

VQ Strategies

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1]. Thank you. [1]

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Analyzing Budgets and Saving Money at a Nonprofit

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Afterall, nonprofit is your tax status, it shouldn’t be your business model. These funds are often depleted quickly, so act immediately when opportunities are announced. As a result of this exercise, we commonly see organizations identify $3,000, $5,000, and even as much as $10,000+ in savings! Funding For Good, Inc.

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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. One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being.

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