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How BoardSite Can Help Your Nonprofit Board Be More Productive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Between coordinating busy schedules and deciding on agenda items, it’s often difficult for nonprofit boards to be truly productive. Here’s how board portal software like BoardSite can help your nonprofit’s board be more productive and successful and follow good governance practices.

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8 Fantastic Facilitation Playbooks for Designing Productive Nonprofit Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many times our meetings are highly productive, but sometimes meetings can be boring, frustrating, and a complete waste of time. Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity?

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How to Market Your Mission In Product Fundraising: 3 Tips

Nonprofits Source

With product fundraising, you can easily incorporate your mission and show donors the cause they’re supporting with their contributions. In this guide, we’ll cover what product fundraising is and how your mission ties in. What is Product Fundraising? There is a variety of products you can sell during a product fundraiser.

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Get Them to Build Castles—Strategies for Successful Cross-Functional Teams

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The left brain uses emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and artful facilitation to keep all the players working productively together. The right brain meticulously lays out the goals and follows the tasks, timeline, and budget. The more diverse the group, the harder the left brain must work. […].

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback. Basic Approaches. ” questions.

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Nimble AMS has your back with trustworthy, pain-free upgrades

Nimble AMS

“Best practice is our only product practice.” Not only is the saying one of our core product principles at Nimble AMS, but it’s also the guiding light for our product release methodology. When Salesforce releases a new product update to all customers, Nimble AMS does the same—three times a year, year after year.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. Analyzing website traffic, social media, product sales, and marketing campaigns together strengthens activities on both sides of the equation. Data is an important connector.