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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft said this about the importance of being emotionally present. It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The digital age is all about leadership.

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Signs Of A Successful Nonprofit Board: Making A Difference With 120 Hours

Bloomerang

Influence: Building relationships and partnerships A successful nonprofit board understands the power of influence. Board members should dedicate 18 hours to convince foundations, government officials, legislators, business leaders, and community influencers that their organization is a wise investment.

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Six things you may not know about the U.S. social sector

Candid

While nonprofits are perhaps most associated with the social sector, organizations within it can overlap with the spheres of business and government. Political organizations such as political action committees (PACs) straddle the line between public and private, accepting private donations in order to influence elections.

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant. Nope, it’s not possible."

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on foundations in your area or state. Build a relationship with the staff and board of your local community foundation. Prospecting.

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5 Times Foundations Cause More Problems Than They Solve

NonProfit Hub

It’s what foundations were created to do. But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Even with the best intentions, foundations often take actions that oppose the outcomes that both they and their grantees hope to achieve.

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How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

Achieve

build effective presentation skills. Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . Delivering better internal presentations. . Be Brilliant’s guide to writing a presentation.

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