BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

In this second part of the series, Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, shares more terrific advice and insights on financial health and nonprofit business models. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models. What is a smart nonprofit business model?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Enhanced community impact. Lack of leadership support. Mentorship programs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. With practical tools and dozens of real-world examples, Strategic shows you how to be more than tactical―and how to be truly strategic.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 90

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Philanthropy loves “new” things. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 71

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And looking forwards through data modeling allows you to make predictions about the future. They are like a compass that uses historical data as one point and forward-looking data modeling as another point to determine your direction and set your course of action. Looking backwards at historical data helps you answer that question.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. The objective here is to pinpoint, through feedback, the impact of a certain behavior so that the person practicing that behavior is made aware of the consequences of their actions. Building awareness is only one piece of calling in and calling out.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? In this excerpt from No More Status Quo , Heather digs into the problematic assumptions of long-held “best practices” in the grantmaking space.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

In fact, 800 foundations signed a pledge to adopt more trust-based practices in order to move money more quickly and with fewer restrictions. Trust-based philanthropy is not about “blind trust”; it is a rigorous practice rooted in relationship-building, learning, and mutual accountability. So what can we do about this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Partnership on AI’s “ Framework for Promoting Workforce Wellbeing in the AI-Integrated Workplace ” provides a framework and practices to guide employers, workers, and other stakeholders towards promoting workforce wellbeing as AI becomes integrated into the workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference “ Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact &# where I participated on a discussion panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. He also added that it is important to have structured information. Kathy Reich offered some context.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. With practical tools and dozens of real-world examples, Strategic shows you how to be more than tactical―and how to be truly strategic.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Embracing a long-term view of these practices not only unlocks your nonprofit’s growth potential, but also builds and reveals your own professional aptitude for organizational leadership. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 72

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 27, 2021

The investment you make in your team (your greatest asset) will have a larger ROI than any other practice or product of your organization. . Model the Boundaries You Want to See. Proactively modeling the right behavior can curb all sorts of common boundary busters like social media use, gossip, absenteeism, or overworking. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong.

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Leadership Kansas Authoring Chapter 85

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Enhanced data quality : A data warehouse helps you integrate your data into one place, but it also offers the opportunity to reinforce your data hygiene practices. 6 Steps to Get Started Take these steps to build a solid foundation for your data warehousing journey.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Scalable programs should be based on a strong theory of change or logic model, clearly linking program inputs to outcomes in a way that can be tested and evaluated to determine actual effectiveness. Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. What models of “collective impact” or multi-stakeholder collaborations have emerged; is there a typology?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure? Some reflections from David here ). Market: Is there a need for this? Is this new and unique?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation produced these results as documented by Edelman. The Knight Foundation launched the “ Giving Day Playbook ,” a step-by-step online guide of best practices, templates, checklists, and other resources for community foundations to successfully host a Giving Day in their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As the GEO gathering comes to a close, funders are spending their morning on the practical consideration of how adopting a network mindset will change our day to day work. Adene Sacks is a Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation. Guest post by Adene Sacks. Adene Sacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m honored to be part of the Schusterman Philanthropic Network and Jim Joseph Foundation for #NetTalks , a free, five-part webinar series for Jewish professionals who want to tap into the power and potential of alumni networks. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. billion, and the number of private foundations has nearly doubled since 2005. As a result of this growth, Silicon Valley now boasts more than 76,000 millionaires and billionaires.

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Create Philanthropy Alexa Local 99

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. Adin is right: there are challenges to putting the wisdom of crowds to good use for foundations. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The traditional models of organizational leadership clearly don’t apply, but then, which models do? As Eugene Eric Kim said this morning, “What can you do to start practicing, without having to wait to know what the answers are?”. So, what are you going to do next to lead, in whatever networks you find yourself?

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Leadership Network Model Structure 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, one of the areas of inquiry as been Network Effectiveness which is part of Organizational Effectiveness area. The question has come up: Does leading networks require a different a skill set than leading organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. Advisory Boards Need Structure. The most likely reason is time.

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Roles Nonprofit Government Advice 111

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As CEO, I practiced servant leadership, which enabled me to build an empowered management team. The governance structure of our housing program required that each of our 12 Section 811 HUD properties had to be corporations and have their own boards. Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Lesson Effective Create Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. Peer learning is certainly not new, and there is rich insight draw on from the study of communities of practice. It should be clear to all involved that the learning process will be exploratory and emergent rather than tightly structured and directive. It’s a form of network building.

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong.

Benefit 52

Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change.

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Review Change Cleveland Generation 106

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

This early portion of the Skoll conference is for Skoll awardee staff, the Skoll Foundation and key resources to grow the field. How is it structured? Because of the high minimum, the amount of time to take care of the donors is much more practical than if there were 100 or 1,000 donors. Where do you find the donors?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

Jim Fruchterman and Marcia Adler During our party, we also honored Social Profit Network's Robert Levenson, the Skoll Foundation and the Omidyar Foundation which provided vital philanthropic funding to expand Bookshare over the last decade. Bernie was represented last night by Marie Young of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

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