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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Could the issue be trust? But at.orgCommunity we like to explore issues before they become sound bites. We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. We considered the following issues, which moved from broad to specific. Today trust bleeds into everything.

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How to be efficiently trendy  

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For example, a growth or decrease in individual giving might be vitally important to your nonprofit but totally irrelevant to others (like those primarily funded by government sources.) But time is always an issue. Or will the biased side of generative AI become more dominant?

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How Public Speaking Skills Can Help You Run Your Nonprofit

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Meetings allow you to discuss important issues, work through challenges, and ensure everyone’s on the same page. . Many experts recommend grabbing a pen and paper to sketch out your presentation’s format and structure. Grant funders. When applying for grants, it’s important to consider your grant funders’ perspectives and goals.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future.

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Due Diligence Best Practices for Grantmakers

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With grant-giving in the billions of dollars annually , grant disbursements warrant oversight and review. You need to understand the financial and organizational health of the grantee prior to making the grant. In that time, I have picked up a few best practices regarding nonprofit structure and governance.

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Four Lessons From Candid About Balancing Grantee Data Protection and Transparency

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In some cases, we’ve made these changes in response to specific requests from funders that have shared grants data with us. While it focuses specifically on grants data, many of the lessons are applicable to other data types as well. Protecting grantees’ data requires asking questions such as: How secure is my grants management system?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” They are created with the biases and worldviews of those who developed them.