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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

The MatrixFiles

So many of our clients are revisiting their strategic plans, most are upending their conferences, some are rethinking their member types, and so many are tweaking their governance. If we don’t hear joy in a client’s voice, our job is not done. Doing THAT would be the fastest way to planned obsolescence. There is no try. Be curious.

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

" Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms – "The results from a new study from Pew Internet and Life Project found that when citizens believe their governments are sharing more information, they are more likely to feel satisfied with civic life. ."

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider. Federal Government has made digital communications a priority.

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[VIDEO] You’ve Been Let Go From Your Nonprofit Job – Now What?

Bloomerang

We got a really fun panel discussion for you all around what you should do if you happen to find yourself out of the job in the fundraising and nonprofit sector. There are no slides. So it was actually the end of November last year in 2020 when I was laid off from that job. So thanks so much for being here. I’m Steven.

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Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

I had all kinds of preconceived notions about what I would find in Jakarta, but nothing prepared me for the massive skin diseases, people with all of their skin flaking off, people who had leprosy so badly that most of their fingers and toes were gone, and their skin was so mottled it looked like it was sliding off their bodies.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It used to be twenty years ago that the “do gooders” would go off and take lower paying jobs in the nonprofit sector. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” They want to combine both.

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Saving the Soul of the Social Sector

Tech Soup

In his decades working in direct service nonprofits, Berger said he saw the very real consequences of this inability to measure, learn, and improve: "I saw people get murdered, I saw people freeze to death, and I know that if we'd done a better job of measuring and managing our work, we could have done a better job."

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