.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s a shift that many groups struggle to implement. podcast interview, my colleague Al Dea, Founder Edge of Work , explained this more contemporary attitude and positioning. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. We’re open and honest about initiatives that didn’t work.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Let’s say you’ve taken the important step of hosting a focus group for your nonprofit. A focus group will likely have both written and recorded data. Zoom has become a great place to conduct virtual focus groups. Why did you conduct this focus group in the first place? Transcribe your results. Go to the navigation menu.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Yes, he worked on space lasers! Association professionals are seeking a support group to help them face challenges and to gain the skills to stay ahead of trends. People benefit from the encouragement and wisdom of groups like.orgCommunity’s Leadership Circles. The tiered structure is a trap I’d stay clear of.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? It’s an ongoing process that should keep membership and marketing teams working together routinely. Marketing can customize campaigns utilizing information from the group that regularly communicates with constituents.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In fairness, so many groups operate with minimal staff that this type of program can seem like a luxury. If mentoring is a new concept for your group, baby steps may be needed to create buy-in. To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Many groups have adopted DEI as a strategic priority. Some groups are reluctant to divert attention from member engagement and attrition. We strive to include diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at the center of our daily work. Give the group some easy wins and some more visionary ambitions. Lack of resources.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? If your group is more sigh than sizzle, you need to meet Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey. Solutions Day isn’t just a catchy title.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. When the group reimagined their office space, incorporating elements of culture into the new design was a priority. Working on culture isn’t a finite activity. Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined.

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sgEngage

JUNE 3, 2024

We’re still figuring out (and struggling with) simply how to work with Gen Z. As a group, they’re generous and committed, especially with their time and energy. Board work is serious business and most in this age group would not be experienced enough for the challenge. Now you want us to invite them on our boards ?”

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

In case you missed it, Matrix Group now has a podcast. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: Successful organizations have chief executives that work cooperatively with their Board. These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. It’s called Associations Thrive !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. It can also be used to create work norms or processes. What is Brainstorming? .

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

They go by many different names – volunteer councils, auxiliaries, “friends” groups, and more – but regardless of their varied titles, such groups share a great deal. Long-term volunteers are still able to do the work they love, while benefitting from some more flexible options as well. Lessons from the Field.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Advisory committees let your nonprofit work with others who want to see you succeed. As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Nancy’s Story “Working with public institutions was especially important during the early days,” Nancy recalled. “We There was no working partnership with industry and public health. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. Upload work projects, such as presentations, videos, or special fundraising campaigns. For example: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

We are only about one month into the world’s largest work from home experiment. A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. The participants see the same familiar zoom interface, but instead of the whole group participating it is a smaller subset of participants.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Cultivate curiosity and resolve to stay informed about trends impacting your work. What Is Growth?

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Candid

MAY 20, 2024

Like 20% of the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium ’s (Southern Black Girls) grantee partners, the group had not received foundation funding before. Not having a traditional operating structure: Smaller BIPOC-led organizations are creative by necessity, given resource constraints.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: Facebook Groups can be used to help build communities and for deeper engagement and learning with your audience or peers. Facebook had recently revamped its Groups, and it seemed like the perfect place to take the conversation for a spin. It was working pretty well as planned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

And if your supporters don’t engage with your call to action the first time around, a well-structured follow-up is crucial. When you kick off your soft launch, your first email appeal to your loyal group of supporters should set the tone for the campaign, get them excited, and include a compelling call to action.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Who knows better than the people who are living the issues what will work best to address them? Kelly Buhles outlines some of the ways to structure participation in her article, “A Primer for Participatory Grantmaking,” and divides them into two main groupings: participatory committees and collective groups.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

And that information can almost always be broken down into its underlying data: the literal and figurative bits and bytes that catalog our lives, the work we do, and the world around us. Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable!

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 20, 2024

The truth is that you will encounter AI in a wide variety of places, and you need to make the decisions about how it works best for you — but don’t just avoid it. Personal And Organizational Productivity AI excels in structuring documents where the content is noncontroversial and exists all over the Internet. AI can assist.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2023

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Next comes a lead gift committee and a campaign cabinet or steering committee, followed by a range of additional ad-hoc groups assembled to tackle other needs as they arise in the quiet, kickoff, and public phases of the campaign.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

As engagement in DEI work deepens, it becomes clear that well-intentioned pledges of commitment to incorporate core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are not enough. Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard. Although I don’t have all the answers, I can share what has worked in my experience.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Author: Seema Rao This month we’re talking about work. Not the work we do, but the ways we do that work. or 38 hours of work a week, most of us put in way more. The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

Also, don’t underestimate the power of storytelling and communications as a way to influence and amplify one’s work to impact a broader audience. This critical research informs many of our current practices. Lastly, keep going. We see you and know that philanthropy as a whole can do better by listening to and meeting you where you are.

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Network for Good

MAY 7, 2021

When we think about experimentation, consider something like what in marketing is known as ‘A/B testing’: Let’s say you’re sending out our newsletter and you split your group of 1,000 people in half; 500 get one version of the newsletter and 500 get another. Then, track those different groups. How many people click through?

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. It is great when we get wins and can celebrate them, and it’s tough when we take a loss and have to re-group and press onward.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

In case you missed it, Matrix Group now has a podcast. Here’s what we’ve learned so far: Successful organizations have chief executives that work cooperatively with their Board. These are organizations that are not going back to their pre-pandemic structures and offerings. It’s called Associations Thrive !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. Sample Google Drive Structure Available for Download. 2) Strengthen Institutional Memory.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Here are some ways to practice that effort: Active Listening Sessions I encourage structured listening sessions where team members take turns sharing their thoughts and concerns, while others actively listen without interruption. Brainstorming together is another great way to get your teams working towards the same goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Leaders can see and do more when they know how to negotiate four key areas of the leadership terrain : structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. Great structural leaders : Do their homework. Rethink the relationship of structure, strategy, and environment. Insist on clear goals. Focus on detail and implementation.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The temptation to reduce people and groups to caricatures and strip away their humanity, to punish or humiliate those who try to bridge across differences, and to let ourselves get caught up in the win-at-all-costs mentality is real. The stakes are high, and the path to victory often seems strewn with the wreckage of ethical compromise.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

These grant forms enabled TAG to not only determine the level of overlap between questions (39 percent) but also to identify groups of shared questions. Thanks to the generosity of these funders, we were able to identify 13 groups where duplicative questions are present using several human-guided machine learning techniques.

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