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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Depending on the circumstances, these levels either promote efficiency with short, clearly defined reporting lines or create a long, perilous climb before ideas reach decision-makers. The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. All staff members are empowered to contribute ideas.

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5 Reasons Tech is a Must-Have for Marketing Your Nonprofit’s Golf Event

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Marketing your nonprofit’s golf tournament makes up the largest phase of event planning. It’s a good idea to combine standalone tournament marketing emails with your regular campaigns to maximize visibility and minimize spamming supporters’ inboxes. Email campaigns.

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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. Collaborative Brainstorming Encourage team members to participate in collaborative brainstorming sessions where everyone has an opportunity to contribute ideas and solutions.

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Anatomy of a successful capital campaign committee meeting

Candid

The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Some committee members may only attend a few meetings, while others may participate through an entire phase of the campaign. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start. Capital campaign committees are designed to have a beginning, middle, and end.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Running Your First Capital Campaign

Get Fully Funded

It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building? That’s actually a bad idea (more on that in a minute). During the public phase, you receive lots of donations, but small amounts.

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Nonprofit Content Creation: Back-To-The Basics of the Writing Process

Bloomerang

Many people get tripped up with writing before they even begin because they feel too bogged down with ideas and freeze up when trying to sort them out. Set a timer and just start writing down ideas – no need for complete sentences here. Start to put some structure to your ideas. Punctuation, spelling, sentence structure.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

Do your research to understand the structure and timeline of a typical capital campaign in advance. They generally last between two and three years, sometimes longer, and consist of these phases: Pre-planning - 3-12 months: This is when you’ll establish your campaign’s objectives and goal. What should you do instead?