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5 Ways to Empower Scholarship Reviewers

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Reviewing scholarship applications can be one of the most complicated processes to manage during scholarship season. Reviewers are a critical piece to the award cycle, and scholarship administrators are dependent on them to complete the rest of the scholarship process. Hold a kickoff meeting with reviewers each season.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. A healthy balance sheet is the source of innovation, impact, and engagement. Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions.

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Overcome the Challenge of Defining Impact

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Defining and measuring impact is a tough nut to crack. In our recent webinar, “Measuring Impact: A Recipe for Mission-driven Work” , we shared how we approach impact, challenges we are looking to overcome, and a framework for building an impact measurement foundation to help you overcome the challenge of defining impact.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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Traditionally, we think of impact as, “For X cost, the organization will serve Y number of people in Z amount of time to create A, B, C outcomes using D, E, F strategies.” All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. Our expectations around results are powerful. Redefine Success by Solution Testing.

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How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact?

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The reason that we begin with the question – How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact? – Nonprofits must never forget that they are called to be active participants in the lives of people, learning stories, and, when appropriate, storytelling for further impact. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Delivering Excellence in the Age of AI or Association 4.0

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Know Who You Are With an action-oriented structure in place, you have the foundation for exploring probing questions like these: Why does the association exist? These questions should lead to gathering and analyzing the data to assess the organization’s current situation and investigate future scenarios. This is not a thought exercise.