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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

sgEngage

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. Take it out.

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Should Your Hybrid Event Attendees Interact With Each Other?

AccelEvents

One challenge that event planners are anticipating is audience interactions. Naturally, there is an opportunity here for the two audience types to interact, but experts are questioning whether or not this interaction is necessary. We recommend holding back on forced interactions. appeared first on Accelevents.

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3 questions to ask during demos at Chicago AMS Fest

Nimble AMS

With interactive boot camps and 7 CAE credits available, you’ll have multiple ways to learn about today’s AMS marketplace. At AMS Fest 2023, you can see 22 AMS product demos and ask questions directly to the product vendors. At first, this might not seem like an important question to ask, but it is. What’s our answer?

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5 Questions to Ask Your Fund Accounting Vendor

sgEngage

But you do have good critical thinking skills, and by getting answers to a few specific questions from your current or potential fund accounting vendor, you can better understand if their system will help your organization grow—or hold you back. Bonus question: what percentage of the organizations you work with are tax-exempt?

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The Six Questions Superbosses Ask

Eric Jacobsen Blog

From Sydney Finkelstein 's book, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent , comes these great questions you should routinely ask yourself as a leader: Have you answered the "why do we exist" question for your team? Could all of your team members share this answer with you right now? How would you even know?

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How Asking Questions Helps You Connect With Your Donors

Bloomerang

During a hectic work day where many can only squeeze in a lunch break between firing off emails, it can be hard to know if you’re making your donors feel appreciated or if you’re giving them the impression that they’re getting copy and paste interactions. How to become a better communicator through questioning. It starts a dialogue.

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#AI4Good: Augmenting Human Interaction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When we think about applying AI to philanthropy and fundraising, we have to ask this question: What data-based analytical tasks are not yet automated or could be done on a larger scale and that would free up time for the nonprofit staff to focus on the human interaction with the donor? There are two sides of the design process.