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Top Interview Questions For Hiring a Major Gifts Officer

Allegiance Group

But not all of these may be immediately on display when you’re interviewing someone – so you have to ask the right questions to find out! What was your worst fundraising experience, and what did it teach you? Pretend you’ve secured several large gifts for a new program that the organization decided they no longer wanted to launch.

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Interview with NTEN's Community Program Coordinator

NTEN

NTEN''s newest team member, Bethany, is focused on our community programs, including the Communities of Practice and Tech Clubs. This month''s theme is building community, on and offline - a perfect time to interview Bethany about her inspiration for working in nonprofit technology and more! We teach this. Don’t focus on tools!

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Interview with Greg McKeown about #EssentialLive

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I was able to interview Greg to learn more about his massive social experiment called EssentialLive to get many people to try Essentialism for a year. The principles of Essentialism teaches us to know the difference and use our resources wisely. Video is here ). Greg describes it as “Living a happy life.”

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Question: The book's servant leadership teachings are particularly interesting. Why did you decide to include that material in the book?

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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

Have Fun - Do Good

CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights. She also pioneered art-based healing programs in post-war Bosnia.

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How to boost the member experience by integrating career center software with Nimble AMS

Nimble AMS

Create discussion groups in your online member community inspired by topics from your career center, such as job interview tips or resume techniques, to deliver a superior member experience. TECH TIP: Accessible with Nimble AMS, use myTrailhead to teach members how to use your career center and access its many features.

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Autism After 21 Utah Project: Lessons from a first-time fundraiser

Candid

Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps quickly became two of my favorite tools, teaching me about researching funders, finding specific grant opportunities, and making connections in the fundraising and grantmaking landscape of my state. It was such a relief to have access to this information! and Gail Miller Family Foundation , and others.

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