Candid

JANUARY 31, 2024

Enter Candid Learning —a treasure trove of educational resources designed to empower you with top-tier fundraising expertise. Here are some ways you can leverage Candid’s resources for professional development—regardless of time and budget constraints. For example, short videos are a great way to learn quickly.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mad Skills – The Skill-Centric Approach. In a skill-centric program, Organizations can identify traits and aspects of successful members of their current competencies and roles, and address the precise capabilities that need to be established to excel within those positions. What do we mean when we say skill?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2019

Many of these resources are 100% free. At NonprofitReady.org , our mission is to give nonprofit professionals at all levels the opportunity to build skills and advance their careers. Here are five of the most popular learning resources (all completely free) to help you get started: 1) Nonprofit Essentials Certificate.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

In part one of our new blog series, Support and Maintenance of Your University’s Salesforce Org , we will explore long-term maintenance and success strategies, starting with best practices for staffing your Salesforce instance. What Skills Does Your Support Staff Have? What general skills are required to support your CRM?

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having a CFRE certification shows you have proficiency in nonprofit fundraising at the highest possible level, and understand ethical best practices in the industry. Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

PEAK Grantmaking’s work centers on five core principles , each challenging our community of 8,000 philanthropy professionals to critically consider their internal grantmaking processes and perspectives, as a means toward operationalizing equitable grantmaking practices. Evolution is an ongoing practice.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many of the characteristics we identified are the same skills that entrepreneurs use to grow start-up ventures. I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 I understand that CEOs must travel and learn, but I worry that their knowledge isn’t passed on to the team.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

Nonprofits should provide all volunteers with information about their mission, vision, and impact, along with access to training resources, documented expectations, available channels for on-site and off-site communication, and ways to provide feedback about their overall experience. Effective communication improves experience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. In fact, they vary greatly depending on your location, the skills of your volunteers, and your past training and experience at fundraising. Not all fundraising programs look alike.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the book, Strategic.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2023

Additionally, we will offer practical tips for nonprofit organizations to engage in LGBTQIA+ philanthropy and maximize the impact of their Pride Month events. Volunteerism and Skills-Based Support: Volunteering time and expertise can be invaluable to LGBTQIA+ nonprofits. When is Pride Month celebrated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together. Moments in which best practices, know-how, and insights are exchanged, streamlined stories are high leverage strategies to make knowledge memorable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Not only are they incredibly knowledgeable, but they were working remotely immediately as soon as the crisis hit. Every chat, call, or email is responded to almost immediately, with courtesy, professionalism, and best of all, knowledgeable solutions.”. How can you get an ROI in the digital literacy skills we are all developing?”.

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Candid

JANUARY 11, 2023

Whether you’re looking to level up your fundraising skills, invest in innovation, improve your nonprofit’s culture, or take better care of your colleagues and yourself, these 15 books can help you make the difference you desire this year. Build skills to become a better leader or manager. Take your fundraising game to the next level.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Many nonprofit professionals will tell you that the answer is “time” and/or “resources.” An instructor virtually guides you through common nonprofit tasks and best practices on how to use your system in real time. Are you able to interact with other nonprofit professionals to ask questions, share tips, and learn best practices?

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

Although the firm that I worked for was one of the leading providers of association software, when the company saw the investment in resources and time that was needed to switch to the new technology, they decided to stop production. “On Cultivating continuous learning—Identifying what you don’t know and striving to fill the knowledge gaps.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Having one (or more) active and highly functioning advisory committees fosters resilience, creativity, and even resource development for your organization. So, as you work to define your advisory committee’s focus, ask yourself and your team: What type of experience and knowledge do we need more of to carry out our mission?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Despite the flexibility, comprehensiveness, and mainstream popularity of WordPress, it does require skill, which is fine if you're the independent type with a soft spot for customization. Still, some skill is required, and many libraries and nonprofits take this to heart, having limited capacity if something goes horribly wrong.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Having board members who are able to provide expertise on the issues and needs of the organization's beneficiaries will create a better depiction of the best practices needed to fill those needs. Board members who have shared experiences as beneficiaries provides an added element of knowledge on how to best serve said population.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2019

According to our research at Common Impact , most nonprofits spend only an estimated 2% of their budget to support key operations like marketing, technology or human resources, while peers in the corporate sector typically invest an average of 35% of their budget on these functions.

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Candid

MARCH 23, 2023

This shift acknowledges that cost should not be a barrier for nonprofit leaders to build the skills they need to best serve their communities. These steps are a solid start to chipping away at pervasive inequities in funding practices. To further this work and deepen our commitment, Candid has formed a new Equitable Access department.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that foundations possess the potential to offer more than just monetary resources. Here are a few ways foundations can build on their role as community leaders: Capacity Building: Financial resources alone are often insufficient for grantees to achieve their missions.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They should put internal controls in place and help write policies to prevent loss, theft, or confusion, using current b est practices. Ensure Adequate Resources Board members should want your organization to succeed! And they should be willing to help raise money to ensure the organization has the resources it needs to succeed.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

We have several quick reads that will give your skills a boost—with minimal time and effort: Nonprofit Quick Guides by Joanne Oppelt and Linda Lysakowski. Find out how to tap into your unique skills to create social change and make a positive impact in today’s world. Have we got some recommendations for you! Happy reading!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

requires preparation, strategic thinking, technical writing, and research skills. These can include certain budgetary restrictions on allowable and disallowable costs, key personnel requirements, evidence-based practices that are incorporated into the framework, and other areas that impact the administration of the award.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. How many people will your organization provide ‘x’ resource with ‘y’ dollar amount?

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

However, upon occasion, even those established practices aren’t enough, and an individual’s behavior strays beyond the acceptable. training, coaching, job aids, or other resources) designed to achieve it, while also outlining the steps to be taken, timeline, and accountability process. How can you implement a PIP?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

With the right training and practice, middle managers are in the best position to evaluate employee performance and provide feedback that’s continuous rather than just a pro forma yearly review meant to create a paper trail,” share the authors. Build their organization’s knowledge and realign it with shifts from digital disruption.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Creating your unique product requires a dedicated team with the appropriate skills. Having this knowledge base available to you can be invaluable. Once you dig a little deeper, you’ll see there are, in fact, ongoing costs with an in-house build in addition to some pretty steep up-front costs.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 1, 2022

A common challenge you might face is that your supporters may not have years of fundraising knowledge and skills to reach their goal. Peer-to-peer fundraising toolkits provide participants with all the need-to-know information about your campaign including helpful resources and tips to crush their fundraising goals.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This might mean educational resources, research reports, and industry insights that non-members cannot access. For professional associations, these resources can help your members stay informed and up-to-date in their field. Think about how your members can bring their shared skills and perspectives to benefit your community.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Now that we are–unbelievably–at the two-and-a-half-year mark of the global pandemic, there has been some regression to our pre-COVID practices, and some foundations have settled back into status quo practices. Every collaboration includes embedded assumptions that we often ignore and lack the skills to test.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Hopefully, this provided you with some great knowledge on the history of volunteerism! That’s one of the best things about volunteering; there are a variety of ways for individuals to make an impact according to their interests and skills. Teaching volunteers valuable life skills.

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sgEngage

MARCH 29, 2023

To establish a strong department, it is essential to hire technically skilled staff who are well versed in nonprofit accounting requirements and best practices. Hiring staff without an understanding of the skills necessary to complete the routine finance tasks can undermine the growth of the organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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Volunteer Hub

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A few of the most common expectations that volunteers have include a welcoming work environment, resources and tools needed to complete their job, training and support, accommodations and scheduling flexibility, and ongoing communication. The best practice is to optimize each stage of their journey. Job Description.

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