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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. Build internal trust first: A soccer lesson I wasn’t an amazing soccer player, but I did enjoy playing on soccer teams throughout my childhood.

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Is a crisis management plan enough?

ASU Lodestar Center

Crises offer an opportunity for nonprofit professionals to step into leadership roles and requires those already in leadership to manage effectively to ensure that the board and the executive leadership teams are engaged. Organizations need to use the time now to regroup and learn from the unpredictability faced last year.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. Phase 1: Prepare your Approach. In this phase, you will define what success, impact, and approach to the change looks like.

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A Day in the Life of a Classy Account Executive

Classy

In the for-profit sector, it’s no secret that a sales department plays a pivotal role in the success of both its company and those of its customers. You’ll learn content, do role-plays, and get feedback, all while mixing in some automated lessons. . This is a guest post by Lauren Montella, Senior Recruiter at Classy.

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September #4Change Chat Topic: Change Failure

Amy Sample Ward

Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. Too often, these lessons end up on individuals’ computers, shared drives or locked away in portals and are not shared in order to prevent repeated mistakes. a state of prosperity or fame.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

For those not familiar with that term, program management includes representing the owner or the nonprofit at every step of the development process from, you know, land acquisition, going through due diligence, design, preconstruction, and the construction to move in phase. . And much has been made about them. Momentum is really important.