VisionLink

AUGUST 20, 2023

Our hearts ache for those in Maui; we wanted to share some insights as Maui enters the next phase of response. Most importantly, the more comprehensive the information is in the early phases of recovery, the more the local community knows about its own needs, and the more it can better direct its own recovery. The main lesson?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The most popular desktop content management systems are quickly catching up to now offer easy, inexpensive mobile content options, but the time to learn about the importance of this trend for mobile communications and fundraising is now, or to be more exact March 6, 2012. Watch this technology closely!

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

At the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we gave our session evaluation system a major tech overhaul by highlighting a mobile text messaging option in addition to our normal paper evaluations -- as well as an online option that was added at the last minute.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Through a lot of hard knocks & sleepless nights, I learned three important lessons that help me maximize my time and resources in a small shop that has big aspirations. My first lesson was the need to establish strategic goals. I gave a hint earlier about the last lesson, which is to utilize volunteers, interns, co-ops , etc.!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I think the backlash against “one-offs” should actually be a backlash against leaders who didn’t learn lessons from those experiments and use those lessons in their future experiments. Iteration only works if you create the systems to learn from those tests. (I We're still in the additive phase of making museums equitable.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

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. . So feasibility study is an important part. .

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For instance, adopting a new CRM system , which not only streamlines donor management but also significantly strengthens your fundraising game. Whether you already have an exceptional CRM system or you’re considering investing in one, it’s crucial for driving donations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Most of us in the industry have been through a system implementation or two — or twenty — by now. MD: Not only were we introducing a new system to replace their legacy application, they were standardizing their business processes across the three pilot offices on the other side of the world. Zoom for training and testing sessions.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 6, 2021

Any waiting you eradicate from your nonprofit’s systems will have a dramatic effect on waste reduction and impact enhancement. Similar to the bigger systemic waste of transportation, motion waste refers to a single person or group doing unnecessary movements to accomplish a specific task. How to eliminate waiting? About the Author.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. Most people don't like change, and adapting to this sort of CRM system is a big change.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

During the planning phase, you should’ve created a list of tasks that you will need volunteers for. You’ve tested your systems to make sure they’re working, trained your volunteers on what they need to do and when, buttoned up last minute details, and feel confident that it’ll be a fantastic event! STEP 3: RECRUIT HELP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people? Phase two: All of the cities should be linked up to the homepage. She asked her 12,500 followers to donate just $2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) Here are some of the lessons we’ve learned, and the things we’d have done differently. How it worked. What did we learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Here is how I would approach it: The Five Phases Online movements are successful because they marry the right set of opportunities for engagement with a level of awareness and passion among the target audience. The concept of moving in phases is not new. Buy our tools or create a profile and our system will take care of the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

By studying fascinating real-life examples of social change through this systems-and-relationships lens, the authors of Getting to Maybe tease out the rules of engagement between volunteers, leaders, organizations and circumstance – between individuals and what Shakespeare called “the tide in the affairs of men.” Coordination. Collaboration.

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Content management systems (CMS) have transformed standard expectations -- about posting news and updates without web design skills, managing donors and other constituents, opening up sections of your site to your community, tracking results, and more. Here are five thoughts and lessons to consider: Escape the linear calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

We have gone through a few key phases in the first year, from working hard for nine months to build our first 10,000 connections and then being placed on the Twitter Suggested Users list and racing to the more than 300,000 we now have.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But our strategic planning process doesn’t have a way to make adjustments quickly as we learn lessons from implementing our plans. . So what is this old system doing to us? A lot of people in the for-profit space who have been successful have learned this lesson that getting momentum is the key, right? And I’d love.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people. So some examples and lessons. Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change. How do we do this well? Thank you for your understanding.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Are you using systems that require lots of personalization that could be automated? And that really stuck with me because we have this idea, not everybody, but lots of us, that we got to focus on the organization’s goal and then we just get the people to fill in. And then I want you to assess your assets, and I mean, your hard assets.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2013

While I hate to rub salt in the wounds of the many IT professionals working hard to get this new system up and running, I have to think this is a teachable moment for the technology industry. In my experience, I typically find that the most successful systems generally started from humble beginnings.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2009

He writes about the lessons he's learned about how to talk tech with curators, educators, and other museum beings who don't know what "OCR" means (like me). I often hear it used as a selling point from vendors—”our application features a content management system!” This guest post was written by Koven J.

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