Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

1 lesson; 3 lessons, is this restricted or unrestricted?) for that 2-hour learning period; lesson preparation time; supplies, etc. Both fundraising and finance staff need to be using the same chart of accounts structure for the fund designations to align. Impact a Community.”. and FASB rules. — Charity Clairity.

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Gift Lesson Skills Training 80

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice. On Not Being Constrained by the System You’re In. Lessons Learned from Two Decades in Philanthropy. We Need to Talk About ‘The Giving Tree’ Systems Change Is All about Shifting Power.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. But COVID reinforced that lesson. Now, the long-term issues related to the broken healthcare system are at the crisis level. Our plan isn’t perfect. But it makes sense for our team.” We’re continuing to learn and adapt.

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Milwaukee Story Share Wisconsin 221

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Leadership Benchmark Story Structure 67

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

For those of you that don’t know about IP addresses, here’s a very quick lesson. Human beings suck at remembering numbers, so a system of connecting names to numbers exists (called the Domain Name System , or DNS.) But the core underlying structure is computers talking to each other via numbers that run from 0.0.0.0

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Internet Laptop Phone Lesson 160

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Technological change – new software and systems. a new CRM software system , a new timeclock system, a new accounting partner, a new venue for an event) you are going to pursue to help you respond to the need for change and reach a desired outcome.

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Change Management Change Management Phase 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The book is divided into three sections: The first section includes: A focus on how and why women tend to build strong companies, staring with the structural challenges they must overcome to raise venture capital and scale their businesses. An Impetus for women to structure their businesses in a more purpose-drive way.

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Learning Leadership Benchmark Story 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. The Live Enterprise model is different because it allows good agile principles to be practiced at scale in a large company, not sacrificing the structure and scale needed to be successful while still being flexible and adaptable.

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Model Lesson Business Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Photo by Idea Constructor.

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Global Difference Network Develop 95

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

This sounds even more ridiculous when we acknowledge that we’re working with human beings who are infinitely complex, and we are operating in a space to address systems, structures, and practices that in many cases have been intentionally designed for hundreds of years to limit the possibilities and success of huge segments of our population.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Decreasing returns to scale , aka ‘one more heave’ and ‘lessons must be learnt’ – As the number of people involved in the system increases, the returns diminish. Decreasing return systems are tightly coupled: Prize consistency and coordination. Increasing return systems are: digital.

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Gift Wikipedia Case Study Facilitation 108

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

From recruiting, developing and sustaining Black teachers for schools, BTP works to develop recruitment strategies, create support structures and even conduct research to ensure long term sustainability for Black teachers. Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.”

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History Support Organization Portland 51

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

I felt first hand the technological, structural, and emotional challenges of delivering an engaging six hour lesson to groups of 30-40 people. They took place in Las Piedras, Bayamon, Hormigueros, and Ponce. My most notable feeling from this experience was that of respect for teachers. This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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Puerto Rico United States Student Library 100

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

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.

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Change Case Study Org Lesson 102

Everyaction

JULY 2, 2018

Training and team structure is key Another lesson learned by the Nature Conservancy over decades of planned giving work was that structuring their planned giving team around different types of planned gifts was more effective than dividing fundraisers based on geography.

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Report Giving Case Study Conservancy 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Have you evaluated your work with intermediaries, and if so, what lessons have you learned? To this end, they advance the organizational effectiveness of current Foundation grantees by supporting projects that improve their management, governance, and leadership by developing strategies, systems, structures, and skills.

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Strategy Public Evaluation Foundation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

What we’ve found has been really positive—for the most part, our work has been making a difference, and our existing program structure has served our Programs and grantees well. Through this process, we’ve considered what works well, and where we can experiment with being more effective and having more impact.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

NTEN

APRIL 30, 2010

Congratulations on the campaign, and thanks for sharing lessons! Peter Campbell writes a provocative post about IT isolation in an organizational management structure that goes very wrong: the System Administrator goes to jail. Peter points out the lessons every nonprofit can take from this. . Scariest part?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Operations & Leadership How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 4 Great Examples) 14 min read Read Now That’s a lesson you can apply to your own board communications.

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Guide Business Support Metrics 52

Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures.

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Learning Social Learning Environment Classroom 54

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. used the group for last week, asking about his project to evaluate and implement an organization-wide document management system. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint.

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Discussion Sharepoint NTEN China 44

Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

This software features built-in wizards to help structure your presentation’s narrative and build libraries of standard graphics and slide elements (like logos and maps). The Product : Each lesson is designed specifically for nonprofits and led by CPA Gregg Bossen, who’s been teaching QuickBooks for over ten years.

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Program Donation Library Product 47

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Both ended their experiments with insights about how to set up systems and structures for content creation across channels, linking, and engaging. They will use the lessons learned to share with the education program to set up its Facebook presence as the next experiment.

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Social Media Network Media California 99

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

Here are some lessons I've learned from Carson. We usually think of rules as confining the realm of possibility, but Carson argues that strong structure and adherence to rules enhances guest comfort to "play" within the imagined environment. What makes a great immersive experience? Orient People to the Unifying Story or Theme.

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . So maybe your board members randomly tell you about grant opportunities.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups. I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures.

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Organization Synchronous Fundraising Social Media 70

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! So what did you do next?

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Museum Story Project Design 43

VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Here are some lessons learned about selecting a new solution and transferring your existing data to that new platform. Most importantly, you are looking for a system architecture that allows some partners to work completely privately, some collaboratively, and some fully integrated--and these options need to be concurrently deployable.

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Platform Software System Facilitation 186

Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

I was soon to learn all the lessons about what not to do by email the hard way. A well-designed modeling project can do more to provide structure and direction to a fundraising program than can wealth screening alone. Real people did not have cell phones, and the cell phones that existed were the size of bricks. I don’t make models.

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Model Fundraising Gift Database 26

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems. A lot of these partnerships push against our internal ways of working, and while that's a healthy tension, we need to be sensitive to the stress on our organizational systems and each other.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. For instance, adopting a new CRM system , which not only streamlines donor management but also significantly strengthens your fundraising game.

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Develop Calendar Nonprofit Retention 72

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. There are people who will work as hard as they possibly can, but because of structures, and because of systems that I had access to that they often do not, it just seemed to shake my vision of what's right in the world. You started very young.

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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. That’s not to say there weren’t any hiccups.

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Virtual Global Tips Test 65

Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems. Build all the things! Create as much as you can, no matter how small the scale.

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Team Tech Colorado United States 57

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

No matter how large or small, every fundraiser or fundraising activity requires structure and planning to be successful. 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 5: EXECUTE.

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