Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2024

Is your organization preparing to adopt new technology ? Your organization needs to do its research before deciding on the right technology for your staff and members. Additionally, you need to prepare for a successful project implementation and the launch of your new AMS. Read our blog to get started.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Community Brands Association Trends Study found that 90% of association professionals identify developing or improving engagement opportunities for their members as a top priority. To increase member connection and loyalty in your organization in 2023, you’ll want to p repar e your member engagement strategy today.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

According to Marketing General Incorporated’s 2021 Marketing Benchmarking Report, 50% of associations surveyed believe lack of engagement is the top reason members didn’t renew. Use your data to find out how your customers interact with the organization and how it changes over time, which can help you understand member journeys.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 14, 2020

At the start of 2020, we at VQ Volunteer Strategies were training and coaching four different cohorts of organizations. Yet, the post-initiative surveys and the first-hand accounts reported during year-end convenings, we have been delightfully impressed by all that the participating teams have achieved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. The report offers some great tips and advice to those managing emerging leaders on how to mentor them. Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level? Leadership'

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Finding the right board members is essential for any organization’s success. Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental. Implement a board portal for communication and organization. What are your dreams? Your challenges?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

Despite the growing use of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the nonprofit sector, there are pervasive disparities among who is leading these organizations. Survey responses suggest that systemic racial barriers may be the cause of these inconsistencies. Increasing mentoring initiatives for BIPOC staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 20, 2022

As you develop your volunteer program, members become association ambassadors, helping to build public trust in your organization. . According to Fidelity Charitable , 70 % of active donors also volunteered, some working 50 hours at an organization. Offer mentor/mentee programs . Thanking volunteers accelerates recruitment.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Provide thorough training The first step to providing an enriching volunteer experience is making sure your new supporters know the ins and outs of their roles and your organization. Consider asking volunteers who have been at your organization for at least six months to lend a hand and become mentors. Let’s begin.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

For decades, the perception of executive pay at nonprofit organizations has been the image of a grossly underpaid executive director OR a scandalously overpaid CEO. Pay scale surveys show that nonprofit employees typically earn less than their counterparts in the for-profit world. Heart work has value. Focus on people-first.

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

The monthly social trends report from Media Cause spotlights the biggest trends on social media each month, and spotlights how nonprofits and social good organizations can use social media effectively to reach and engage with their audience. We hope you enjoyed our monthly trend report! Happy New Year, and welcome to 2024!

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For member-based nonprofits and associations, figuring out what membership benefits you’ll offer is one of the most important decisions your organization will make. In other words, your organization should probably be offering members these four benefits in one form or another. Here are three different ways you can do that.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 2, 2020

PD is crucial to keeping the right people working for your organization. Second, better results for the organization as whole. Lastly, investing in PD means better-educated and more motivated employees to help reach the mission for which the organization is striving. First, it helps with staff retention rates.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. A lofty, ambiguous goal will not serve your organization in the long term.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They’re what make your organization thrive. But anything you can do to thank returning members and add a personal touch, such as listing the ways they’ve been involved with your organization in the past and thanking them for their participation, goes a long way to showing your gratitude. Here are five great ways to say “thanks”.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

As a critical element of your brand, your mission statement needs to represent your organization’s ethos but also be informative, succinct, and moving to your supporter base. A nonprofit mission statement is the messaging an organization shares, displays, and uses as a guiding principle. All right, let’s get started.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2019

What comes to mind when you hear Diagnostic Survey? Well, let me assure you that it is a lot of work, but when preparing these components for certification with the Service Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the benefits your organization will reap far outweigh the time spent. How about Certification Rubric?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

So what happens when your investment doesn’t pay off and your organization isn’t as effective as it should be? If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. And you’re far from the only one; studies report that 85% of employees are not engaged or actively disengaged at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The workshop focused on how nonprofit leaders can activate a culture of wellbeing in their organizations. If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success.

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Care2

MARCH 19, 2012

We talk to a lot of people who want to improve the way their organizations use technology, but who feel innovation is a luxury that limited staff time and budgets won’t allow. This week we released a free report detailing our findings. Our new research shows that they can. Our new research shows that they can. What did we learn?

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five tips to keep your members happy and engaged so they don’t abruptly cut ties with your organization. The soon-to-be-released Community Brands Member Engagement and Loyalty Study suggests there’s room for organizations to get members more involved. Invite them to serve as a mentor, or even hold a leadership position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The concept was genius — providing an app and free cell phone to the individuals in exchange for filling out the surveys. Completing the survey would get them more cell phone time. The concept included enlisting a telco partner who would provide the phones and data cards. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.” Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.”

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 10, 2022

With continued employee training, you’ll be able to promote from within your association, reducing the overall staff recruitment costs and increasing morale and loyalty within your organization. . However, only 47% of these employees report they were offered technology training opportunities. . Optimize your training platform.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Friday, December 24, 2010 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Having a mentor is one of the best things you can do to advance your career as a leader.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. This is best accomplished by allowing employees to see clearly where they stand in the organization versus where they want to be in their careers. A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events? If you believe in stuff like reports, surveys and studies, the number one factor in recruiting and retaining quality employees is pay. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy? Work-life balance.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2005

Each time, people around the world have reached into their pockets and given generously to the organizations working to provide relief to those affected by these catastrophes. And there's good reason to worry, reports the Denver Business Journal: In a survey conducted in late 2001 and early 2002 by the Alexandria, Va.-based

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Armstrong in their book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys : 1. To discover what employees are thinking and doing – in a nonthreatening survey environment.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

Survey your volunteers and routinely seek their feedback. The easiest way to listen to your volunteers’ voices is to conduct a survey. The aim of conducting a volunteer survey is to gain statistically beneficial answers, while simultaneously empowering them and bolstering your retention efforts. . Make the survey anonymous.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. You can learn more tips for writing employee surveys in John Kador’s and Katherine J. Armstrong’s book, Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events? If you believe in stuff like reports, surveys and studies, the number one factor in recruiting and retaining quality employees is pay. Are folks busy enjoying their work, or working to look busy?

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Personalized video engagement: Personalized video platforms are an emerging technology that empowers organizations to craft individualized videos for each member. Remarkably, a substantial 93% of organizations that have incorporated personalized videos have reported a noteworthy uptick in conversion rates.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

Gorman spoke with the poise and self-confidence of an artist who has been performing her whole life, but just a few years ago she was a shy teenager who was apprehensive about sharing her work – a “skinny girl with a speech impediment who needed a mentor,” in her words. Show potential new donors why your organization deserves support.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Even as more reports illustrate the harms of biased tech, nonprofit organizations are also strategically using digital technology’s power to fight inequality and racial injustice at scale. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And so today’s topic is hopefully just that, it helps inspire you to be able to work in a more organized way to engage all of the different stakeholders that we work with in the field. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. Is there competition between organizations?

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