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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

Neon CRM

Organizational Overview: Background information on the nonprofit’s history, structure, and key personnel. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Mission statement: Clear statement of the nonprofit’s purpose, future aspirations, and guiding principles.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. What were structures in places at the time? . Many people can’t afford the things we make, and our imagined users are molded by our biases and current power structures.

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Improving Fundraising Asks: 5 Tips for Boosting Donations

Achieve

It’s best if you look at the goals you’ve set for your nonprofit and structure your ask strategy around them. Broadcasting your marketing materials on several different platforms can ensure that your donors will see your message through at least one of the methods. . Social media: Don’t forget about this effective outreach method!

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Why Invest in Nonprofit Human Resource Infrastructure?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. This will allow the agency to thrive while maintaining or growing a robust internal structure as needed. Human resource performance metrics: Methods & Processes that demonstrate that you care.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Volunteer tasks can range from simple to complex depending on how you wish to engage volunteers and how your organization is structured. This means your first step may be building out your committee structure or re-evaluating it, especially if you’re interested in using volunteers to help you with event or campaign management.

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Using Prospect Research to Improve Your Ask: 5 Tips

Achieve

This research method has the innate ability to uncover valuable information on prospective donors, helping your organization better understand its audience and determine key cultivation steps. . This is where prospect segmentation can provide the structure and guidance needed to determine the best ask for each prospective donor. .

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. This can contribute to overload unless you have a method to establish a remote work policy. Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Take a trend-line view.