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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. However, the tools and the basic framework can help everyone to look at challenges in a new way and analyze a situation from a different perspective.

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Enhance Community Impact: Free Playbooks for City Engagement

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Developing a Roadmap to Citywide Volunteer Engagement: The Playbook includes useful templates, shares the appropriate steps, and highlights a success story from Flint, Michigan. Having a clear and strategic roadmap to reach that destination is crucial to ensuring that the journey is successful and that it utilizes resources efficiently.

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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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“Money comes with strings attached, so be sure you are willing and able to honor each [grant] without putting the rest of your business at risk,” advises Steven Canum, CFO of Senior Resources of West Michigan. Learn the language and history. In managing grant funding , communication is key.

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University of Michigan – Setting a Higher Standard for Giving Days

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On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Advanced Planning.

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Colleges & Universities Choose Salesforce to Accelerate Advancement ROI

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Innovative colleges and universities, including USC , Stanford, Purdue, Rutgers, Michigan State, UPenn, and Notre Dame have recently implemented the Salesforce platform to help modernize their fundraising, personalize engagement, and conduct AI-powered research and reporting to inform strategy and measure ROI. “It

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3 Essential Questions to Assess Your Digital Transformation

Saleforce Nonprofit

He tells his teammates, “I’m not going to tell you what to do, but here are the tools, here’s the data. Greg holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and has over a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector. Dayton also says their data-driven culture empowers staff. I’d love to see what you can create.”.

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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

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At the time, Salesforce offered a way for us to create internal efficiencies, integrate our internal systems on the cloud, and create a more efficient tool for our lawyers. Court, Eastern District of Michigan, and worked in private practice before joining CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) as a program director. Rosen, U.S.

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