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How to Make Your Nonprofit Recession-Proof: Perfect Your Operating Reserves Policy

Blue Fox

Is your capital position and structure strong enough to withstand the ebbs and flows of our economic system? First off: do you have an operating reserves policy? If so, when is the last time your leadership team reviewed the policy? Look, it’s helpful that your nonprofit found a sample policy on the interwebs for free.

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows. As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? The harmful impact of these early problems was clear.

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From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports? Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

Solution : Solve this challenge by creating a data capture policy. Solution : Restart your data governance efforts by ensuring you include the 5 Ps: people, process, priorities, policy, and plan. Dive deeper into creating a lightweight data governance policy in this blog or download the Ultimate Guide to Data Governance.

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Empowering grassroots organizations: building capacity, diversity, and relationships

Candid

Foundation does, including our calls for funding proposals and how organizations are invited to apply. There is intentionality in all that the Ms. The second report of the series, Living with Pocket Change: What It Means to Do More With Less , examines the impact and real-life experiences of chronic philanthropic underinvestment.

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Acceptable Usage Policies (AUPs) Protect You and Your Organization

Tech Soup

An acceptable usage policy (AUP) is a set of rules applied by the. owner or manager (you) of a network, website or large IT system that. restricts the ways in which the network, website or system may be used. In short, a policy ensures that every user understands that. Who should develop your policy? What It Is.

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WARNING: Four trends that will shake nonprofits in 2024. Here’s how to pivot…

Pamela Grow

Your organization’s donor communications program — consisting of solid Ask+Thank+Report+Repeat systems — utilizes neuroscience, consistency, and proof of impact to deliver trust in a nutshell. A good consultant can build your Ask+Thank+Report+Repeat systems, allowing your staff the time for stewardship and data.

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