Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

When it’s time for your association to purchase new software, you don’t want to cut corners just because you’re eager for new technology. Don’t miss our demo times on November 16 at 1:40 PM-2:20 PM and November 17 at 9:00 AM-9:20 AM. Searching for new technology can be a lengthy process for even the most organized association.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. They are a creative, flexible, imperfection-loving, problem-solving approach. A method that ignores or even challenges conventions on how, and by whom a problem is meant to be solved.”

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. Preparing a board to tolerate risk, is a sales process. Association 4.0 This often means recalibrating to meet evolving conditions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

Pulling from experience with thousands of RFPs, Prosal shares five best practices to enhance your RFP writing process. 1) Start with Research Before an RFP The RFP really should be the second step in your process. Before you even start drafting your RFP, invest time in thorough research.

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Bloomerang

JULY 7, 2021

Consistently attracting new potential donors is vital for you to expand your mission and, more importantly, to have the funding needed to make it through unexpected times. At the same time, marketing becomes exciting when it can fit in to and even expand your nonprofit’s mission. Show how your resource can help them solve the problem

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover the ins and outs of credit card processing for nonprofits, what you should look for in a payment solution, and how to set one up. Second, your nonprofit should have processes around handling cash donations to ensure that those gifts remain secure. What Payment Types Require a Processor?

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this. Our interview process is rigorous. This process ensures that we hire the right people.” Trust me, it’s worth it.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their systems, staffing, and business processes. Their processes are streamlined, and the team has clear roles and responsibilities. The problem, as she told the story, was Alan. More efficient and effective business processes.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

An RFP, or a request for proposals, is a process disguised as a document. Whether it’s finding the right candidates, having to wrangle their department to “get on board” with the details, or just spending so much time running the entire process, everyone agreed: RFPs can be a pain. State the problem.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

People and process problems frequently masquerade as technology problems. In fact, in many cases, what seem like problems with a particular piece of technology are actually due to issues with people, processes, or overall technology strategy. & technology for organizational problems.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2021

Here are 4 of the most common volunteer management problems and how your organization can avoid them. Volunteers need someone to come to with questions about assignments, procedures, problems, etc. Giving people thoughtful assignments and clearly communicating roles ahead of time will make for busy, content volunteers.

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.orgSource

JULY 29, 2023

As long as you plan for missteps before they happen and are psychologically strong enough to stick to the process that you’ve outlined, you will survive. If you sense a problem brewing, you may already be knee-deep in a hot mess. While naming the problem may be extremely unpleasant, clarity is the beginning of a solution.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

Make space to give your current staff the time and training they need to become engagement specialists. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Appearances don’t need to be time-consuming, but they should be frequent. Real-time promotion is already a billion-dollar industry in China.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2023

The platform streamlines important processes like onboarding, voting, and creating agendas, so you’ll have more time to discuss the issues that really matter. Acknowledging these problems is the first step to improving your board’s operations and processes.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For newer nonprofits, making informed decisions about how to get set up with donation processing can be especially difficult, and for good reason. It’s a complicated process. That’s exactly why we’ve compiled a few essentials about the donation system implementation process: Invest in a secure online payment processor.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Chances are your problems stem from focusing too much on technology and not enough on behavior. This time from Travis Bradberry , author and Chief People Scientist, LeadX, “Digital transformation is not just about technology; it’s about people. That openness is a gateway to innovation and creative problem-solving.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 13, 2022

Once you have written this proposal it is time to find great vendors to send you bids. You want to avoid an agency where every problem looks like the perfect nail for their hammer. What are the milestones associated with their development process? . How many design revisions are included in the process? .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This annual event brings together representatives from nonprofits and technology companies around the world to address the biggest problems facing humanity and the planet. We’re so grateful to Yaroslav for taking the time to share his story with us at NetHope, and I was honored to be a part of it. Rewatch this session on Salesforce+.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers. What has changed over time? Both MarCom and membership have a significant role to play in an integrated planning process,” Jane observed. Use Data as a Connector Integrated planning isn’t a one-time event. What is changing in our industry?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2021

When disaster strikes, timing is everything, and the best kind of relief is the kind that comes fast. Can employee relief become a team effort, giving employees across your organization the opportunity to support one another in times of need? What will government entities and insurance companies do, and where will they leave gaps?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2021

Asking Why multiple times helps you get to the root cause and helps your company to prevent undesirable results from occurring again or allows you to repeat a desirable results, explains author Michael Kallett in his book, T hink Smarter: Critical Thinking To Improve Problem-Solving And Decision-Making Skills.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 28, 2019

At some point, we all have to deal with problem employees: people who are just plain difficult. But there might be more to the problem than meets the eye. They have their own problems and hardships that you might be completely oblivious to. If they say they will make changes, but don’t, it’s time to take action.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Once upon a time, the title of the lead technology wizard didn’t necessarily begin with a C. Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. Emotional intelligence offers a framework to assess your competency and to begin an intentional growth process. EI is not a new concept.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The process can be long and filled with challenges. Share your existing process documents Before you begin your AMS search , start by document ing all your vital organizational processes. Take special care to detail your membership processes, including the joining and renewal detail s. Our team is here to help!

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

But all too often, foundations, corporate grantmakers, and donors end up unintentionally causing problems instead of helping to solve them. Here are five common ways foundations cause more problems than they solve: Providing short-term funding for a long-term outcome. And it’s a great way to learn. They’ll know for certain!

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. Problem/Opportunity Statement Your problem or opportunity statement is an objective description of the challenges associated with the gap between the current-state and desired future-state.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Streamline event registration and ticketing processes with an AI-powered chatbot. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. A tech staff, with some time on their hands, could have an out-of-the-box AI interacting with your members fairly quickly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2020

multiple times helps you get to the root cause and helps your company to prevent undesirable results from occurring again or allows you to repeat a desirable results, explains author Michael Kallett in his book, T hink Smarter: Critical Thinking To Improve Problem-Solving And Decision-Making Skills. Asking Why? In short, Why?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That is the world nonprofits using large data platforms exist within, and it’s taking up needless time, money, and effort to maintain. The post The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity appeared first on NTEN. So, we arrive at an impasse. The nonprofit market is a billion-dollar business, and corporations know this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 29, 2022

The only problem? The process to complete the transaction took several phone calls, paperwork, and more than a week to complete. “It And while stock gifting has been limited either by lack of awareness among potential donors or a painstaking process, the prize for nonprofits is enormous. “If

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

If you’re like most enterprise level associations, you likely have an in-depth process to get executive approval for any technology investments. And gaining executive support and buy-in for new association management software will take time. Stress that now is the time for change and clarify the risks of not acting.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 5, 2024

From Birth to Adolescence in the Nonprofit Lifecycle The process of creating an organization is messy, painful, sometimes almost tragic ( tragic flaws are as common here as in Shakespeare). If you understand the process in those terms, it might be possible to avoid some of the pitfalls, or at least, take comfort in their necessity.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 22, 2024

In that event, you want to make the case to your boss for the best answer to your problem. If you do get a new full or even part-time hire approved, and want to use a consultant/coach to help train them, that’s a good use of outside expertise. The problem to be addressed is highly technical. When to hire a consultant 1.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Time to start the RFP process to make sure you find the best vendor for your organization. While creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, we've put together some tips to make the whole process go a little smoother. And if time is a factor (isn't it always?),

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Now three months into 2021, it's time to check in on your progress with your 2021 New Year's Resolutions. As a reminder, here is a list of 70 possible resolutions for leaders. Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The reality is that skipping or neglecting the discovery phase is the most common cause of budget and timeline overruns, low adoption and ROI, and misalignment to people and processes. More times than not you will be richly rewarded (see innovation & growth below). Why is that? Here are our top 3 reasons: 1. Trust them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Now that we are halfway through 2021, it's time to check in on your progress with your 2021 New Year's Resolutions. As a reminder, here is a list of 70 possible resolutions for leaders. Congratulations if you selected some of these earlier and are making progress on them.

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