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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Upper-level managers don’t have the bandwidth to vet or supervise new projects. It’s a structure that preserves accountability. You can do it.

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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. Your answers will give your fundraising plan structure and allow you to move forward with this important task. In other words, you have no format, no template, and no idea where to start. I’ve been there.

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What Does a Project Manager Do?

Media Cause

When timelines are being met, challenges that arise are being navigated with ease and wisdom, and communication flows consistently and clearly between a nonprofit and a marketing agency, thank a project manager. What does a project manager do? The broad answer is project managers manage projects.

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New Book: Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Newest in the series is the HBR Project Management Handbook. Nieto-Rodriguez defines projects as : Limited in time; they have a start and an end. Further, he explains that projects differ from operations , which are day-to-day activities, and which generally follow similar patterns and objectives every year. Hence, his new book.

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Mastering Next Year’s Budget With Revenue Projections and Donor Attrition Analysis

Neon CRM

This is especially true when it comes to budget projections that will help inform the strategy of your organization in the coming year. to project what your costs will be for the coming year. It means that where your organization puts its time, energy, and resources is a direct expression of the things it values. Let’s do it!”

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How Does Organization Structure Affect Online Success?

NTEN

Project Manager, Technology. For those of us who have responsibilities in online fundraising / marketing / technology, often our work doesn’t fit within the traditional department structure of most nonprofit organizations. Norman Reiss. Center for Court Innovation. Effective leadership can come from anywhere in an organization.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Perhaps making sure your co-workers do their part in helping make the project a success is also critical. In short, a web redesign is a big, daunting project with many moving parts. A budget for how much your organization is willing to invest in the project. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter.

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