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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Having one (or more) active and highly functioning advisory committees fosters resilience, creativity, and even resource development for your organization.

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The voice and vision of the volunteer

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Not being able to fully deliver these services can be attributed to the constraints on budget, staff and lack of resources. These limitations can be decreased if nonprofits embrace the voice and vision of the volunteer. This can be easily addressed by insuring that each person’s skills are utilized to his or her utmost ability.

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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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Our research shows that people who know how others see them are more skilled at showing empathy and taking others’ perspectives. The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Be an Active Listener A group of advisors is an invaluable career resource.

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Developing The Creative Skills That Will Help You Become A Great Nonprofit Storyteller

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In part two of this series on the skills you need to be a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about how to engage your audience emotionally through creative storytelling. In the first part of this series, I talked about why you need to define your goals, your brand and voice, and your audience before crafting your story.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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One bit of wisdom is that like most skills, managing a remote team is both easier and more complicated than we could have imagined. These skills can now be put to use under less urgent circumstances. With limited access to body language, tone, and context, precise communication becomes an essential skill. How are you doing?

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. Branding depends on creating multiple messages that speak with one powerful voice across the association.

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Employee Resource Groups: The Classy Communities That Bolster Our Mission

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True to form, it is not surprising that our employees organically created what would soon be employee resource groups around common interests, identities, and causes. . We jumped at the opportunity to create resources for them to operate and thrive. . Classy Communities are Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Laying the foundation.

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