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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Focus on Mentoring Sue is a relationship builder. Providing personal support, fosters a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency.” Leadership training helps directors to learn and practice the skills needed to navigate the complexities of board service. Mentoring is something I am passionate about,” Sue advised.

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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. This means their voices hold power in a range of ways.

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Generalizing Your Mission Won’t Help Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

To fundraise for your organization effectively, you must be specific in your mission and define your audience to generate the right support.

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EI Helps Teams Use Technology to Fly

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Support Adaptation Emotional intelligence offers a path to support teams and helps them acquire the skills to become digitally proficient. Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. Empathy helps teams see beyond differences and connect on a human level.

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How To Build Great Work Relationships

Eric Jacobsen Blog

It’s called, Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships. So even if they’re not all perfect, it’s worth it to build connections that will provide you with support, help you network and learn, and keep your career moving forward,” shares HBR. We probably spend more hours with our coworkers than with anyone else.

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Visibility and relationships: Effective fundraising for small nonprofits

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Grassroots organizations provide vital services to local communities, yet they struggle to compete for grants against large national nonprofits that can leverage robust development teams, considerable fundraising experience, and established relationships with grantmakers. Here are some steps to get started.

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How Storytelling Can Help Personalize Donor Communications

NonProfit PRO

Nonprofits that create an internal storytelling culture can excite staff and volunteers, entice new supporters, strengthen relationships with donors, and raise more funds. Nonprofits have more stories at their fingertips than any other organization.