NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We’ve been helping fundraising teams maximize year-end funds for over four decades, and we’ve packaged our expert insights into our new End-of-Year Fundraising Toolkit. It’s packed with proven templates, checklists, and expert advice to help fundraisers tackle end-of-year planning from GivingTuesday to New Year's Eve.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve been helping fundraising teams maximize year-end funds for over four decades, and we’ve packaged our expert insights into our new End-of-Year Fundraising Toolkit. It’s packed with proven templates, checklists, and expert advice to help fundraisers tackle end-of-year planning from GivingTuesday to New Year's Eve.

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Fundraising Blackbaud Template Advice 241

Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this roundup, I compiled the best year-end fundraising advice from several nonprofit consultants in my network. If you had one piece of advice for successful end-of-year fundraising what would it be? Successful teams are wise and disciplined enough to start NOW. Just start now with this year-end fundraising advice.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 15, 2024

Packed with practical advice and proven best practices, the Field Guide will help you boost the performance of your direct mail and digital fundraising, and serve as a collaborative checklist of tactics for you team. Download your free copy of this celebrated resource now!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2025

Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to recognize and credit donor-advised fund gifts in their CRM: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a nuanced question on how to record DAF gifts in my CRM. My advice is to recognize them as described below in Third. Is it the name of the bank, or the name of the fund?

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Gift Grant Charity Sponsor 114

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2024

As your organization plans to leverage your association management software (AMS) to meet your goals, it’s important to work with your customer success team to ensure you’re getting the most out of your AMS. Meet the Nimble AMS Customer Sucess Manager team! Read our blog for helpful tips to get started!

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2024

If possible, time is well spent meeting with all members of the nonprofit team across all departments. The post Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job appeared first on Bloomerang. Focus on winning the inside of the nonprofit before focusing on donor prospects and external friends.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In what ways does technology boost your team’s efficiency and grantmaking—and in what ways can it hold you back? This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. Everyone on the island suffered a loss.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. I’m not a big fan of governance; I think if you engage as a team member with a founder, you have much more influence than if you’re sitting on a board and voting,” he said.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Like all big challenges, building a fundraising program is best tackled as a team, with your whole organization offering expertise and ideas in advance of the first campaign. It is always a bonus if your team has personal qualities like integrity, leadership skills, and outstanding manners. Be bold and get started!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

If you take Matthew’s excellent advice, a great option is to invest in nonprofit system integration. Maximize your team’s time and energy. . Ask any member of your team if they enjoy manually wrangling data from system to system through data entry, exports and imports, spreadsheets, and worse.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2024

What is your biggest piece of advice for other small organizations to operate,grow, and transform? For small nonprofits, my biggest piece of advice is to embrace technology. I immediately tasked my team with creating a recruiting platform tailored to military veterans, and the results were remarkable.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Were working in a world of hybrid teams, instant messaging, and four generations collaborating side by side. If youve been told that you need to get better at influencing upward, then youve probably received some of this advice: Come with solutions, not problems! Your promotion gets delayed despite your teams record-breaking quarter.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Leverage Your Event Committee for Outreach Sponsorship solicitation is often a team effort. TIP: Provide your team with a sponsorship toolkit, including email templates and event collateral, to ensure consistent messaging. Engage your board members, staff, event committee, and volunteers to tap into their networks.

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Create Sponsor Social Media PDF 97

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Heres some advice on how to produce a more compelling application for Fast Companys Best Workplaces for Innovators 2025. How big was the team? The most frequent mistake companies make when applying? They fail to focus on a single, representative example of internally grown innovation. Get Real Jargon won’t win you any awards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

Part 4: Lead Your Team gives approaches for generating and creating the most effective teams and having more fun while doing it. Mindy Mackenzie A preview of Mackenzie's advice on Leading Your Boss includes: Intensely study your boss to get to know the human being behind the mask.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

When you turn to another person for relationship advice, whether that’s a trusted friend or therapist, you often start by discussing what’s bothering you. If data is saved on a team member’s personal drive, or worse, doesn’t exist at all, your association’s data is not going to be accessible when you need it. Sound familiar?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company s work-life advice column. But, a manager sets the tone for their team and if they are burned out, their entire team will likely follow suit. Want more advice on helping burned out managers? Q: I think my manager is burned out. What can I do? Here you go: Managers are not okay.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

Thats why organizations spend thousands of dollars on all-staff retreats, team-building activities, and happy hours. For example, if the executive team is discussing which employees to include in a new working group or leadership opportunity, its helpful if theyre aware of who you are. Share them in the comments below.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. Ask for advice on how to improve it.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 17, 2023

Data teams are more important than ever before — but they need to get closer to the business. Over the past decade, data teams have been simultaneously underwater and riding a wave. For data teams, the bill has come due. Of course, data teams didn’t go rogue. In other words, data teams need to get closer to the business.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

If you have experienced breaches in the security/privacy category, my advice is to immediately begin remediation. Put People First Your data governance policy will be a document that reflects your organization’s unique culture, teams, and members. Don’t expect your teams to figure this out. Include benchmarks in goals and KPIs.

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Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. Having a good board agreement and bylaws in place—with the help of legal advice—at the beginning can head off some of the challenges discussed below.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. You never know, the VC who passes on your pitch may recommend you to a founder that’s building a team. “IP is important to us. .”

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

She has a robust background working with fund development programs and implementing new practices with her team. Q 2: What’s your advice to someone who wants to grow their career in advancement operations, particularly someone who is aiming to get into a leadership role? This is the team that pays attention to the details.

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.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

podcast , Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and Jennifer Proctor ,orgSource consultant, explored the challenges involved with giving ourselves and our teams room to grow. For some teams, the trek is more rigorous than for others.” Disengaging with your team and/or your supervisors.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Invite your investment team to explain your organization’s allocation and risk strategies and investment reports. Make it Meaningful This is probably my most important piece of advice. Be sure to allow time for questions. Ask fundraising or deferred giving experts to discuss estate planning. Online courses. Tell your financial story.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

This biaseven if it was rooted in experienceinterfered with our ability to engage positively with the team. Unsolicited advice: If I were in your shoes. A leader of a team in another department confides in you how difficult it is for them to take a vacation and totally unplug from work.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

This advice is especially relevant for anyone looking to attract a younger audience. My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. Take Hardy’s advice. Make it Easy Once you’ve identified a prospect, make playing on your team an opportunity that’s easy, fun, and offers some kind of ROI.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The.orgSource and.orgCommunity teams send our best wishes to our clients and friends for a happy and productive 2023. Jamie Notter, Co-Founder at Propel , showed us how to integrate culture, strategy, and execution to help teams deliver peak performance and improve employee retention. “If Our Year in Review. Leadership.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Involve the marketing team in strategic decision-making. You can’t know, what you don’t know.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Because it takes “about 15 touches for a prospect to want to see a demo,” Tong authored a TC+ guide for CEOs who need guidance around hiring and incentivizing SDR teams. TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 key hiring metrics, building SDR teams, insurtech investor survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Don’t miss out on top strategies for doubling or even tripling your revenue with practical advice on how to align your tech & teams to exceed your goals. Join us for an enlightening session on how to leverage matching gifts during the crucial end-of-year giving season to boost your fundraising outcomes.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Furthermore, your prospect should have taken at least one step, if not more, to becoming part of your “team.” Send the prospect a handwritten note thanking them for their time, then go back to them in a couple of weeks to ask them for their advice on one or two items with your organization. Get them involved on a committee.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

The willingness to scrutinize performance on an ongoing basis begins with the board and the management team. A dip in numbers is an opportunity for teams to respond quickly to rising issues or challenges. These integrated teams work across the organization and are important to moving quickly and effectively.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Turn the focus away from individual success and toward team building.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

The team at Giveffect , comprised of former nonprofit professionals and technologists with experience working closely with nonprofits to build the best all-in-one nonprofit software solution, compiled the top three tips to increase volunteer engagement. The more your team is involved, the closer you will connect with your volunteers.

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