The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2024

Without it, nonprofits risk falling into the trap of poor decision-making, losing direction, and experiencing internal conflicts. They are the ones who can articulate a clear and compelling vision that resonates with both the team and the community they serve. But vision alone isn’t enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for annual planning and goal setting. Year in Review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart. 25) Keith McLane Keith L.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . Define your project and the project goals. By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is good to establish goals that are basic expectations and stretch goals. Managers should also make sure officers know how the manager is willing to support the officers on the way to their goal. Is the manager teeing the officer up for success with a portfolio of prospective donors that align with that officer’s goals?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Download the Ultimate RFP Template and Key Considerations GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - To offer a wide range of suppliers a chance to showcase their solutions and skills, companies choose to go the RFP route. These considerations include: Clear Objectives Clearly define the goals and objectives of the procurement effort.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Download the Ultimate RFP Template and Key Considerations GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - To offer a wide range of suppliers a chance to showcase their solutions and skills, companies choose to go the RFP route. These considerations include: Clear Objectives Clearly define the goals and objectives of the procurement effort.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Download the Ultimate RFP Template and Key Considerations Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems To offer a wide range of suppliers a chance to showcase their solutions and skills, companies choose to go the RFP route. Ensure that the chosen vendor aligns with the organization’s values and long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The goal is not to hoard it but to channel it. The book suggests that those who want to reach their goals and be successful whether it is for good, bad, or the trivial, need to know how to best channel this participatory energy. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ensuring that their goals align with yours. Over time you’ll benefit from their brand, skills or pro-bono services and if you play your cards right, financial support. If it’s a situation where by creating a volunteer opportunity to satisfy the corporate group, make sure you can articulate why it bears costs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

It can impact their capacities to achieve goals, their social impact and their missions. Leaders need to develop brand awareness, brand commitment, brand strategic thinking, flexibility, communication skills and teamwork. It is useful to be consistent among the internal and external stakeholders. Branding must be a priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I look for patterns.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

At the same time, leaders continue to struggle with one of their toughest jobs, developing and articulating their overall strategy and priorities, especially during times of change. David Grossman Messaging Management Leadership Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management General Management Skills Communications Skills'

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2019

It can impact their capacities to achieve goals, their social impact and their missions. Leaders need to develop brand awareness, brand commitment, brand strategic thinking, flexibility, communication skills and teamwork. It is useful to be consistent among the internal and external stakeholders. Branding must be a priority.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

Many folks who approach BoardAssist worry that all they will do on a nonprofit board is ask their friends for money – instead they want to be involved in using their management and strategy skills to some higher purpose. Can and do board members articulate this focus to others, particularly potential donors?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

This is a coachable skill. Your organization and four others are working at the same worthy goal with the same population but you each have a modestly different methodology. Can your board members and donors articulate your unique value proposition? If they don’t, discover why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Digital transformation also impacts training and teaching delivery as well as internal collaboration for staff. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For the past five years, I have been lucky enough to attend the Social Innovation Summit in Silicon Valley , an interdisciplinary conference that brings together leaders at the intersection of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business to share innovative ideas about social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Data are not linked to organizational resultsor mission-driven goals across programs. In addition to periodic check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes goal-oriented performance metrics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 13, 2012

Key takeaways from the book include : Vertical alignment describes a condition in which every employee can articulate the enterprise's strategy and explain how his or her daily work activities support that strategy. Each department and team must be able to see a direct relationship between what it does and this overarching goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

While a large percentage of our organization can articulate the importance of being on Facebook, very few staff can grasp how these tools will help to achieve our goals: greater awareness and involvement in the broader movement to address hunger. It is obvious that our skills directly translate into establishing an online presence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

In order for your community strategy to be sustainable, you need to be able to articulate value back to the organization. This value has to be articulated, at least in part, in the cultural language of your organization. Community managers need to be the “Internal Evangelist” for these companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The specific indicators of program success are below and were identified with input from participants: 100% of participants will develop an integrated and measurable social media strategy that furthers their communications work in population and reproductive health that aligned with institutional goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

It’s uncommon for a nonprofit to spend time developing and articulating their unique value proposition, but this is one area in which organizations should act like companies. Women for Women International is another example of an organization whose founder´s story is very much a part of its brand. Image from Flickr by Xurble.

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sgEngage

JUNE 25, 2024

In this article, we share insights from a white paper ‘The Importance of Charity Fundraising Technology’ to explore the significance of your technology vendor and internal team in digital transformation success. Building Your Team While your vendor and the technology solution play a key role, so does your internal team.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

So start with a goal. Articulate it clearly. Sometimes, that meant asking people to share opinions on our plans, to share stories for exhibitions, to share their skills in community programs. When I came to the MAH, one of our first goals was to make the space more welcoming for people. The sign DID accomplish that goal.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. But only 70% of that group is. So what does this mean?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike. They use these explicit goals as measuring sticks for the projects and experiments they pursue.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My goal was to find an incredible professional to work for in an institution that was small enough that I could actually make a contribution. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. Lay out your goals so they understand where you're heading and hopefully can help you get there.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But she’s like this fear buster to help you set your goal and just kind of like, “Great, it’s fear, embrace it. ” And so I was listening to this podcast, and she was talking about goal setting. And I’m a goal setter. It’s like, “Okay, take your goal.” We want to scale.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Not only were they from all over the country, but they all shared an international, multi-ethnic or cultural base. There's also criticism of international fair trade. What if the people that were employed by the government to plant them were actually skilled at producing food? There was definitely a theme among the women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools. Some of the posts shared some great case studies, insights, and tips about each step of the process: Set Goals. Want Useful Analytics?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

My goal here is to give you as much value as possible in lots of different ways. I really believe in it, but I’m going to have a fundraising goal and I’m going to have some responsibilities that I’m not sure I’m ready for it. So much accountability, but had no idea how I was going to get to that goal.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

This is not to say that the virtual designers didn't work hard to make their ideas in-line with our museum goals--in fact, we could have given them much clearer and stricter criteria and they would have thanked us for it. We lacked this staff member, and made up for it with a group of wonderful volunteers and an amazing intern, Sarah Cole.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010 Create Core Values Sometimes when you are leading an organization or business and struggling to articulate your core values, it helps to see how others have stated theirs. Below are the 10 core values of Zappos.com, a company founded in 1999 with the goal of becoming the premiere destination for online shoes.

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