sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Coalescing every member of your organization around the same goals and expectations can help you avoid several common roadblocks before they get in the way of your implementation. For most organizations, the ideal implementation timeline is around 90 days, split more or less evenly among three phases: Preparation and planning (days 1–30).

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System Fund Practice Free 75

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. What are each of their personal aims, goals, values? Appeal to the organization’s goal.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Begin with a phased approach. You probably have a long list of great things you want to accomplish this year…including making analytics a priority. Next, define the outcomes you hope to achieve.

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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

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Mentoring Work Articulate Phase 52

Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Making sure that our visions align is crucial, and success depends heavily on communication: asking the right questions from the start and helping whoever the request is coming from to articulate their needs when they might lack the creative language to do so feasibly. This is why a descriptive paragraph can be helpful.

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Process Design Articulate Nonprofit 52

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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Gift Tips Metrics Articulate 82

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Philanthropy loves “new” things.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 71

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2020

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 52

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The degree to which a nonprofit can articulate the strength of its reach, resources, reputation, and capabilities is an important key in securing productive collaborative relationships. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals. Here are some things to think about: What is the primary purpose (goal) of the campaign? Personalizes a fundraising goal.

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email Communication Create Fundraising 77

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Candid

MAY 20, 2021

There’s no reason why organizations can’t use the key principles of capital campaign fundraising to reach smaller goals over shorter periods of time. Figure out how much addressing that need will cost and develop a working goal for the campaign. Identify the 20 people you can reach out to for the top three or four gift levels.

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Campaign Time Articulate Gift 80

The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

It encourages brains to come together, keeps everyone rowing in the same direction, and brings a laser-like focus to hitting those big, audacious goals. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve. Now, who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

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Profit Guide Build Metrics 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2017

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

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Mentoring Tips Articulate Phase 43

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

Create a statement that paints a picture of a future state — the goal or outcome of the project. This will help explain why your organization is doing the project in the first place, why you’re doing it now, and keeps everyone moving towards the same goals. Think of it as a mission statement for the project.

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Change Management Change Management Technique 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. Mentoring focuses on big-picture, long-term goals. What do you hope to achieve with your partnership? The mission statement should reflect this.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

I was excited to take my learning much deeper with a two-day immersive workshop with participants who run innovation labs. The sessions focused on how to combine various techniques together to achieve a specific goal and while there was a lot of “ facilitating with sticky notes ,” the overall process was larger than that.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

He then quotes Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, who has described this phase of the IT revolution with the acronym SOCIAL: “ S , he says, is for speed — everything is now happening faster. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. O , he says, stands for open.

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Develop Technology Social Articulate 97

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform. You could, for example, have a goal of reaching 50% of your fundraising goal on the first day of your campaign (Giving Tuesday!). Set a clear goal.

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Campaign Ideas Giving Tips 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. Or would a “phase 2″ be more appropriate for some items? Executive Vision and Involvement.

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Project Articulate Nonprofit Adopt 37

Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2017

Learn more about each phase in the feasibility study process with Double the Donation’s step-by-step guide ! This essential document will emphasize the value of your capital campaign to donors by detailing your process and end goals shaped by your feasibility study. Don’t knock the benefits of outside assistance.

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Studies Practice Game Change 27

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In addition to a sponsor, I’d suggest creating a committee of key leaders within the organization to act as a steering committee for the initiative, ensure clear communication at the executive level, and foster organization-wide focus on project objectives (more on articulating the value of an IT project here ).

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Project Adopt Change Management Team 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. 100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media.

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India NGO Network Exercise 103

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. Compared to when fundraising expectations are not clearly articulated during board recruitment. But only 70% of that group is.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 62

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And that really stuck with me because we have this idea, not everybody, but lots of us, that we got to focus on the organization’s goal and then we just get the people to fill in. And the reality is that it is not sustainable over time to burn the people to get to the goal. Are we looking at flexible hours?

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Work Management Video Slides 94

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2014

In thinking about some of the changes that have happened at our museum in Santa Cruz, I''ve realized that they were predicated on setting a clear, big vision first, and then incrementally moving towards that goal. When there is a very clear, explicit vision and goals, many people across an organization can become leaders in the change.

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Change New Jersey Articulate Museum 35