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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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The categories that are represented should reflect qualities that directors bring to the board as well as characteristics that will enhance the organization’s growth and development. Ideally, one of these meetings will be a welcome from the executive director, which includes his or her unique advice and views on board service.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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As many as five tiers of responsibility (junior positions, middle managers, executive staff, committees, and the board of directors) are not unusual. You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Remote work is challenging teams.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”

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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Yesterday, I was the honored guest at a Google Hangout hosted by the Packard Foundation to celebrate the work that I have done over the last five years as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. It was wonderful to see colleagues in the room and online, reflect on the work, and talk about next steps.

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Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Reflecting on the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic, David says, “I saw many leaders using this challenging time as an opportunity to stand up and lead in moving ways. Heart First is engaging, inspirational and packed with powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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5 DEI Strategies for Nonprofit Fundraising Success

Saleforce Nonprofit

Workshops, panels, discussions, mentoring, a thriving job board, and networking are all part of WOC, as well as a sister branch, Allies in Action , for white allies to support and learn. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge. A little more than one year later and we have over 1,000 members across all states in the U.S.

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Living Case Studies: Integrated Social Media Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a good idea to include a fun question appropriate to the audience to illustrate the technique. I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. How To Convince Policy Directors.