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Good Data Governance Equals Great Member Experiences

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The last thing you want to do is create roadblocks to the collaboration and agility needed for success in digital markets. Include benchmarks in goals and KPIs. Foster collaboration and ownership Create teams with representatives across departments to encourage shared ownership. Make data governance an organizational priority.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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To make a point about technology and its impact on the future of work, Hugh Lee, Co-Founder of Fusion Productions, told me this story: “Several years ago, we invited some young presenters who were developing cutting edge farming technology to digitalNow. Inspire Others The concept of the MVP encompasses more than product development.

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Four Critical Elements of Managing Development Officers

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The human talent component of fundraising is vital to a successful development office. Professional development officers are relationship builders. Blackbaud’s research, however, shows the average time from the first solicitation to a donor’s first gift is four years, yet the average development officer’s term is only 18–24 months.

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3 Steps to Write a Stellar Nonprofit Development Plan

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As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. This means that you’ll have to take a look at crafting a foolproof development plan. If that’s the case, have no fear!

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Networked Learning Loops Through Benchmarking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job

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Nonprofits are lucky to keep high-performing development professionals like her for 18 months. They need a supportive culture of philanthropy flowing throughout the organization that actively engages other staff, board, volunteers, and current donors to strengthen discovery, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. They are created with the biases and worldviews of those who developed them. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.