Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

My prior roles as a sales trainer and human resources consultant allowed me to build a company-wide reputation as an expert on complicated sales processes and navigating employee benefits and hiring processes. The question she posed to me next transformed my relationship with expertise for a lifetime.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here are tips for building an effective partner ecosystem for your grantmaking organization, including some common integration challenges to avoid. This is the first question you need to answer when building an effective partner ecosystem around your GMS. Define Your Needs What is the problem you are really solving for?

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A Building a great team starts with hiring the right people. The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Otter , the AI-powered meeting assistant and transcription service, is introducing a new AI agent capable of answering spoken questions from meeting participants in real time. When responding to questions,it can draw on both publicly available information for quick research queries and knowledge gained from previous company meetings.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Yet somehow, its the one goal your boss or your board gets the most excited about. If you want to turn one-time donors into lifelong supporters, you need to build out a new, personalized donor cultivation journey. Keep the questions short and focused, like What inspired your gift today?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It begs the question: Should empathy ever be put aside at work, or should we be doubling down on it? When we define empathy too narrowly, we overlook its power to build resilient, high-performing teams and boost engagement, collaboration, and innovation. Engagement is down and mental health issues are up. It was truly empathetic.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

For example, the answer to the question “Tell me about a project that you’re proud of” usually gets more weight in a job interview than the response to “Describe what you like best and least about your most recent position.” Along with years of corporate and nonprofit team building, Kevin is also a certified Myers-Briggs practitioner.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

I would also ask you questions about your company and its industry. I would ask you about your products or services, your target market, your competitive landscape, and your goals for the future. The responses to the few questions that I asked were nonsense. After Bard responds, the files can be deleted.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its critical to ask the right questions to ensure a good fit and that the candidate has the capacity to be an active and effective board member not just a name on the letterhead. Want to build a strong community of support around your mission? Make a list of what you need from the board for each organizational goal. Contact Us!

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

3 pricing mistakes your association should avoid As you build your association’s pricing strategy, there are several common mistakes you’ll want to avoid. Consider these questions to get to the heart of creating your pricing goals: What are our primary revenue goals? What are our costs?

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Greater Giving

MARCH 27, 2025

Building a strong online presence is one of the most exciting and impactful ways to amplify your nonprofits reach. Check out the World Wildlife Funds navigation menu: It features main headings that turn into drop-down menus based on visitors’ goals. Build Awareness on Social Media. This helps build an active following.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A website build or redesign has technical but also design and execution aspects. Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome. Confidence to initiate engagement with your staff and stakeholders and define roles and goals. Who will help with hands-on work?

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Set co-equal goals The essential first step is to intentionally set co-equal goals. The goal of any strategic planning process is to create a cohesive and focused strategy that will result in greater mission impact, and this was true for us. Build teams and leaders. And that would ultimately help us deliver on strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

If you build a strong brand identity on social media, people will be able to understand what your members stand for and whether your values align with theirs. There are a few important tips that you should follow when having a conversation with a prospective member; Answer questions as directly and succulently as possible.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Todays question comes from a nonprofit leader who wants metrics and advice on how to justify and calculate fundraiser salaries: Dear Charity Clairity, I am looking for some updated industry standards for fundraising metrics around staff positions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 17, 2022

Building a predictable revenue stream helps to reduce this imbalance and provide much needed support during your organization’s fallow periods. To start building your recurring giving program, identify your goals, analyze your audience, and plan a campaign to promote monthly giving. 4) Better Long-Term Planning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

Nonprofits can use AI-powered chatbots in mobile messaging platforms to interact with supporters, answer questions, provide information, and even facilitate donations. Nonprofits can then adjust their messaging tone and strategy to align with their supporters’ sentiments, communicate more effectively, and build stronger relationships.

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sgEngage

APRIL 14, 2025

From streamlined applications to implementing trust-based philanthropy principles, your grant management system can support your goals to improve your grantees well-being. Start by ensuring every question in your application collects data that will genuinely inform your funding decisions. Here are three ways you can get started.

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sgEngage

JUNE 6, 2024

Just as a successful capital campaign follows defined steps and milestones, so does the work of a database manager—nitty-gritty, behind-the-scenes tasks to keep the campaign moving toward its goal. Identify major donor giving potential and help build the gift pyramid, a crucial step in the first two phases of a campaign.

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Association Analytics

MAY 11, 2021

Then it’s time to begin a process for addressing that data, rather than setting an unrealistic goal to fix everything. While it is valuable for organizations to compile analysis questions from staff, members, volunteers, and board leadership, that alone is not an effective starting point for building a data strategy.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

In the update, Pinterest claims its goal in training AI is to "improve the products and services of our family of companies and offer new features." The company is also building a text-to-image "foundational" AI model, dubbed Pinterest Canvas , which it says is designed for "enhancing existing images and products on the platform."

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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. Taylor loves building relationships with Nimble AMS clients to help advocate for them. Your CSM team knows best!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Reflect on their business mission and goals. A simple question like, “What can I do to support you?” Play the long game Building strong peer relationships requires a long-term commitment to earning respect and trust over time rather than focusing on quick wins. Ensure that you understand how to help them.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

With a heightened focus on building new partnerships, the importance of stewardship is often overlooked in corporate fundraising. Stellar stewardship can deepen your relationship with your partners and help build trust in your area of expertise that in turn translates to positive funds for your mission. 3) Reporting Is Everything!

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Follow the steps in our blog to create a culture of change management and gain executive buy-in for new technology. How to build executive buy-in for new association management software Change is a process. Determining your current needs and how new technology can support your goals will help your organization set the scene for change.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is a tough yet vital question for nonprofits to ask. Understanding the Basics of Fundraising For those organizations new to fundraising, it’s important to start small and build gradually. But relying solely on grants has its downsides, especially when it comes to long-term sustainability.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Overall, Google.org funding recipients report that AI helps them achieve their goals in one third of the time at nearly half the cost. The most important question Project Evident asks when working with nonprofits on AI adoption is 'Why AI?'" This spans industries including education, health, workforce readiness, and more," she said.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

January is a great time to look to the year ahead and commit to new goals. Thats why organizations spend thousands of dollars on all-staff retreats, team-building activities, and happy hours. Building visibility for professional growth is a skill that requires thoughtfulness. Ask for what you want Managers arent mind readers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. At the dog park.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

We all have, ingrained within us, the drive to achieve and build. This is when the relentless inner voice questions every decision, amplifying every doubt, and making progress feel impossible. Prolonged stress can blur the line between external challenges and your personal goals, making it harder to navigate your path forward.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2021

With a solid year of virtual fundraising under our collective belt, let’s take a look at seven key lessons learned in 2020 to help your nonprofit continue reaching those goals and fighting for its mission. All of this helps to build community and create the spark we often only attribute to in-person interactions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Volunteers can have an enormous impact on reaching your goals. 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.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

1) Set Your Goals. First, you need to determine your key goals for the event and include them in your checklist. These goals will help you plan your event with a specific objective and fundraising target in mind. Ask yourself these questions to set effective goals: What is the purpose of the event?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Its a specific goal where you can control the outcome in some important ways. These three steps can be a great way to do so: Honor that goal of having a sense of control, and find a better way to get there. Answer this question: What do I want to do with AI now? It all comes down to bringing your focus to what you can control.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But making skill building an organizational priority is a hedge against the unknown that offers 360 degrees of current benefits. Be Aggressive About Learning If proactive skill-building isn’t part of your culture, it is time to consider a more aggressive approach to learning, development, and employee retention.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Many small nonprofits were started at the founders’ kitchen table, so there are often growing pains as the organization builds itself up. In change management, leadership addresses these essential questions: What does the team know about the change? First, ask yourself these questions: What things do we reward or encourage here?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible.

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