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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations.

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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Your challenges? Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. Reach out to colleagues, friends, mentors, and professional acquaintances—anyone you know who may have connections or recommendations for prospective board members.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

Nonprofits Source

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Before we go over how to implement new strategies to engage employees, let’s discuss the challenges many businesses and nonprofits face when it comes to employee engagement, such as: Insufficient training.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

Qgiv

Whether you’re a brand-new nonprofit looking to recruit your very first volunteers or are a seasoned pro, it’s important to first evaluate and assess your volunteer needs and to do so frequently. Of course, be sure to work with your staff team to get an outside perspective and seek advice from trusted colleagues, mentors, and managers.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first technique I used to get at individual understanding of the design challenge. It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

He’s now one of my mentors, advisors, and dear friends. So I can see your point and are you open to hearing my perspective? Nathan, he is another mentor and friend of mine who believes in knowledge and statistics and database. . So being curious, inviting a dialogue by opening up the dialogue, all right?

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