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Adopting a New CRM? 4 Change Management Tips for Small Nonprofits

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The short answer: change management. What Is Change Management? Put simply, change management is making sure that the human element is always in the picture as new initiatives are put into play. Change initiatives present an ideal time to reflect on your organization’s culture. Sure, they do.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 204: Change Burnout vs. Change Management

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By implementing change management. Topics Discussed in This Episode: Why it’s important to talk about change management. Why you need to do some change preparation. How to make change less exhausting. The right questions to ask about change. Why the order of questions is important.

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Will Your Organization Be a Case Study for Innovation—or Irrelevance?

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Ask the Right Questions Before the Crisis Hits Forward-thinking organizations dont wait for disruption to force changethey anticipate it. That begins with asking the hard, future-focused questions: Are we designing our digital experiences around how our members work and live today? These arent questions you answer once.

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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. Change management can be a long and uncomfortable process, but the introspection and analysis help you find ways to improve and more closely align with your mission. Getting the right people in the room is key.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

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So, how can we strategically navigate change? It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Unplanned change – responding to the unexpected.

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

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Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change.

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Grantmakers’ Questions as a Way Toward Change

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Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions. Being targeted about the questions we ask on applications and throughout our grantee relationships helps to frame understandings, document learning, and identify challenges or barriers. or “What is the geographic location served?”

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