Nimble AMS

JANUARY 5, 2024

And encouraging your staff to adopt new association management software can prove to be even more challenging. However, if it’s time for your association to adopt new technology, it will become crucial to get your employees on board with the change.

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Adopt Associations Technology Gartner 118

sgEngage

JULY 5, 2024

Before you decide to add another layer of duct tape to your current system, here are a few tips to make sure you ask the right questions and identify your current and future needs so you get the accounting software that will help your organization grow. An external subject-matter expert can also assist with the change management aspect.

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Fund Software Phase Chart 92

EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

from our friends at ParsonsTKO Selecting technology for a nonprofit or social good organization can take significant time and effort. Depending on the size, reach, and impact anticipated from a technology change, engaging the board of directors is often critical to your success. Let’s dive in. Try one (or both!)

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Technology Change Tech Analysis 186

sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Now it’s time to elevate your game by registering for bbcon 2024 sessions that are designed just for your goals and interests. This session is designed as an interactive panel, with a brain trust of long-time Raiser’s Edge masters. Here’s a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Congratulations! New to bbcon? Need answers?

Seattle 84

Seattle Blackbaud Analytics Database 84

sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

In a culture that supports innovation, everyone feels encouraged and confident to brainstorm, introduce new ideas, ask questions, and start conversations in order to identify opportunities for enhanced impact. Encourage your team to spend time getting creative, learning, or simply brainstorming.

Culture 88

Culture Create eBook Attitude 88

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As systems and processes are being re-written, it’s an ideal time to set new goals, experiment with different processes, and emerge stronger on the other side of your transition. This is the time to question how things have always been done and consider changes that will expand your institution’s reach. You’ve got this!

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Change Management Change Management Tools 26

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. This short paragraph should answer questions such as: Why is this project worth doing? Risks No change management undertaking is without its risks. Why is it important to do it now?

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Project Fund Software Help 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. Everything changes autonomously, of its own accord. ".

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Change Management Social Media Adopt Change 66

Nimble AMS

JUNE 29, 2023

Your consultant might help you identify the answers to these questions: What does your organization hope to achieve with a new AMS? Help ask AMS vendors tough questions. Attempting this process independently can be time-consuming and challenging for your staff. What problems are you hoping to solve with new technology?

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Consultant Benefit Work Associations 128

Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

The strategic planning process is a rare chance for a nonprofit’s leaders to step back and look at their organization and its activities as a whole—to understand what success looks like and to allocate time, talent, and dollars to the activities that can help achieve it. Change management needs to be built in from the beginning.”

San Francisco 93

San Francisco Nonprofit Metrics Boston 93

sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whether you’ve been updating your forms or waiting for the next grant cycle, we have several sessions to help you streamline your application process, saving time for both you and your applicants. Using conditional logic will reduce the number of application forms you need to manage as a funder, while saving time for applicants.

Guide 93

Guide Blackbaud Seattle Disaster 93

sgEngage

JULY 22, 2024

Here are five questions to consider as you start to update your grant application. As you review each question and process around your application, clearly define how it reflects your mission and your priorities. Potential grantees don’t want to waste their time—or yours—completing an application that isn’t a good fit.

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Application Grant Language Review 78

The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Levey Are the good times for nonprofit fundraisers, if not back, at least on the horizon? During boom times, fundraisers (as do most marketers) are more likely to increase attention on acquisition efforts and reduce their focus on retaining donors. This adoption is made possible through strong change management practices.”

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Stream Gift Data South Carolina 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2023

A holistic provider may ask more probing questions than a traditional doctor. Some have years of experience and are leading with the knowledge and resourcefulness they have acquired over time. Nine out of ten times a senior leader can quickly engage in a full conversation with these simple prompts.

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Consultant Culture Nonprofit Issue 87

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies.

Latvia 114

Latvia Companies North America San Francisco 114

The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Are the good times for nonprofit fundraisers, if not back, at least on the horizon? During boom times, fundraisers (as do most marketers) are more likely to increase attention on acquisition efforts and reduce their focus on retaining donors. This adoption is made possible through strong change management practices.”

Stream 64

Stream Gift Data South Carolina 64

sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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Relationship Practice Build Evaluation 105

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. That makes you a vital part of any change management conversation, but you may not always be asked to the table.

Blackbaud 89

Blackbaud Chart Denver Nonprofit 89

Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

It is perhaps the most important asset to further your mission and accomplish your organizational goals, so when it’s time to undertake a redesign, planning is of the utmost importance. Here are some questions to answer when looking at forming a personalization plan: Why are you personalizing?

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Websites Change Management Digital Government 61

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere. Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? The challenge isn’t knowing what to do.

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Application Leadership Grant Philanthropy 100

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sadly, many current change efforts that try to incorporate knowledge work for social good end up with disjointed or burdensome lists of isolated activities that really aren’t very engaging or valuable. Knowledge, however, is socially constructed and located specifically in place and time. Information is all around us.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 76

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Organized around the four phases of change, Feifer shares personal insights and learnings from his interviews with success entrepreneurs and changemakers who have experienced tectonic shifts in work, culture, and life. Change is coming. Question : Change is one of the most difficult things for people. But it's not.

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Change Phase Action Demonstration 98

Forum One

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some common focus areas for investments in government digital transformation might include using and optimizing data and analytics collection, updating IT infrastructures, migrating data and files to a cloud storage, and facilitating change management. Organize for success. FAQs on government digital transformation.

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Government Digital Fund System 88

sgEngage

AUGUST 7, 2024

Envisioning the process from end-to-end allows those in charge of a system change to anticipate questions, concerns, and pain points from all team members and stakeholders affected by the new system. Understanding the Timeline Implementing a new fund accounting system typically requires time and effort from multiple parties.

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System Fund Practice Free 73

sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

The ongoing FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) delays have left students with less time to compare financial aid offers and make a college decision than in a typical year. There is no doubt about it—students are confused, and they are questioning whether college is obtainable without financial help. Provide flexibility.

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Impact Student Alternative Education 73

Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Here are some volunteer management app features that can benefit your staff: Birds’-eye view of your entire volunteer program schedule. This can also help you easily analyze shift attendance in real time. Ensure your volunteer management app allows volunteers easy access to their schedules to help reduce no-shows.

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Volunteer Track Mobile Benefit 86

sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

Maybe your organization even uses some early AI for administrative tasks, like a chatbot for questions. On its face, this seems at best a pleasant distraction, or maybe just a waste of time. A chatbot could help your applicants overcome issues with access or help troubleshoot questions during the application process.

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Grant Application Process Fund 85

NTEN

JULY 7, 2014

The pursuit of social change globally requires visionary thinking regarding a nonprofit's IT strategy. Now is the time to think about why and how. Change Management cloud technology Leadership' Karen Appleton.

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Technology Change Management Global Nonprofit 83

Nucleus

MARCH 2, 2021

of mainstream companies report that they continue to struggle with cultural challenges relating to organizational alignment, business processes, change management, communication, people skill sets, and resistance or lack of understanding to enable change. There is no question that Big Data has been absorbed into the mainstream.

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Associations Data Analytics Culture 130

sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

But there must also be a different way to understand the nonprofit CFO role, by asking what questions plague the minds, hearts, and souls of today’s nonprofit CFOs. One of the questions that you should always ask when you’re interacting with your program and development teams is, “How can finance help your department grow and maximize impact?”

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Roles Culture Nonprofit Structure 84

sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

It is tailor-made for that organization and does everything the customer needs it to do in the way that works best for that team at that point in time. It locks that organization into a static workflow that can only be changed by hiring cost-prohibitive engineers to make updates to the system’s code. You’re a peer group of one.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

If you have any question, send me an email ! change management Change Management Digital Strategy intensive it Leadership Leadership nonprofit tech academy NTA social media Staffing Strategy IT Staff' Thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. To be considered, apply by Tuesday, April 8.

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Tech Application Classes Change Management 84

sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

You love what you do, but sometimes it seems there’s never enough time, staff, and resources to get ALL the things done while taking care of yourself at the same time. Start small by considering this question: what’s our vision for what we want well-being to look like for our team and/or organization over the next 90 days?

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Culture Consultant Calendar Team 82

sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Is it just a fad? ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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Model Italy Test Generation 78

Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2021

Start by asking yourself how you and your organization reacted to change last year, and how those reactions can be different in the future. Then, follow these tips to get your change management creative juices flowing! For each change listed, add a sentence or two to support your reasoning for the change.

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Change Tips Attitude Poll 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Embracing the notion of shared meaning making enables us to name the specific ways that knowledge work supports both effectiveness of grantmaking AND social change at the same time. Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions. or “What is the geographic location served?”

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

If you are still hosting the data and applications that you’re using to run your core operations and development efforts—from your accounting software to your donor relationship management and fundraising systems—on premises, you are not setting your future organization up for success.

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Tools Application Nonprofit Software 80