Bloomerang

MARCH 24, 2025

Circumstances change, community needs evolve, staff turnover stymies progress, supplementary funding falls through, and leadership priorities shift. Ask questions to get to the root of the problem. Meet – If the funder is amenable, request a meeting ahead of the report deadline for an honest conversation.

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Grant Goal Foundation Report 103

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

To help you capitalize on the start of the biggest donation season of the year, Classy.org is answering top questions from nonprofits that are zeroing in on the year-end giving season. To drive conversion and boost revenue, fundraising professionals will need to create campaigns that attract new supporters and prioritize donor experience.

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Giving Question Nonprofit Campaign 271

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Thats the conversation my recent Fast Company article sparked, and the response has been overwhelming. Workplace culture is changing fast, and leadership needs to evolve with it. Not every manager is a bad leadermany are undertrained , overwhelmed, or trying to adapt to the same changing workplace dynamics as everyone else.

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Leadership Culture Conversation Generation 111

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

In the past week, I had “conversations” with two leaders who talked too much. Characteristically, they asked few questions and, when they did, didn’t seem to be interested in my responses. His monologues were attempts to prove his wortha verbal rsum delivered even when no one had questioned his credentials.

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Team Leadership Influence Reflection 94

The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a reason for this change: storytelling is extremely important to good fundraising. As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. Sometimes this conversation happens in person or on the phone. Rule #4: Ask Open Ended Questions. Two Types of Non-Profit Storytelling.

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Story Fundraising Work Storytelling 350

Candid

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The idea was incubated in a Seattle nonprofit happy hour and expanded into a large convening of nonprofit workers, many of whom identified as BIPOC, to question the fundraising status quo. As practitioners, we make concrete changes to the way we engage in fundraising and share our learnings (i.e., Time is valued equally as money.

Community 111

Community Fundraising El Salvador Social 111

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. Review each goal of the strategic plan and ask these three questions : What are the most important things the board needs to do (versus the staff)?

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Interview Question Nonprofit Skills 52

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. We began this project because, as early adopters of digital solutions, we could see that technology was creating waves and that a rogue tsunami was not out of the question.

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Advice Associations Course Change 170

Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

Dynamic planning, namely the capability to look ahead and replan based on the flow of the conversation, is an essential ingredient for the making of engaging conversations with the deeper, open-ended interactions that users expect. To begin, the assistant steers the conversation to sharks via a sound quiz.

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Conversation Learning Open Sound 127

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Julia Campbell, host of the Nonprofit Nation podcast and founder of the Nonprofit Social Media Summit , a free all-virtual event created to help nonprofits navigate the fast-changing social media landscape to drive more donations. As nonprofit social media managers , we have to be thinking about conversions. Even better?

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Social Media Donor Media Social 295

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A digital impact report is an amalgamation of components demonstrating your organization’s impact – all your very best evidence of the ways in which you are changing lives for the better. This interactive format allows for real-time questions and discussions, making the information more accessible.

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Digital Impact Report Marketing 111

Association Analytics

DECEMBER 1, 2022

While change in your association is inevitable, it’s important not to change for change’s sake. To make a real impact, harnessing your association data as a guide to meaningful change will benefit your members — and your organization. The change curve] is steeper every year,” he said.”

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Associations Analytics Data Job 320

Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

But as the head of my family foundation, I believe we have to start conversations around wealth at a younger age. We must teach them the bigger picture of global issues and prepare them to use their future thought leadership and resources to participate in global change making. What is our purpose? Integrate your children.

Philanthropy 52

Philanthropy Change Create Children 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. The winning organizations were consistently exhibiting interesting characteristics, but we weren’t asking questions targeted at those characteristics. We needed to change up our questions.

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 110

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies. The worry about a steep learning curve is more of a mindset change, from letting go of doing the work from zero to 100% and shifting to focusing on the 80-100%. I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies.

Conversation 126

Conversation Nonprofit Adopt Generation 126

sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

But uncertainty and the prospect of change in the federal funding landscape make it particularly urgent for nonprofits to strengthen operations and to keep constituents aware of how they can help. Stakeholders will want to know that you are asking the right questions more than having all the answers right away.

Environment 98

Environment Communication Fund Donor 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

As this first impression can be hard to change, it’s worth taking your time to think about what you want to convey. Thankfully, many social media networks will have mechanisms that will allow you to have a private conversation. This will allow you to set-up pre-programmed responses for the most commonly asked questions.

Social Media 336

Social Media Associations Media Social 336

sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Coffman stated in their GuideStar article : Theres no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. Theres also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. A one-word change to a familiar tune changes the whole song.

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Measure Organization ROI Ratio 111

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

The COPD Foundation uses the Google Ad Grant to reach people who are Googling questions about COPD in particular or similar symptoms in general and directs them to the Screene r page on their website: Individuals can then fill out the free assessment to see if they are at an elevated risk for COPD. . In many cases, the answer is yes. .

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Grant Google Guide Websites 336

Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

One of the main areas that has seen renewed interest due to enhanced capabilities is chatbots and conversational AI. This in turn enables conversational AI and advanced chatbot applications that produce highly contextual and informed responses for users based on custom data models and sources.

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Conversation Guide Model Application 107

Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

His text wasn’t accusatory, but the change had certainly struck a chord. Participants said they were far more aware of read receipts in conversations with a romantic interest than with family, friends, or workers. It raised questions like Why would she wait? Name changed for anonymity What was the problem?

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Grant Social Media Communication Teach 121

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

Conversely, a rapid decline in active listings could suggest a market that is heating up. Conversely, local housing markets where active inventory remains far below pre-pandemic levels have, generally speaking, experienced stronger home price growth over the past 30 months.

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Marketing District of Columbia Florida Austin 100

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Answering commonly asked questions like What does [organization] do? We need to structure content to answer voice queries, tag our images for visual search tools, and create conversational interfaces with users. This change in search engines will winnow down the number of different sites that people visit. Use statistics.

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Search Strategy Change Homeless 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 17, 2020

In many cases, it would be a much more efficient use of time to cut way back on organic posts, and instead concentrate on developing a few really effective, conversions-focused ad campaigns. . If you tell it to get conversions, it will find the people who will actually convert. . 2) Learn how to run campaigns in-house.

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Charity Facebook Test Profit 331

Association Analytics

MARCH 1, 2023

From inflation to the increasing expectations of consumers and employees, to the continuously changing digital space, there are a lot of factors that might be currently impacting your association. Here are a few central questions to get you there: What is our association deeply passionate about? Read more about their story.

Associations 320

Associations Survey Data Product 320

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Communication Code book helps you set up conversations and communication in a way that creates a win-win scenario for everyone involved. Define the parameters of a conversation from the outset to avoid any misunderstandings. Understand the power dynamics of an interaction to eliminate the fear of honest conversation.

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Conversation Leadership Communication Relationship 105

Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Nonprofitsand international development organizations in particularare grappling with fast-changing realities. At Save the Children, we often have difficult conversations about exit ramps from communities where we have worked for decades. A good question to ask is: Would you want to be with these people in times of crisis?

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Challenge Tips Help Nonprofit 104

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Inviting them into conversations and acknowledging their expertise turned a skeptic into an advocate. I learned long ago the only behavior I can truly change is my own. Maybe theres something I can do to change it. A simple question like, “What can I do to support you?” Leadership starts with accountability.

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Sponsor Relationship Reflection Leadership 121

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Often the process takes great amounts of time, energy, and money, it strains relationships, and, in the end, doesn’t really strengthen the organization and nothing really changes. We also had hard conversations about mission (why we exist) and vision (what kind of world we’re working toward). If not, be bold and make a change.

Culture 89

Culture Leadership Strategy Celebrate 89

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2024

Use resources like Google and professional networks to ask questions. Put yourself in our shoes – would you spend 10-20 hours on a project if the person you’re sharing it with won’t give you time to answer a question? If you prefer to meet with consultants directly, consider a Request for Conversations.

Practice 279

Practice Nonprofit Proposal Listserv 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

In 2020, these steps will be a response to certain trends and conversations you’ve likely caught wind of over the last few years. The Rise of Giving Experiences and Conversations About Sustainable Impact. Part of staying privy to change and innovation across the space is keeping a pulse on trends still coming to fruition.

Trend 271

Trend Fundraising Philanthropy Donor 271

sgEngage

MAY 15, 2024

In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. This was a year-long project that required CDP to closely examine our processes and have bold conversations about how we wanted our grantmaking to look. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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Change Management Disaster Change Management 111

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When your nonprofit is looking to change its financial system, it would be nice to have a crystal ball. Ask your fund accounting vendor these questions to help you get a full picture of their capabilities and whether they meet the needs of your organization, both now and in the future. Unfortunately, you don’t have a crystal ball.

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Question Fund Integration System 105

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. And then everything changed. It can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. Until I tried it.

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Content Social Media Calendar Fundraising 352

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Davidson was right: It not only transformed our conversation, but the entire nature of my day. In our conversation, he explains why our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the world are the product of the stories that we tell ourselves. We can see functional changes in the brain after just a few hours of practice.

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Brain Mind Practice Relationship 124

Singularity Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

And can we foresee how this may change human knowledge, for better or worse? A user can pose any question to their AI assistant, and for the most part, will receive a competent answer. The question of whether generative AI promotes these qualities is an open one, and evidence is so far mixed. Read the original article.

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Knowledge Generation Technology Press 104

.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

She was talking about how unprepared we were for the dramatic changes we experienced. There are endless unanswered questions about where technology, and particularly AI, will take us, our lifestyles, and our careers. Change Without Changing “AAHA has been around for 90 years,” Garth notes. That’s a major change.

Associations 221

Associations Conversation Retention Measure 221