Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Expanding the DEI lens: Equitable and inclusive structures In 2015, we focused on building a solid HR infrastructure, constantly evaluating our efforts in the context of DEI. We also included staff who were not in traditional leadership roles but demonstrated a strong interest in DEI.

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Culture Structure Phase Roles 92

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Whether you’re just starting out or already have a Board in place, you need to understand the role of your nonprofit’s Board so you can support people to understand and fulfill their roles and responsibilities. Let’s look at the 10 basic roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors.

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Director Roles Nonprofit Evaluation 116

Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

While usage is a great data point to evaluate your product’s success, there’s so much more to consider when weighing the options to build an in-house solution or use an off-the-shelf product. Throughout the evaluation process, it’s important to keep your association’s unique goals and success metrics top-of-mind.

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Software Build Analytics Associations 321

Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

They feel their philanthropic investments are de-risked when they evaluate opportunities as a group with unique perspectives and when they can experience community building in the process. Yet, despite the important role of women in philanthropy, there remains a significant gap in engaging young women during their formative years.

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Philanthropy Change Create Children 52

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. The Critical Questions will prompt you to evaluate your organization’s current status. And, the Transformational Strategies offer guidance to create the change needed for growth.

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Advice Associations Course Change 170

Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As of May 2024, the MMMU benchmark , which evaluates responses to college-level questions, scored GPT-4o at 60%, compared with an 83% human average. AI plays a pivotal role in the nonprofit sector The challenges related to AI bias and affordability highlight the importance of community-centered and responsible AI development.

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Help Nonprofit Benchmark Voice 98

sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. By embracing a community leadership role, foundations can amplify their impact and empower grantees to achieve long-term, sustainable success.

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Foundation Leadership Roles Community 97

sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Program Timeline. Measurement Plan.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What specific roles will staff and volunteers play? Here is a quick checklist to bear in mind when recruiting new volunteers for your event: Create volunteer roles with detailed descriptions. Create accessible volunteer schedules with shift and assigned roles. What food and drinks will you be serving? 6) Market Your Event.

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Nonprofit Registration Volunteer Fundraising 105

sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Employee Roles and Responsibilities Define clear policies regarding employee roles, especially for those who might help with on-the-ground cleanup efforts versus those who will keep the organization running. Conduct a Risk Assessment Evaluate your organization to identify which processes would be most impacted by a climate event.

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Disaster Hurricane Philanthropy Resource 83

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Social media’s role in Giving Tuesday success . Giving Tuesday hinges on the increased role social media plays in our daily lives, which means your nonprofit should make sure you’re set up for success by using these tools to your full advantage. . Evaluate their feedback and make changes as appropriate.

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Roles Giving Social Social Media 128

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Operating reserves play a dual role in supporting nonprofit organizations. Long-Term Strategic Shifts Operating reserves provide flexibility to invest in new opportunities or experiments to meet the changing needs of your community. If you can give your organization a long life, you can help more people.

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Management Policy Disaster Gift 99

.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

This comprehensive exploration of your digital systems could include evaluating security, network functions, system management, user experience, and overall performance. Acknowledge Change Isn’t it enough that you did your research and purchased a tech stack that fits your needs? Culture, strategy, and talent play important roles.

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Technology Evaluation Attitude Digital 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Although 73% of participants agreed that accelerating trends would require fundamental changes in the roles of associations. A post-pandemic business environment, characterized by change and disruption, provides good reasons to open the windows and let fresh air revitalize, even fundamental concepts.

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Voice Associations Culture Environment 221

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

It looks at how European philanthropy can apply foresight and futures thinking to be forward-looking, risk-taking, and innovative while navigating an ever-changing philanthropy landscape. Data and AI play an increasingly important role in all facets of philanthropy. Dollars and Change by GivingTuesday, Network for Good, and Candid.

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Issue Resource Philanthropy Children 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

Evaluating and selecting an award management system can be complicated. Your new system should evolve alongside your institution and be sophisticated enough to adapt and change as you streamline and hone processes. Change management is key to success. Most people are nervous about change, and some may be wary of new technology.

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Award System Management Student 73

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. This is a tall order—however, to maximize the impact of your investment these fundamental changes are necessary. These roles need not be filled by the management team.

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Collaboration Digital Organization Build 44

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All board members reviewed the organization, top to bottom, made changes, and seven years later, they are back on solid ground. Jeff Guyett from Community Action Center A Commitment to the Entire Role, Not Just the Fun Parts It’s important for board members to understand that they can’t selectively fulfill their duties.

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Skills Children Collaboration Leadership 106

sgEngage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

If your organization is using or exploring AI-enabled tools as part of your grantmaking processes, you need an AI policy that represents your mission, incorporates the needs of your staff, and evolves as the tools change. Establish a process for updating and adapting your AI policy in alignment with these changes.

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Policy Organization Create Guidelines 94

.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. IT specialists will also play a significant role. Don’t try to write rules in stone, circumstances change.

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Team Evaluation Attitude Survey 221

.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Understand the Imperative To keep pace with member expectations, acknowledging that disruption and change are business as usual is critical. Self-evaluation isn’t easy. Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge. This post is Part Two.

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Exercise Phase 221

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Of course, the promise is that AI will create jobs, too , and weve already started to see emerging roles like prompt engineers and AI ethicists crop up. On the final episode in The New Way We Work s mini-series on how AI is changing our jobs, I spoke to Lorena Gonzalez.

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Podcast Job Industry Guidelines 84

Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The way we work is rapidly evolving amid societal and industry changes in a post-pandemic world. This new vision has led nonprofit organizations to reconsider how to best leverage talent in a changing landscape. The movement signals a new era of work, one where professionals value autonomy over security and innovation over tradition.

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Work Nonprofit Consultant Professional 64

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Be sure to share your training process and volunteer expectations to help your volunteers understand their role. Not every nonprofit has a person whose sole role is coordinating or managing volunteers. The role your volunteers play within your organization to achieve your goals. Have a shift change?

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Volunteer Management Tips Nonprofit 281

Gyrus

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Evaluate Compliance-Specific Features Once compliance needs are defined, organizations should focus on evaluating LMS platforms based on their compliance-specific features. Organizations should evaluate the user management capabilities of potential LMS platforms. Evaluate employee performance and engagement.

Life 52

Life Train Training Evaluation 52

.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

That dramatic entrance has changed the role of CTOs. Strengthening your EI muscle helps to support others through change and to better understand their reactions to new ways of doing business. Try taking these EI quizzes for a more comprehensive self-evaluation. The role of CTO isn’t getting easier.

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Technology Skills Leadership Awareness 221

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This representative should be dedicated to building lasting relationships with members and helping your organization fine-tune culture, products, and services to meet their changing needs. There are many areas where the two roles overlap. They should be an empath who channels both your brand persona and its audience.

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Experiment Marketing Game Gartner 44

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Betsy is a recognized social entrepreneur who has dedicated much of her career to changing the world with software. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. I can assure you that I am not retiring.

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News Syria Conservancy eBook 189

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. Whether you are working within a funding organization or on the ground in social change, developing an effective knowledge practice will help to advance strategic missions and goals. Fast forward to today….

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 93

Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But that all changed in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic forced digital onto the front burner. Successful digital transformation doesn’t isolate itself within a single department or working group; it should change how every team and branch of your organization approaches its work. Your mission depends upon it.

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Digital Time Nonprofit Strategy 104

Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measurable training metrics may include completion rates, engagement rates, course evaluations, and assessment scores. These include advanced reporting, evaluations, and gap analysis. GyrusAim LMS helps employees, supervisors, and administrators spot gaps in job roles, organizational needs, or certification training requirements.

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Analytics Measure Train Training 59

.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

In my role, I oversee departments that interact with employees throughout the organization. If we wanted to change our group dynamics, we had to live the example. Evaluate Alignment “Maintaining a consistent relationship between mission, vision, and customers is critical for a successful company,” Randy advised. “We

Culture 221

Culture Skills Collaboration Associations 221

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A final word about giving trends and your role Remember, a trend means something is shifting , either as a general inclination or movement, or in a statistically noticeable way. Now is the time to re-evaluate your primary fundraising strategies. Why is this important? 88% of nonprofits have budgets under $500,000.

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Tips Strategy Volunteer Story 114

sgEngage

MARCH 25, 2025

Your organizations management will need to respond to inquiries from the CPA and provide explanations for any anomalies or significant changes noted during the analytical procedures. An annual financial audit is an in-depth evaluation of your organization’s financial records, conducted by an independent CPA.

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Review Nonprofit Blackbaud Fund 80

.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. The pandemic will not be the last catastrophic disruption or paradigm-changing event. Evaluate your current community and identify where expanded representation might be beneficial.

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Collaboration 221

Tableau

AUGUST 4, 2021

At the same time, good, comprehensive data on policing can play a pivotal role in illuminating where change is most needed, and the solutions that could have the greatest positive impact. Looking at the data in the Scorecard, Sinyangwe says, is a way to understand where the greatest need for change is for specific agencies.

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Data Change Raleigh Metrics 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2023

This means that AI tools will play a very important role in the future of fundraising. This technology is particularly valuable for mission work, such as monitoring changes in wildlife populations or evaluating the effectiveness of conservation efforts.

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Tools Fundraising Donor Analytics 359