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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Almost never, right? They nearly always have to tweak an amount, a setting, a hypothesis.

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How Nonprofit Emerging Leaders Can Build Emotional Intelligence Skills: There’s An App for That!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s a pilot project supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. Emotional Intelligence and Emerging Leaders Training.

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

And this is one where these guys definitely have a lot of knowledge. Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. Because you’ll have permitting fees, you may have, you know, some design fees, you may have to do some testing with surveys or geotechnical studies. Check them out. Take it away my friends.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least. That may sound simple, like “my town, or my campus, or my organization.” Why Community? So, why community? Who’s the community?

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How to write a strong nonprofit mission statement

Get Fully Funded

Actually, your mission statement should pass the T-shirt test. Sounds good, but what do they actually do? Use a flip chart or sticky notes to gather everyone’s input. If I walk past you on the street and your mission statement is on your T-shirt, can I read it? And get it? If not, you’ve got some work to do my friend!

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile.

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile.