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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Financial managers make understanding the group’s risk tolerance a defining component of their strategy. These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. For some groups that disruption also offered seeds of opportunity. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. No one was exempt.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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Our discussion about the Summit Award launched a wide-ranging conversation. An expert on branding startups, executive leadership, governance, and more, Allison has deep roots in the association community. The recognition, the program’s success, and its critical mission are badges of accomplishment for the group.

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How to Collect Compelling Stories to Use in Your Fundraising Work

The Fundraising Authority

As fundraisers, we need to be carrying on a constant conversation with our donors. Sometimes this conversation happens in person or on the phone. No matter how we are carrying on the conversation, a dialog like this without stories becomes stale and ultimately boring.

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Give Joy!

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It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Although I doubt that many organizations still need a Casual Friday, if your group is a holdout, this is an easy, high-impact fix. Cater a healthy group lunch every quarter. Make random acts of kindness a habit.

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Supporting Native communities is about listening and relationships

Candid

The Northwest Area Foundation has been a longtime funder of Native communities. We’ve come to understand that Native communities need to determine their own futures, not funders. The commitment is an intentional public pledge to stand alongside Native communities. It’s the relationship that matters most to Native communities.

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Introducing our Book Group Facilitation Guide!

VQ Strategies

When we first conceived of the book, Transforming Disruption to Impact , our goal was to spark conversation about the innovations and adaptations that have been vital to sustaining the power of volunteers despite the many disruptions we have all experienced in recent years. So what better way to read it than to do so as part of conversations?

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3 Benefits of Using Crowdstack to Organize Your Nonprofit Staff

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Rosemary O’Neill , CMO of Social Strata, makers of the Crowdstack community platform. Bringing the resources together in one space is also helpful to support employee or social ambassador programs , making it much easier to share information, PDFs, worksheets or other materials while building a sense of community for the project.

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