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

sgEngage

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? That depends on your organization’s structure.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility. Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. Advisory Boards Need Structure.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. However, it was difficult to keep aligned with what the board needed to govern effectively and contribute to the longer-term sustainability desires of the organization.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Here are the definitions: Connectivity Network: This type of network links people to allow them to exchange experience and information as a result of that exchange learn. Governance: Who decides what the network will do, how do they decide?

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What is the Current State of Grantseeking? Education

Tech Soup

Unlike most collaborations, collective impact initiatives involve a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants.”

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Nonprofit Consulting Firms: 26 Leaders in Their Spaces

DNL OmniMedia

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Review your candidates. Why They Stand Out.