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How to Evaluate a New Revenue Stream

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The development team wants to start an annual trivia night. Finance teams can help their nonprofit organizations evaluate new revenue streams, enhancing the organizations stability and mitigating risk while intentionally experimenting with varied income sources. But you need to diversify your revenue streams. Ask the finance team.

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5 Tips Development Directors Should Use for Success

NonProfit PRO

Between the Great Resignation and many people reconsidering their career goals, your team members may be re-evaluating their commitment to your workplace. You can solidify priorities today to set you and your team up for a successful 2023, and, importantly, retain your best people.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. During a development retreat in February of 2020, the board discussed various governance models and how they could shift perspective to maximize CITE’s potential,” Sharon recalled. “We I’m not suggesting that you level the cake.

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Creating Your 2025 Roadmap to Excellence 

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Steps to Define Your Vision and Goals: Engage Stakeholders: Involve leadership, staff, and members in developing your vision. Steps to Assess Current Capabilities: Evaluate Digital Readiness: Review your digital tools, infrastructure, and staff skills to identify areas for improvement.

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Your Foundation Grant Report Is Due, But You’re Short On Your Goals. Now What?

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Frequently, securing these gifts requires development professionals and grant writers to submit proposals that include project goals to be achieved by the end of the grant period. As part of the proposal development process, development and program staff collaborate to define clear objectives as well as anticipated outputs and outcomes.

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Applying The 10 Stages of Group Development To Grants

The NonProfit Times

By Shauna O’Toole, CFRE, GPC You encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal. The Stages of Group Development framework, developed by Bruce Tuckman (1965), describes how a group coalesces around an objective. The team must explicitly define its strategy.

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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

American Sign Language is the third most prevalent language in the United States but there are vastly fewer AI tools developed with ASL data than data representing the countrys most common languages, English and Spanish.

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