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

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Depending on the circumstances, these levels either promote efficiency with short, clearly defined reporting lines or create a long, perilous climb before ideas reach decision-makers. The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. All staff members are empowered to contribute ideas.

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Preparing Your Nonprofit to Move Beyond the Founder

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There is something exciting about being part of that first wave, when a bold new idea emerges, takes shape, and hopefully improves society around it. What follows is a long and sometimes draining process of getting that idea out of their head and into the wider world. Birth is an apt metaphor for the founder years.

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

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But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

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Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. The “checkbox” approach to accessibility rested on the idea that someone—usually a developer —managed accessibility and had the power to make a website accessible or not accessible. We can’t access information. We can’t connect. We can’t contribute.

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3 Steps to Write a Stellar Nonprofit Development Plan

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That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Create a fundraising calendar for your nonprofit’s development plan.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Get an idea of how many people will need the service you are offering. The needs assessment is a learning and listening phase. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate.

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New Book Shows Executive Coaches How To Work With Leaders

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Although the book is intended to give all coaches at whatever level fresh ideas about how to improve their skills, it also provides business leaders interesting in hiring a coach an inside look at what to expect from an executive coach. Frisch Robert J.