The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 22, 2025

Heres what we learned: Demographic Shifts are Accelerating Demographics are playing a significant role in shaping membership trends. Membership Models Are Under Strain The traditional membership model is facing scrutiny. Share insights with boards and leadership to align strategies. This trend surprised me the most.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

By Lyn Chamberlin , President at Lyn Chamberlin Leadership – an award-winning nonprofit brand strategist who works with organizations and successful women to create transformative brand narratives. Your organization’s brand story holds immense power, especially for nonprofits striving to engage donors, volunteers, and partners.

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.orgSource

APRIL 8, 2025

These arent just leadership buzzwords. Do they see how their individual roles contribute to broader goals? Leaders must listen, model the values they want to see, and be willing to adapt. Thats where intentional change leadership becomes critical. Building Culture. Driving Change. Thats the foundation of momentum.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The leadership qualities we identified hold. In the age of AI, “Leadership will be about setting the right questions, rather than just finding the right answers.” Give your leadership skills a twist. Association 4.0

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sgEngage

JANUARY 6, 2025

But courageous leadership is more than just wins. Show Your Team Their Roles on the Other Side of Innovation Technology, like generative AI, can be disruptivein good ways and bad. If people cant see their role on the other side of your big idea, whether thats generative AI adoption or a new grant management system, you will lose them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

The role of the nonprofit CFO has undergone a profound evolution. Understanding the Role and Mission of the Nonprofit CFO Given the integral connection between financial and organizational success, you need to look beyond the normal job description of the role to understand it on a more personal basis.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Growing a nonprofit takes more than just passion: you also need creativity, persistence, and a handful of nonprofit leadership skills to guide your organization through the growth years and fulfill your mission. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Without leadership, a small nonprofit may never reach its full potential.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2024

Board leadership is one of the hardest jobs in the nonprofit world. Understanding the qualities needed for great board leadership To recruit, onboard, and lead a high-functioning board of directors the Executive Director needs key qualities like confidence, maturity, integrity, compassion, vision, charisma, and gratitude.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role. Participants find guidance, innovative thinking, and the opportunity to view their roles through a new lens. Begin with yourself.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

That’s one of the perks of leadership. Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Helping others to rise can be even more rewarding.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 8, 2011

Leadership development is incredibly important. You don’t actually want to be the one maintaining the engagement forever – if the community can take over your role, it’s a sign it’s not just sustainable but thriving! Knowing your community also means knowing your role in the ecosystem. Cultivate Leaders.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Whether you’re just starting out or already have a Board in place, you need to understand the role of your nonprofit’s Board so you can support people to understand and fulfill their roles and responsibilities. Let’s look at the 10 basic roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Leadership perspectives need to be continually refreshed in light of shifting circumstances. These are statistics you can monitor to assess the strength of your business model and organizational health. This post is Part Two. Self-evaluation isn’t easy. This post is the Cliff Notes version of the Pathways.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. No matter how expertly executed, switching roles and responsibilities is disruptive. Clarify Roles. These are telltale signs: Your strategy has changed. Remote work is challenging teams.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. I’ve worked in direct services, operations and executive leadership. .

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

The IT department didn’t always have a spot at the leadership table. That dramatic entrance has changed the role of CTOs. Although leadership courses may be part of more recent IT management degrees, relationship building is a skill that requires commitment and practice. The role of CTO isn’t getting easier.

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

A Google spokesperson declined to answer our specific questions, including questions regarding whether Google's leadership was aware of this research before choosing to pay Character.AI $2.7 We reached out to Google with a list of questions about this story. before any of its investments. in the months since news of the first lawsuit broke.

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Association Analytics

MAY 11, 2021

A less-evolved data governance model will not necessarily prevent you from using analytics in a constructive way. While it is valuable for organizations to compile analysis questions from staff, members, volunteers, and board leadership, that alone is not an effective starting point for building a data strategy. Just Get Started.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

And last year, the company announced the $28 billion acquisition of big data company Splunk , part of Cisco’s growing role in powering data-driven AI technology. What will Cisco’s role be in that transition? Can you tell me a little bit about what this AI transformation looks like? We will provide infrastructure for AI.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

When Everyone Leads , by Ed OMalley and Julia Fabris McBride , presents a revolutionary approach to leadership; not based on position or authority, but an activity that anybody can undertake by learning to spot opportunities for improvement and taking the initiative to engage others. Leadership is interactive, risky and experimental.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

posted by Syvan Diamond Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. Leadership succession planning, similar to donor succession planning, is often addressed when the concern arises rather than preemptively within a nonprofit organization’s fiscal year. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Validate your work.

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s a journey that begins with leadership and strategy. Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business.” As I said earlier, leadership and strategy are key.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. I want to look at different partnering models that we can pursue to provide leverage to Vernova and our shareholders, he says. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! and Fast Company.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Ours will be the sector that re-establishes empathy and assumes a leadership role as a force for social cohesion. Nonprofit leaders will have to reinvigorate a model that engages families from all walks of life, creating space for small acts of giving that accumulate into significant social impact. Yet, philanthropy endures.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2025

Why Organizations Should Experiment with Revenue Diversity Even when your revenue channels are strong, nonprofits should always be experimenting with their funding models. This person will provide the strategy and leadership necessary to launch and monitor the experiment.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

It involves reinventing work processes, improving channels of communication, and asking your staff to imagine their roles and responsibilities differently. They should be role models who inspire colleagues to see from a different perspective. These roles need not be filled by the management team.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Have you taken the time to assess your expertise as a development professional from a leadership perspective? Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies.

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TechImpact

APRIL 21, 2014

Does it mean driving sweeping changes in a completely new business model? Propose an interesting caveat to your normal meeting routine by swapping roles, having people work in teams to accomplish a common goal. Industry News Leadership leadership nonprofit' Image courtesy of Dieste.com. Make it a game.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. Principles.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

With modern BI, IT offers a governed model of self-service data for everyone, rather than continuing to gather requirements and design reports. IT plays a strategic role in facilitating a data-driven collaborative culture across the business in several ways. As your Data Culture develops, consider formal data leadership roles.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

With modern BI, IT offers a governed model of self-service data for everyone, rather than continuing to gather requirements and design reports. IT plays a strategic role in facilitating a data-driven collaborative culture across the business in several ways. As your Data Culture develops, consider formal data leadership roles.

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Candid

MARCH 11, 2024

In late January, the Building Movement Project (BMP) published our newest Race to Lead report on leadership aspirations among those working at nonprofit organizations. These findings raise real concerns about the future of leadership in the sector. What about positive factors such as training, mentorship, and other supports?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy. “The key to leadership in the digital age is empathy. The digital age is all about leadership. ” Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn made this observation.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

In my role, I oversee departments that interact with employees throughout the organization. The leadership team began by discussing the issues. As our consciousness expanded, we realized that the leadership team needed to model the behavior we were seeking to promote. Beth described her feelings this way. “In

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

It gives you some control when the external environment is rapidly changing, and people are looking to you for leadership. But, according to Sharon, leadership is the bottom line. CEOs must be role models for their teams. Scenario planning aids in exploring these six core questions: Why are we engaged in planning now?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Leadership support is essential.

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