NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The nonprofit sector is at risk of moving toward ineffective fundraising, but relationship fundraising may be the solution. Here's why.

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Relationship Fundraising Nonprofit Collaboration 260

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. Edited excerpts follow: Modern CEO: Lets start by talking about the co-CEO relationship. Elizabeth Brink: The co-leadership model is pretty deep in the organization.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships. Leadership requires a new skill set and, just as importantly,the respect and trust of your peers. Relationships don’t evolve by accident. Where do I start?

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Sponsor Relationship Reflection Leadership 126

NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

While we have many superstars in the nonprofit arena, too many professionals don’t understand the art, science and nuances of nonprofit leadership — boards, strategic planning, program evaluation and fundraising — and too many others aren’t willing to insist on proven best practices.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

At.orgCommunity’s March 13 Leadership ColLAB, the group discussed how to use technology to put HEART into our relationships with our members, staff, and constituents. ’ “This statement is profound, especially in the context of our new relationship with AI. We can decide what experiences and relationships to create.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader.

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Leadership Nonprofit Search Culture 73

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Often the process takes great amounts of time, energy, and money, it strains relationships, and, in the end, doesn’t really strengthen the organization and nothing really changes. We often started our working sessions with leadership and teaming exercises and discussions, and we then put those learnings into practice throughout the process.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In September 2024, Candid and ABFE published two fact sheets about Black nonprofit leadership : Key Facts about Nonprofits with Majority Black Leadership and Key Facts about Nonprofits with Black CEOs. Invest in early to mid-career staff: Create leadership development programs for staff other than the executive staff.

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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. Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Give your leadership skills a twist. Association 4.0 Don’t compete.

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Leadership Skills Associations Digital 170

Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

These articles explain the role volunteers play in building community relationships and resilience. Community relationships strengthen public trust in nonprofits. Volunteers are an integral part of the work nonprofits do, not only supporting their day-to-day operations but driving their core missions.

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Candid

JANUARY 7, 2025

Asking donors to rethink the funder-grantee relationship Nonprofits are used to keeping donors at arms length, presenting their successesthe beautiful mosaicwhile concealing the individual tiles that make that successful impact possible. But deep engagement requires a shift in the traditional funder-grantee dynamic.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. They want to feel connected to their leadership and understand the values and the objectives of the company. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! and Fast Company.

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Candid

JANUARY 15, 2025

For example, if the executive team is discussing which employees to include in a new working group or leadership opportunity, its helpful if theyre aware of who you are. Build relationships Visibility will make building relationships easier. Relationships are the foundation for job satisfaction.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Within many companies, Business Continuity works tirelessly to align all business units, secure leadership approval for processes, and allocate the necessary support for such events. When an event occurs, these relationships will quickly turn into opportunities for help and support. Activate your campaigns.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

Even when board members come to the job with some financial background, they may not be familiar with nonprofit accounting standards , their new leadership responsibilities, or your organization’s statements. But for the rest of us, ensuring that volunteer leaders are up to speed on the numbers is a significant responsibility.

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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. Often, these relationships develop informally.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2024

It’s called, Bosses, Coworkers, and Building Great Work Relationships. This book helps readers make so-so work relationships better, keep the bad ones from bringing them down, and help them build lasting connections with incredible people.” Today brings a new book I wish was published back when I was early in my career.

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Relationship Build Work Mentoring 105

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Effective donor stewardship isnt just about saying thank you; its about cultivating meaningful, genuine relationships. This small but immediate gesture can set the tone for a lasting relationship. When done right, regular donor touch points can strengthen connections without becoming intrusive. You want to inform, but not annoy.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities. Trust is the cornerstone of any healthy relationship between a board and an executive director.

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Nonprofit Director Government Leadership 104

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Cultivate cross-departmental relationships The strategy I’ve seen transform this situation for many people time and time again is to cultivate relationships across departmental lines deliberately. This is why open, ongoing conversations between leadership and employees are essential.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The most common concept spoken about in the nonprofit community is being in the business of building relationships. I once heard relationships described as something you have until something better comes along. I dont believe that goes nearly deep enough. Its almost transactional. That misses the mark.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2024

Maxwell 's book, The 5 Levels of Leadership that I believe should become a must-read book by any workplace/organizational leader: Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. Leadership is action, not position. The more trust you develop, the stronger the relationship becomes. It's about advancing your team.

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Leadership Relationship Measure Integration 103

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Of course, qualities such as financial expertise, legal knowledge, and leadership are all welcomed and useful additions; however they are not in place of the most important quality — caring. Will they make phone calls? Return emails? Will they take the time? Will they focus on the goal/mission?

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Competition defines even the friendliest corporate relationships. Early in my career, I was drawn to the nonprofit world. My attraction centered around the idea of sharing. Associations have a happier orientation to their community. We can learn and grow from each other’s experiences.orgCommunity exists to promote those opportunities.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 24, 2025

Circumstances change, community needs evolve, staff turnover stymies progress, supplementary funding falls through, and leadership priorities shift. Use this as an opportunity to strengthen the relationship and build trust. In the best funder/nonprofit relationships, they will see themselves as true partners and learn alongside you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 16, 2024

By Lyn Chamberlin , founder of LC Leadership – a strategic brand development consultancy. She has built a successful career helping nonprofits tell their stories in ways that inspire and inform, driving the kind of lasting relationships that traditional approaches to marketing and branding often overlook.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

Whether in relationships or the workplace, real appreciation is built through consistent, meaningful recognition. Recognition doesnt have to come from leadership alone. Some might appreciate public shoutouts, while others prefer personal acknowledgments from leadership. Ask them how they prefer to be recognized.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. Transform your leadership communication style to inspire with the 3 Cs: Credibility, Clarity and Connection.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

High-profile cases of revenge quitting can also damage an organizations reputation , affecting customer relationships and investor confidence. If leadership lacks alignment in the new strategic actions, expectations will rise while clarity drops, creating stress and conflict.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

companies have longstanding relationships in the region, leveraging its capacity for rapid prototyping and cost-effective manufacturing. and China over leadership in critical technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. Additionally, former U.S.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? We’ve found that internal self-awareness is associated with higher job and relationship satisfaction, personal and social control, and happiness; it is negatively related to anxiety, stress, and depression. Having a truthful relationship with yourself is a little like marriage.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

We ask folks to describe their political, historical, and/or socioeconomic context in their state or local region, the changes they are fighting for, and how they are centering the experiences, issues, and leadership of people impacted by the problems they seek to address. There is intentionality in all that the Ms.

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Relationship Organization Build Philanthropy 93

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Developing working relationships across the various departments of the organization creates synergies and efficiencies during the year. When employees leave, these relationships can be vulnerable, especially during the rush to fill the vacancy.

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Team Strategy Nonprofit Train 105

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no simple answer to the question of whether to consider a new constituent relationship management system. What would your daily data processes look like for all users (from gift officers to data entry to leadership)? Which ones would change your fundraising or help leadership? My answer began with one word: Maybe.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The ability to understand and manage your own emotions as well as those of volunteers, employees, and other constituents, is an indispensable quality for leadership in this people-centric environment. To maximize this potential, insightful leadership, agile teams, and purposeful cultures are required.

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