Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Here are five signs youre being talked over in meetings, plus practical strategies to reclaim your voice and authority. If meetings leave you drained , frustrated, or questioning your value, its not about being too sensitive. But also, reflect on the environments youre in. Add practical language. Start with awareness.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

That’s a question every association CEO should be able to answer. Allow plenty of time on the agenda for the financial staff to explain when and how statements will be available, review banking, investment, and auditing arrangements, and answer questions. Be sure to allow time for questions. What is your board’s financial IQ?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

I was inspired to try this practice. I reflected on the people that I planned to see that day and chose one thing that Id like to thank them for. Through the Centers nonprofit, Healthy Minds Innovations , they translate their findings into evidence-based practices for individuals and organizations to cultivate well-being.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

Pinterest has updated itsprivacy policy to reflect its use of platform user data and images to train AItools. Soon after we reached out to Pinterest with questions about the update, we were contacted by a spokesperson who insisted that the update wasn't newsworthy because the update simply codifies things Pinterest was already doing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As you investigate, be sure to ask specific questions about setup, like: Do you have an onboarding team devoted to delivering full data conversions? No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its critical to ask the right questions to ensure a good fit and that the candidate has the capacity to be an active and effective board member not just a name on the letterhead. Review each goal of the strategic plan and ask these three questions : What are the most important things the board needs to do (versus the staff)?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

It was a comprehensive process including an open-call part 1, an invitation-only part 2, a site visit for finalists, and a presentation highlighting best practices. Over the years, we noticed that excellence in the sector was evolving, but our questions felt like they were behind the curve. We needed to change up our questions.

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sgEngage

MARCH 25, 2025

Typically, your financial team, including accountants and bookkeepers, will work closely with the CPA to ensure that all necessary information is available and that any questions are promptly addressed. Additionally, management will play a critical role in explaining the financial practices and addressing any findings the auditor may uncover.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Knowledge processes always start with some explicit or underlying questions. Being targeted about the questions we ask on applications and throughout our grantee relationships helps to frame understandings, document learning, and identify challenges or barriers. or “What is the geographic location served?”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

How to practice radical listening: So what can you do instead? Questioning is the skill of asking thought-provoking questions that demonstrate interest and curiosity. When used intentionally, questions can encourage deeper reflection, new perspectives, and innovative ideas.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Intercom: This AI-powered chatbot tool helps nonprofits engage with website visitors, answer common questions, and provide support in real time. Best Practices for AI Implementation AI presents new possibilities to nonprofits, but it also introduces new risks, like data management and privacy.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Practicing good data habits grants your staff access to important member information and eliminates unnecessary roadblocks. Still have questions about the importance of data hygiene? At worst, it can provide conflicting outcomes, not ultimately reflecting the truth of what’s happening.” . But how can you start the process? .

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions. This is a super-charged opportunity to practice your managing up (aka managing your manager) skills. What can I do?

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Candid

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our DEI journey began with the realization that we lacked key perspectives that could enhance our work and further align internal practices with our mission. This led us to examine our practices and identify areas where we could do better. We continuously asked ourselves, “How can we disrupt inequality in our work?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. It is a good idea to get a few people together on a call to practice doing it before you host your first meeting with zoom Breakout Rooms. Icebreakers & Check-Ins.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

From my experience, here are recommendations on ten fundraising resolutions based on proven principles, strategies, and best practices. Take time to engage all stakeholders board, management, staff, volunteers, donors and beneficiaries to conduct rich dialogues to address these deep questions. Where should they start?

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Six Best Practices for a Stronger Audit Relationship Now, however, nonprofits and auditing firms are more likely to share and leverage their diverse experiences to better collaborate with one another. Check out our audit toolkit with best practices and a checklist to help you use your technology to streamline your audit.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 3, 2023

It’s important for nonprofit leaders to learn how to incorporate fair and good fundraising best practices when connecting with diverse audiences. In this webinar follow-up, Kristal Frazier answers your pressing questions on DEI donor best practices. Question: How can we add NTEE codes on the IRS file or Candid?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Daily Walking Reflection I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because they don’t offer an opportunity for reflection. For over thirty years, I have integrated “reflection rituals” in my professional work on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually basis. I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, we judged it essential to set additional goals that had equal weight in their importance – ours were to use the strategic planning process to build strong teams and leaders and to create a culture that informed, reflected, and reinforced our values. We worked through mission and vision and then stopped and asked that question.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

This evolution reflects a broader digital transformation in the nonprofit world, underlining the importance of adaptability and innovation in communication. Nonprofits can use AI-powered chatbots in mobile messaging platforms to interact with supporters, answer questions, provide information, and even facilitate donations.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In change management, leadership addresses these essential questions: What does the team know about the change? What questions do they have? Managing change is key to the return on investment for any initiative because if the staff doesn’t adopt the change, then the ROI is zero. What don’t they know?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative organizations are finding ways to make augmented and virtual reality a more efficient, and even more practical, way to interact with technologies and tools, including letting people learn complex skills through virtual training. The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Below are five frequently asked questions related to indirect costs to help organizations identify how to calculate and allocate indirect costs. This is a question that does not have a simple answer because each organization’s indirect cost will be reflective of its mission and structure.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover 20 best practices to help you create an effective online donation page that drives more online fundraising revenue for your nonprofit. These best practices fall into the following categories: Optimizing your donation page design. Maximizing online donations. Let’s get started.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

There is no simple answer to the question of whether to consider a new constituent relationship management system. Many data problems can be fixed by using your CRM as it was intended to be used, streamlining codes, or standardizing your practices. Changing systems without careful reflection is a recipe for future data frustration.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Based on our experience, this article will offer an end-to-end event planning checklist, complete with best practices to help set your nonprofit event up for success. Ask yourself these questions to set effective goals: What is the purpose of the event? Some fundraising questions to consider: Will you be using crowdfunding ?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

YouTube this week put out a new video meant to address creators’ questions over its short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. On Shorts, however, the view is meant to reflect that the user had some intent to watch so creators have some “meaningful threshold” that someone meant to watch the view.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

If you’re wondering how to get more donations online, start by asking yourself the five questions below. We’ll reflect on how well your donation page is working and what improvements you could make starting today. Let’s jump right in with the first question to ask yourself. What other assumptions am I making?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Success requires intention, practice, honesty, and effort. Become an active listener by practicing these skills. Ask open-ended questions that invite feedback and follow-up. Make time for reflection. Practice questioning your attitudes and intentions before every decision. Listen actively. Engage fully.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While the practice seems to be on the rise, these statistics indicate that regular temperature checks are not the status quo. Discussions about best practices, strategic planning sessions, or board development exercises can launch conversations about how and when to evaluate the board’s performance. An annual survey is a good start.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Cropping images, adding borders or text, and creating visually compelling slideshows are skills acquired only through practice. Rather than getting stuck and delayed by not knowing an answer to a question or a solution to a problem, they find the answer by mastering search engines.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 7, 2024

Envisioning the process from end-to-end allows those in charge of a system change to anticipate questions, concerns, and pain points from all team members and stakeholders affected by the new system. This is also the time to verify that processes are following good accounting practices. Mindset matters.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

Part 3 Adopting and maintaining a new perspective and putting your human leadership into practice ( mindbuild ). Hortense le Gentil The author shares these additional insights with us: Question: What is the primary takeaway you hope business leaders will take away from your book? Part 2 Learning to shift your mindtrap out of the way.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 25, 2019

For many consumers, this begs the questions, ‘what type of information are companies gathering about me?’, This article might not answer every question you have regarding the CCPA, but it can provide valuable information on how it will affect businesses and consumers and what you can do to get your business CCPA compliant.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

For instance, they’re partnering with a platform called Oky, designed by Unicef, that young girls can use to get answers about menstrual health questions.

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