Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At Candid, we recognize that nonprofit leaders and fundraising professionals, particularly those working at small or under-resourced organizations, need access to the nonprofit training and resources that equip them to do good. Some of our most highly attended classes include: Introduction to Finding Grants. Introduction to Proposal Writing.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. You can also conduct a training inventory to identify existing resources that can be repurposed. Embrace microlearning.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 5, 2023

Meet with your team in one-on-ones to learn professional goals, ask about skills or talents, and better understand your employees’ backgrounds. Offer training. Ensure your entire organization grows when you invest in your employees by providing training opportunities. Promote inclusivity.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 28, 2024

As association leaders, we know it’s a vital part of your work to be on the lookout for the latest strategies and best practices to implement a vision across your organization. Read our blog for three best practice strategies on how to effectively communicate and implement a vision at your association.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In order to unlock its full potential, your team needs to be equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills. In this guide, we’ll provide four CRM training best practices. Depending on the CRM’s complexity, you can expand training to cover more advanced features, such as reporting, automation, and customization.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

build effective presentation skills. Public speaking and presentation skills can help you craft better written and verbal communications, whether you’re engaging with your team internally or connecting with an external audience. . You’re constantly engaging with others, whether it’s meeting with your staff about. Let’s get started!

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.orgSource

JANUARY 8, 2024

Although leadership courses may be part of more recent IT management degrees, relationship building is a skill that requires commitment and practice. If you feel as though your job would be perfect—if you could just eliminate the people, consider taking steps to improve your interpersonal skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

For very small nonprofits, this may not be true, but for medium and large nonprofits—or small nonprofits with a desire to grow their brand recognition and donors base—it’s becoming widely understood that new media managers have a unique and valuable skill set. Good Writing Skills. First and foremost, it’s a writing position.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 2, 2024

Support Adaptation Emotional intelligence offers a path to support teams and helps them acquire the skills to become digitally proficient. Building these skills helps teams to be comfortable in environments that are characterized by change. Social skills— along with empathy help teams successfully collaborate to get work done.

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 20, 2023

Most of them focus on skills you’ll develop from practicing the martial arts. Skills like focus, discipline, respect, confidence, flexibility, etc. These leadership lessons are gleaned more from HOW Master Yun runs his studio, than from the practice of taekwondo and hapkido (both martials arts I practice).

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The MatrixFiles

JUNE 20, 2023

Most of them focus on skills you’ll develop from practicing the martial arts. Skills like focus, discipline, respect, confidence, flexibility, etc. These leadership lessons are gleaned more from HOW Master Yun runs his studio, than from the practice of taekwondo and hapkido (both martials arts I practice).

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Arts Lesson Leadership Student 245

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. There are three major aspects of managing your volunteers: recruitment, training, and stewardship. Increases in donor engagement.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. But are you ready?

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? In this excerpt from No More Status Quo , Heather digs into the problematic assumptions of long-held “best practices” in the grantmaking space.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 7, 2024

How to be a successful LMS administrator – know the skills, responsibilities, and best practices to ace your role.

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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. How do we incorporate that into a DEI policy? Ask away in the comments below.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Findings from Nonprofit HR’s 2021 Nonprofit Talent Retention Practices survey showed that 42% of responding nonprofit leaders expected their employee turnover to increase in the coming year. One effective approach is to emphasize software training. The high rate of nonprofit staff turnover is a hot topic in the industry.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Mad Skills – The Skill-Centric Approach. At least, not now, in their current point of training. Once these needs are identified, then, training can be developed that specifically suits the needs of the positions within a particular organization. What do we mean when we say skill?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2022

An additional best practice is to verify the status by using the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search feature (formerly known as the “Exempt Organizations Select Check Tool”) prior to the grant disbursement. Best Practices for Grantmakers Performing Due Diligence. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Determination Letter. Sign up today!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Deliver an assessment by a trained observer who sits in on mentoring sessions and uses a rubric to rate the relationship on positivity and other dimensions. Think Seriously About What’s Practical. Some metrics require specialized training or techniques to collect, analyze, or interpret. Data access. . About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. If you facilitate meetings, trainings, or convenings, what playbooks are missing from this list?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

Many nonprofits need social media training - they just don’t know it. There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). Google, etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Skilled volunteers are a special type of volunteer. These volunteers are individuals who volunteer in the capacity of their everyday work or with skills that they are specifically trained in. Often times the skilled volunteer also has skill sets and trainings that most paid staff within the nonprofit do not have.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2024

There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. And staff training will ensure that everyone has insight into their numbers. A freelance expert can train current staff and get your organization up to speed.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When you work at a nonprofit or public library, it might feel like you constantly need to learn new skills to stay on top of emerging technology and adoption. Thankfully, there are many free or inexpensive training programs that can help you polish your technology skills. Register now for online training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

2) Training. Fundraising software training is essential to maximizing your investment. 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. In-person training. 3) Support. 3) Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. 8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits by Salsa Labs. Right audience.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

A professional DEI training program can help people identify blind spots and biases while maintaining a safe and supportive atmosphere. It’s an exercise that will provide the opportunity to explore lessons learned in training and reflect on how they impact real-life situations. This is not a forum for amateurs.

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Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

Nonprofits should provide all volunteers with information about their mission, vision, and impact, along with access to training resources, documented expectations, available channels for on-site and off-site communication, and ways to provide feedback about their overall experience. Use a variety of training methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future. Now, you might be wondering, “how do we practice empathy in our leadership styles?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Can participants apply the skills?” There are two different methods to evaluate your training.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Last week I defined skills management by referencing and summarizing an existing Wikipedia article. This week I’ll explain why skills management is important and I’ll begin by repeating Wiki’s definition of Skills Management: “ The practice of understanding, developing, and deploying people and their skills.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

These programs help your staff members develop skills that can be applied at your organization for more efficient processes and a productive work environment. . We’ve written this guide on professional development programs to help nonprofit executives like you empower employees to develop skills and hone their craft.

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Classy

JUNE 15, 2021

We are excited to announce Classy’s latest advancement in shaping a stronger social sector, Classy Academy —our new learning platform of on-demand courses covering nonprofit best practices for all, as well as how you can optimize Classy to advance your nonprofit’s mission. . Nonprofit Best Practices . Account Tour and Setup.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

The most popular model today is called a Large Language Model (LLM) , which is trained on massive text datasets. Keep in mind that the more specific the model gets and the more specific the training dataset, the better outcomes you’ll find. LLMs are meant to produce conversational human language responses.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental. Offer continuous learning opportunities to deepen your board members’ understanding of nonprofit governance best practices and emerging trends. But don’t stop at day one.

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