Want Compelling Stories? Make Friends with the People on Your Front Line
Want Compelling Stories? Make Friends with the People on Your Front Line is an article written by Kristy Hayter for NTEN . The article discusses the importance of building relationships within a nonprofit and finding storytelling champions for the organization. It is important to have champions and writers that understand why sharing stories is so impactful for supporters and donors.
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What I Learned as a Funder: Frank Tips for Nonprofits
What I Learned as a Funder: Frank Tips for Nonprofits is an article written by Catherine Crystal Foster for Blue Avocado . Foster, a former funder, offers a frank list of things she learned as a funder that she wishes she had understood better when fundraising from foundations. She discusses how nonprofits can be more successful in building relationships with funders if they step away from notions of distance and power differentials and view those across the table and reading their grants more as, well, people.
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What Will Nonprofits Look Like In 2025? Nine Experts Weigh In
What Will Nonprofits Look Like In 2025? Nine Experts Weigh In is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, a panel of Forbes Nonprofit Council members identify which factors they believe will influence or change the way an organization functions over the next several years.
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Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Consider Project Management
Why Your Nonprofit Needs to Consider Project Management is an article written by Stephen Jackson and Baily Maples for TechSoup . The article examines project management basics and illustrates some ways that even a little project management can go a long way at a nonprofit.
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A New Paradigm for Nonprofit Measurement
A New Paradigm for Nonprofit Measurement is an article written for Stanford Social Innovation Review . The article, accompanied by a video, discusses how the process of collecting feedback from constituents provides a much needed third dimension to nonprofit measurement practice.
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Applying for Grants: 10 Tips
Applying for Grants: 10 Tips is an article written for Sumac . The article offers 10 tips to follow when applying for grants, focused on how to maximize the chances that an organization stands out.
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Bridging The Gap: Eight Ways To Integrate Team Members Of All Generations
Bridging The Gap: Eight Ways To Integrate Team Members Of All Generations is an article written by an expert panel for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, the experts of Forbes Nonprofit Council share their thoughts on how to integrate younger and older workers for the best outcome.
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Building 2019 Based On Headaches Of 2018
Building 2019 Based On Headaches Of 2018 is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article discusses how to best burn away the prior year’s most difficult events in the nonprofit sector, and how to safely open the door to the new year.
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Building Financially Resilient Nonprofits: Lessons From the Field
Building Financially Resilient Nonprofits: Lessons From the Field is an article written by Rebecca Coker, Neela Pal and Miguel M. Salinas for Stanford Social Innovation Review . The article discusses “Resilience” as it relates to nonprofits and discusses how grantmakers and nonprofits can take practical steps toward achieving it.
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Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Nonprofits: Setting the Table for Success
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in Nonprofits: Setting the Table for Success is an article written by Sandy St. Louis for Third Sector New England . The article, accompanied by a video, discusses how to most effectively build a pathway to inclusion and equity that will support new and more diverse leadership within an organization.
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Empowering Next Generation Leaders Through Crowdfunding
Empowering Next Generation Leaders Through Crowdfunding is an article written by Andreas Karelas for Blue Avocado . The article discusses how to best fundraise while enlisting the support and engagement of the next generation: millennials.
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Evaluation with the End in Mind
Evaluation with the End in Mind is an article written by Ann W. St. Claire and Barbara A. Schillo for Stanford Social Innovation Review . In the article, St. Claire and Schillo discuss the importance of evaluation as well as how to best utilize it to drive progress toward end goals.
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Five Ways Events Can Help You Find New Donors
Five Ways Events Can Help You Find New Donors is an article written by Kelly Velasquez-Hague for NTEN . In the article, Velasquez-Hague discusses how to best leverage the events that a nonprofit already holds to intentionally expand its donor base.
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How Dashboards Can Help Your Nonprofit Achieve Its Goals
How Dashboards Can Help Your Nonprofit Achieve Its Goals is an article written for Nonprofit Quarterly . This article, accompanied by a video, leads a guided tour through the land of nonprofit dashboards using real-life examples.
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How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams
How to Create Better Nonprofit Executive Teams is an article written by Libbie Landles-Cobb, Henry Barmeier and Kirk Kramer for Stanford Social Innovation Review . The article identifies the five critical questions nonprofit leaders should ask in order to improve the performance of an executive team.
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How to Motivate Millennials to Become Nonprofit Leaders
How to Motivate Millennials to Become Nonprofit Leaders is an article written by Amy Sewell for Forbes Nonprofit Council . The article evaluates the key factors that have led to success and growth across nonprofits where millennials have served as leaders.
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How To Successfully And Sustainably Scale Your Nonprofit
How To Successfully And Sustainably Scale Your Nonprofit is an article written by Eric Griswold for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Griswold defines what it means to scale” and identifies some areas the management team or board of directors should focus on to effectively scale a nonprofit.
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Keeping Donor Trust
Keeping Donor Trust, an article written by Bennett M. Weiner and Luana K. Lewis for GrantSpace , suggests several tips for building a persuasive fundraising case in a way that will protect donor trust while safeguarding your organization’s reputation.
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Key Strategies to Measure the Impact of Your Organization
Key Strategies to Measure the Impact of Your Organization is an article written by Laurel Molloy for GrantSpace . The article discusses the challenges of measuring impact as well as the importance of doing so.
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Maximize Impact through Board Accountability
Maximize Impact through Board Accountability is an article written by Gilles Mesrobian for GrantSpace . The article discusses how to effectively evaluate and measure a nonprofit’s success through its Board of Directors.
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Nine Ways to Foster An Environment Of Learning For Your Team
Nine Ways to Foster An Environment Of Learning For Your Team is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, a panel of nonprofit executives share their ideas for how to best encourage continuous education of a nonprofit’s staff, and how to insure that staff skills are current and align with the organization’s needs.
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Nonprofit Growth: Eight Ways To Retain Cultural Sensitivity When Crafting A Message
Nonprofit Growth: Eight Ways To Retain Cultural Sensitivity When Crafting A Message is an article written by an expert panel for Forbes Nonprofit Council . It can often be difficult for nonprofits to target new audiences with effective marketing, while also being sensitive to the older and newer cultures now included in their target audience. In the article, eight nonprofit experts share their best ways to help marketing teams retain sensitivity toward different cultures while crafting a message.
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Nonprofit Standard Newsletter – Winter 2018
Nonprofit Standard Newsletter – Winter 2018, a publication from BDO, provides readers with a number of articles focusing on key trends in the nonprofit industry. This particular edition includes articles on innovation, generational workforce changes, and running a nonprofit with a for-profit vision.
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Nonprofits Beware: You Can Get Hacked Too
Nonprofits Beware: You Can Get Hacked Too is an article written for TechSoup . The article identifies the best ways to identify, counter, and prevent a hack and as well as the effects a hack can have on a nonprofit’s reputation.
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Putting the “Crowd” in Crowdsourcing
Putting the “Crowd” in Crowdsourcing is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article shares several ideas for diversifying fundraising with crowdfunding and achieving revenue growth for your organization.
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Should a Nonprofit Splurge on Management?
Should a Nonprofit Splurge on Management? Is an article written by Kwame Anthony Appiah for The New York Times Magazine . The article defines the importance of the economy as related to the hiring of nonprofit leaders.
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Should Your Nonprofit Build an Endowment?
Should Your Nonprofit Build an Endowment? is an article written by Mark Hager for Nonprofit Quarterly . The article walks the reader through the up- and downsides of endowments to help determine if it is right for their nonprofit.
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Six Ways to Prepare for Your Year-End Donation Campaign
Six Ways to Prepare for Your Year-End Donation Campaign is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, six nonprofit leaders share their strategies for how to best prepare for the year-end fundraising campaign of 2018.
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Successful Peer to Peer Birthday Campaigns
Successful Peer to Peer Birthday Campaigns fundfulP2P . The article provides examples of how nonprofits are running successful Birthday campaigns and offers advice for how to start one.
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The Landscape of Project Management Tools for Nonprofits
The Landscape of Project Management Tools for Nonprofits, a report written for Idealware , looks at the wide range of available software to understand what these systems are capable of, what they cost, and how effective they are for nonprofits. To put those results in context, the report also defines the management techniques that help make projects successful, the specific challenges nonprofits face in project management, and what organizations can do to improve their project management processes.
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The Nonprofit’s Guide to Managing Documents in the Cloud Effectively
The Nonprofit’s Guide to Managing Documents in the Cloud Effectively is an article written by Stephen Jackson for TechSoup . The article provides several strategies for effective digital document management along with some of the tools available to nonprofits.
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The Six Principles of Persuasion & How They Can Help Your Nonprofit
The Six Principles of Persuasion & How They Can Help Your Nonprofit is an article written for Sumac . The article describes the six principles of persuasion that are most effective in influencing people to donate, volunteer, or support a cause or issue.
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Trying to Attract Millennials To Your Organization? It's All About the Benefits
Trying to Attract Millennials To Your Organization? It’s All About the Benefits is an article written by Martin Trussell for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Trussell discusses how a nonprofit can best appeal to the millennial generation, communicate the benefits of involvement, and educate millennial employees. To access this article, go to:
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Use Your Brand and Engage Donors This Year-End Season
Use Your Brand and Engage Donors This Year-End Season is an article written by Farra Trompeter for NTEN . Trompeter highlights the most effective strategies for appealing to donors at year’s end, using the organization’s positioning and personality.
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Ways to Grow Your Nonprofit’s Email List
Ways to Grow Your Nonprofit’s Email List is an article written by Chris Bernard for Idealware . For nonprofits, the size of an email list determines reach, online fundraising, and the breadth of support among individuals. This article provides beginner and advanced tactics for using marketing, business development, and lead generation to grow an organization’s list.
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Why Nonprofit Leaders Need to Make Business Personal
Why Nonprofit Leaders Need to Make Business Personal is an article written by Tarren Bragdon for Forbes Nonprofit Council . The article examines, in detail, three reasons why it is helpful for the work of a nonprofit to become personal for nonprofit leaders.
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3 Steps To Addressing Financial Turmoil
3 Steps To Addressing Financial Turmoil is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article outlines three steps to responding to instances in which the financial alarm bells sound.
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5 Ways to Maximize Your Website Content in Less than an Hour
5 Ways to Maximize Your Website Content in Less than an Hour is an article written by Adam Walker for TechSoup . Maximizing website content is critical for nonprofits and this article identifies five ways to maximize website content in less than an hour.
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8 Steps To An Emotional Appeal
8 Steps To An Emotional Appeal is an article written for The NonProfit Times . In the article, fundraising professionals share eight steps to keep in mind when crafting an emotional appeal to donors.
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10 Ways to Calm a Really Cranky Donor
10 Ways to Calm a Really Cranky Donor is an article written for The NonProfit Times . An angry donor is a nonprofit’s nightmare and even nonprofits with the best of intentions can make a mistake that will lead to a long, and often loud, phone call with a donor. The article outlines 10 steps to take to both calm the individual down and to solve the problem.
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12 Steps to Internet Safety for Nonprofits
12 Steps to Internet Safety for Nonprofits is an article written by Nick Mediati for TechSoup . The article provides 12 practical things to consider when evaluating an organization’s security, as well as tips for addressing those potential security issues.
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A Few Good Tools for e-Advocacy
A Few Good Tools for e-Advocacy is an article written for Idealware . The article suggests a number of tools a nonprofit can use to find, engage, and mobilize the people who support its mission.
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A Simple Guide For Growing And Maintaining Your Brand On Social Media
A Simple Guide For Growing And Maintaining Your Brand On Social Media is an article written by Austin Gallagher for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Gallagher identifies a number of tools that leaders can, and should, use to raise awareness of their organizations, boost their personal brands and share important victories.
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Capacity Building: The Key To Sustainable Movements
Capacity Building: The Key To Sustainable Movements is an article written by Michele Lord for Forbes Nonprofit Council . The article offers advice for moving an organization beyond surviving to thriving, while taking an extra step to make an investment in capacity building.
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Embracing Organizational Conflicts as Opportunities for Dialogue and Learning
Embracing Organizational Conflicts as Opportunities for Dialogue and Learning, an article written by Ning Jun Yuan for Third Sector New England . The article discusses how to identify chronic tensions in an organization and place them into the proper context.
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Eight Ways Nonprofits Can Improve Their Approach To Diversity And Inclusiveness
Eight Ways Nonprofits Can Improve Their Approach To Diversity And Inclusiveness is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . Nonprofits need to show their clients, as well as their employees, that they are willing and able to accept all, regardless of their gender, race, religion or background. In the article, eight members of Forbes Nonprofit Council discuss how the nonprofit sector can better approach diversity and inclusiveness.
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Good Work Requires Strong Infrastructure
Good Work Requires Strong Infrastructure, an article written for The NonProfit Times , discusses the fact that infrastructure to support grant acquisition and management is commonly neglected. As a result, the article offers tips for reviewing an organization’s grant-related resources.
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How to Build and Sustain a Successful Monthly Giving Program
How to Build and Sustain a Successful Monthly Giving Program is an article written by Michael Stein for TechSoup . In the article, Stein discusses the most effective ways to (a) help monthly donors find the organization online and elsewhere, (b) set up seasonal campaigns, and (c) show appreciation to retain those donors.
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How to Ensure Volunteers and Staff Follow Your Ethical Standards
How to Ensure Volunteers and Staff Follow Your Ethical Standards is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, seven nonprofit leaders make recommendations to ensure that staff and volunteers adhere to an organization’s ethical standards when fundraising.
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How to Tell Compelling Stories While Avoiding Exploitation
How to Tell Compelling Stories While Avoiding Exploitation is an article written by Abesha Shiferaw for NTEN . The article suggests a number of questions that nonprofit staff and board members must ask themselves when sharing the stories of others in an attempt to fundraise and advocate.
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How to Use Online Surveys at Your Nonprofit
How to Use Online Surveys at Your Nonprofit is an article written by Vivek Bhaskaran for TechSoup . The article discusses how mission-driven organizations can use online surveys to reduce ambiguity about what their constituents need and how they can more efficiently run their organization.
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Nine Ways To Convert One-Time Donors To Regular Givers
Nine Ways To Convert One-Time Donors To Regular Givers, an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council , has nine nonprofit leaders weigh in on the tactics they have found work well to convert one-time donors to regular givers.
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Nonprofit Best Practices: Online Donation Appeals
Nonprofit Best Practices: Online Donation Appeals is an article written for Idealware . The article identifies best practices that will help individuals harness technology to reach donors in new ways, raise more money for a cause, and ultimately achieve the mission.
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Six Easy Ways to Grow as a Leader and Help Your NPO Build a Solid Foundation
Six Easy Ways to Grow as a Leader and Help Your NPO Build a Solid Foundation is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, nonprofit CEO Sara Dawdy shares her advice for establishing an organization and cause that is both genuine and successful.
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The 3 Gotta-Haves for Boards Seeking Impact and Scale
The 3 Gotta-Haves for Boards Seeking Impact and Scale is an article written by Donald Summers for BoardSource . The article explores the necessities, the “gotta haves” that enable organizations to enter and thrive in this new, sector-agnostic world of high performance, growth, and social impact.
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What Nonprofits Need to Know About Measuring Social Media ROI
What Nonprofits Need to Know About Measuring Social Media ROI is an article written by Julia Campbell for TechSoup . The article discusses the importance of measuring social media impact as well as the most effective ways to develop a rubric for social media success.
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Building an Effective Audit Committee for Your Nonprofit
Building an Effective Audit Committee for Your Nonprofit is an article written by Patricia E. Farrell for The Legal Intelligencer . The article discusses the benefits of an audit committee and explores how to appoint, integrate and monitor a well-rounded one.
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Crowdsourcing: A Promising Practice Both Nonprofit-like and Visionary
Crowdsourcing: A Promising Practice Both Nonprofit-like and Visionary is an article written by Derrick Rhayn for The Nonprofit Quarterly . The article discusses the many benefits of crowdsourcing to nonprofit organizations and provides examples of crowdsourcing success.
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Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice
Doing More with More: Putting Shared Leadership into Practice is an article written by Michael Allison, Susan Misra and Elissa Perry for The Nonprofit Quarterly . It identifies different aspects of shared leadership and details how this approach can be put into action to best serve an organization and its mission.
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Follow These Tips to Maintain Mutually Beneficial Relationships with Your Nonprofit’s Partners
Follow These Tips to Maintain Mutually Beneficial Relationships with Your Nonprofit’s Partners is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, eleven successful nonprofit executives explain how to maintain mutually beneficial relationships with partners.
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Fundraising Bright Spots: The Secrets of Successful Fundraising from Individuals
Fundraising Bright Spots: The Secrets of Successful Fundraising from Individuals is an article written by the editors of The Nonprofit Quarterly . The article is accompanied by a webinar video and provides a bird’s-eye view of how a successful nonprofit “culture of philanthropy” works. The article also reviews the distinguishing characteristics of several nonprofits and the discoveries they’ve made that have helped other organizations with fundraising.
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Fundraising Storm Warnings Downgraded for Now
Fundraising Storm Warnings Downgraded for Now is an article written by Ruth McCambridge for The Nonprofit Quarterly . In the article, McCambridge summarizes the results of Nonprofit Research Collaborative’s survey of charitable organizations in the United States and Canada. The survey focused on fundraising goals, outcomes, and predictions for past, present and future years.
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Good Management: What’s it Take?
Good Management: What’s it Take? is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article discusses the basics of solid grant management that can be used to help implement a grant acquisition program or manage current awards.
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How Nonprofits Can Address Their Own Biases to Build Better Diversity
How Nonprofits Can Address Their Own Biases to Build Better Diversity is an article written by Ben Paynter for Fast Company . The article discusses the statistics of racial inequality as they relate to boards and offers solutions to eliminating inequalities and bias within an organization.
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How Nonprofits Can Save Time and Money: Why Cloud Integrations Matter
How Nonprofits Can Save Time and Money: Why Cloud Integrations Matter is an article written by Sima Thakkar for TechSoup . In the article, Thakkar discusses the capabilities of the cloud and the many ways in which nonprofits can save both time and money by using it.
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How to Acquire Your Dream Board Member
How to Acquire Your Dream Board Member , an article written by Pamela Hawley for Forbes Nonprofit Council , presents the most important questions to consider when looking for a new board member and offers critical advice for bringing them in.
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How to Manage a Successful Social Media Campaign on a Challenging Cause
How to Manage a Successful Social Media Campaign on a Challenging Cause is an article written by Asher Ben Arieh for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Arieh provides a framework for developing a social media campaign strategy and obtaining great results, with a few lessons thrown in for good measure.
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How to Use Facebook’s Free Fundraising Tools
How to Use Facebook’s Free Fundraising Tools, an article written for The Nonprofit Times , describes the tools available and shares a number of quick tips for how to best use them.
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Preparing Executive Director Transitions for Organizational Success
Preparing Executive Director Transitions for Organizational Success , an article written by Patrick Cutrona for Third Sector New England , discusses the tricky issues presented during leadership transitions and identifies what is needed to ensure a stable transition for an organization overall.
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Process Evaluation vs. Outcome Evaluation
Process Evaluation vs. Outcome Evaluation is an article written by MissionWorks for Third Sector New England . The article examines the difference between outcome evaluation and process evaluation and presents important questions that will help shape evaluation to be more useful.
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Self-Coaching Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders
Self-Coaching Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders is an article written by Jean Lobell, Mohan Sikka and Pavitra Menon for Nonprofit Quarterly . The article addresses several development strategies that can provide nonprofit leaders with opportunities to shift their perspective and stretch their current repertoire of practices and competencies.
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Seven Common Website Design Mistakes Nonprofits Make
Seven Common Website Design Mistakes Nonprofits Make is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, seven nonprofit leaders weigh in on the most common mistakes nonprofit organizations make with their website designs and how to fix them.
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Six Tips to Boost Your Next Crowdfunding Campaign
Six Tips to Boost Your Next Crowdfunding Campaign is an article written by Sarah Evans for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Evans shares a number of lessons on what strategies are most effective for a crowdfunding campaign.
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Three Ways to Craft a Nonprofit Model that Appeals to Millenials
Three Ways to Craft a Nonprofit Model that Appeals to Millenials is an article written by Kevin Xu for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Xu discusses a number of strategies which nonprofits can implement to maintain their current momentum and bring millennials along for the ride.
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Use Influencer Marketing to Achieve Your Nonprofit Goals
Use Influencer Marketing to Achieve Your Nonprofit Goals, an article written by Gloria Horsley for Forbes Nonprofit Council , defines influencer marketing and how to best implement this approach on a budget.
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What Nonprofits Can Learn from Tech Startups
What Nonprofits Can Learn from Tech Startups, an article written by Kathryn Svobodny for TechSoup , shares several helpful lessons for nonprofits from companies just getting off the ground.
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3 Benefits Of Nonprofit Competition -- And Why We Need It
3 Benefits Of Nonprofit Competition — And Why We Need It is an article written by Tori Utley for Forbes . In the article, Utley identifies the different aspects of competition within the nonprofit sector and the opportunities for growth that come with them.
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4 Tests for Enhancing Staff Performance
4 Tests for Enhancing Staff Performance is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article discusses the four tests an organization’s culture should meet to be a “performance-enhancing force.”
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6 Tips to Select the Right Online Fundraising Platform
6 Tips to Select the Right Online Fundraising Platform is an article written by Michael Stein for TechSoup . The article provides six tips to guide individuals through the online fundraising platform selection process.
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A Nonprofit’s Guide to Matching Gifts
A matching gift option on a donation form can increase donation amounts by 51%. Almost 65% of Fortune 500 companies offer a corporate gift matching program to support employee giving, so it is important to give nonprofit donors the option to include a corporate gift match when they submit their donations. Download this eBook to learn: why matching gifts will boost peer-to-peer revenue, the ease of corporate gift matching online, and how to use targeted communications to communicate the importance of matching gifts.
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Blending Evaluative and Organizational Development
Blending Evaluative and Organizational Development is an article written by Saphira M. Baker and Anita McGinty for Stanford Social Innovation Review . The article discusses how collaboration between nonprofit evaluators and organizational consultants can increase efficiency and lead to deeper results
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Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Nonprofit Boards
Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Nonprofit Boards is an article written by Matthew Forti for Stanford Social Innovation Review . In the article, Forti shares advice for helping a board to evolve alongside an organization’s changing needs and opportunities.
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Culture, Inclusion, and Nonprofit Competence: The Unbreakable Links
Culture, Inclusion, and Nonprofit Competence: The Unbreakable Links is an article written by Steve Dubb for The Nonprofit Quarterly . In the article, Dodd discusses the ideas of cultural competency and inclusivity in regards to nonprofits and examines the benefits associated with them.
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Digital Campaigns Inspire Positive Change
Digital Campaigns Inspire Positive Change is an article written by Jim Schaffer for The Nonprofit Quarterly . The article identifies a number of digital campaigns and examines the differentiating attributes and significant outcomes of each. Schaffer also offers a number of suggestions for getting creative while recommitting to one’s own cause.
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Eight Nonprofit Professionals Offer Their Best Fundraising Advice
Eight Nonprofit Professionals Offer Their Best Fundraising Advice is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, eight nonprofit leaders share their best advice for building and maintaining relationships during a fundraising campaign.
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Eight Ways to Get Valuable and Honest Advice from Your Board
Eight Ways to Get Valuable and Honest Advice from Your Board is an article written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, eight nonprofit leaders share their best tips for building good board relationships and encouraging honest input from them.
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Embracing Radical Imagination
Embracing Radical Imagination is an article written by Maro Guevara for CompassPoint . The article discusses the importance of imagination as a catalyst for social movements and change within an organization.
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Five Elements of Collective Leadership
Five Elements of Collective Leadership is an article written by Cassandra O’Neill and Monica Brinkerhoff for The Nonprofit Quarterly . The article outlines five key elements (trust, shared power, transparent and effective communication, accountability, and shared learning) to make collective leadership work.
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Five Fundraising Takeaways From 2017’s Last Week of Giving
Five Fundraising Takeaways From 2017’s Last Week of Giving is an article written by Amy Sewell for Forbes Nonprofit Council . Sewell offers five key considerations for an organization to consider as it begins making fundraising decisions for 2018.
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Five Fundraising Tips for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders
Five Fundraising Tips for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders is an article written by Austin Gallagher for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, Gallagher shares five things that can help emerging nonprofit organizations and leaders as they embark on a quest for funding.
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Five Ways Perfection Is Killing Your Fundraising Progress
Five Ways Perfection Is Killing Your Fundraising Progress is an article written by David King for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the article, King details the five ways that the pursuit of perfection holds clients back in their fundraising progress.
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Four Ways to Use Instagram to Propel Your Nonprofit Goals in 2018
Four Ways to Use Instagram to Propel Your Nonprofit Goals in 2018, an article written by Gloria Horsley for Forbes Nonprofit Council , identifies a number of key tactics for inspiring, engaging with, and growing a following on Instagram.
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Great Proposals Are More Than Stories
Great Proposals Are More Than Stories is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article provides a number of tips to consider when putting together a proposal with a logical, well-documented and clearly supported argument.
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How Can Nonprofit Organizations Fix A Strained Donor Relationship?
How Can Nonprofit Organizations Fix A Strained Donor Relationship? is a post written for Forbes Nonprofit Council . In the post, eight nonprofit leaders share some of the most important steps to troubleshooting and salvaging a nonprofit’s relationship with donors.
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How Nonprofits Can Raise More Money: 6 Trends to Watch
How Nonprofits Can Raise More Money: 6 Trends to Watch, an article written by Michael Stein for TechSoup , shares six trends for nonprofits to consider as they create their annual plans to raise money and engage supporters.
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Making Your Board More Inclusive: Two Cases
Making Your Board More Inclusive: Two Cases is an article written by Ruth McCambridge for The Nonprofit Quarterly . The article compares two cases of board diversity, providing guidance for the kinds of integrated strategies that make a difference in individual nonprofits.
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Metrics for Mission Impact: How Nonprofits Can Strengthen Outcomes Through Quantitative Measures
In their article, “Nonprofit Starvation Cycle”, Ann Goggins Gregory and Dan Howard exhort nonprofit finance professionals to report to funders the real costs of running nonprofits. Using advice from sector thought leaders, this ebook explores the metrics needed to ensure that a nonprofit is financially healthy, spending dollars wisely, and creating mission impact efficiently.
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New Year, New Brand?
New Year, New Brand? is an article written by Doug Hattaway and Kyle Schnoebelen for Stanford Social Innovation Review . In the article, Hattaway and Schnoebelen ask and answer three questions that can help nonprofits determine whether it’s time to refresh their brand. To access this article, go to:
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Nonprofit Boards Don’t Resemble Rest of America
Nonprofit Boards Don’t Resemble Rest of America is an article written by Andy Segedin for The NonProfit Times . The article examines the lack of diversity amongst nonprofit boards and explains why diversity is a vitally important issue.
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Professional Development: Ask The Tough Questions to Become a Leader
Professional Development: Ask The Tough Questions to Become a Leader is an article written for The NonProfit Times . The article identifies the questions one should ask when designing a plan for action and growth.
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