Posts tagged non-profit leadership
Bring Your Board Recruitment to the Next Level

Picture it: you’ve got some openings on your board, but you don’t know where to start looking for new board members. Don’t despair, there is a smart way to step through this challenge – AND get your organization to the next level.

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Use the QUICCK Method to Improve Board Member Stewardship at Special Events

When your organization has a major event and several board members attend, it is an exciting situation. However, engaging your board members as Special Events Ambassadors during events can support your organization with stewardship and fundraising efforts.

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Board Governance 101

Board governance is critical to your organization’s success, as well as maintaining an engaged Board of Directors that understands its responsibilities — and what it is not responsible for. Ultimately, governance ensures everything is working as it should by clarifying and maintaining the outlined roles.

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Why Legacy Practices & Assumptions Will Ruin Nonprofits

While legacy practices – the things that your nonprofit does year after year simply because “that’s how it has always been done” – make for easy planning and consistency, they could be preventing your organization from thinking strategically about each initiative and hindering your ability to keep up with the needs of today’s donors.

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Industry Insights: Data-Driven Decisions

We believe data is important to drive sound decision-making and avoid the “see-what-sticks” approach on which many organizations rely heavily. We utilize data when helping clients with their fundraising strategies; however, organizations can extrapolate the concept to support innovation and new ideas with evidence, ultimately leading to a higher success rate.

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Establishing a Data-Driven Culture in your Organization

For many professional fundraisers, especially at smaller nonprofits, the idea of a shift in focus or priority can be daunting and the ability to make that change may be out of your control. So, when nonprofit leaders think about establishing a culture within your organization where data is respected, embraced, and acted upon, it can seem like a daunting task.

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6 Resolutions for Non-Profit Executives in January 2020

With the new year upon us, non-profit organizations too often tend to use the first few weeks of the month to recover from the holiday giving season, clean out old e-mails, organize their offices, and stress about the months ahead. But during this “downtime”, non-profit executives should perform important tasks and ascertain critical information to ensure their organization is on the right path.

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