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Two Simple Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Strategies to Enhance the Quality of Participation

July 17, 2017
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Books, Evernote, Management and Leadership, Nitro Pro, Software

Two Simple Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Strategies to Enhance the Quality of Participation 1. The Meeting Agenda Assembly / Distribution Challenge As a nonprofit leader, you’ve lived through this scenario, only to have your blood pressure rise and your patience tested severely. Here it is: You arrive at a meeting that you organized. This could be a meeting of your board or it could be a meeting of a committee that you chair. One-third of the participants are on…

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By Barbara Hopkins
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Forces for Good: The 6 Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

July 12, 2017
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Books, Management and Leadership

If you're small and trying to grow bigger and have high impact, take heart. Most of the things you beat yourself up about don't really matter all that much, at least according Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Their research shows that perfect management, brand awareness, breakthrough ideas, textbook mission statements, overhead ratios and large budgets are not the best measures of nonprofit excellence. The best measure, it turns out, is the extent to which a nonprofit can mobilize…

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5 Reasons Why Hosting a Houseparty is a Great Fundraising Idea for Growing Your Nonprofit

July 10, 2017
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Akubo, Board Development, Books, Fundraising, Marketing

If there's one fact about philanthropy that has withstood the test of time it's that individuals are the greatest source of donations. As shown in the chart below, individual giving comprised 71 percent of all philanthropic gifts in 2016. What's even more interesting about this fact is that most of the individual donors are not wealthy. Rather, they are people of more modest means without a lot of disposable income. These folks typically make up the base of the traditional…

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Top 10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause

July 4, 2017
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Evernote, Software

10 Nonprofit Management Apps for Saving Your Sanity and Advancing Your Cause If much of advancing your nonprofit's cause rests on your shoulders, you need a few tools that will help you lighten that load. If you are going to build a base of donors or sponsors, moreover, you are going to need to build an email list and track and communicate with the people on that list in a professional way. Here are my top ten nonprofit management apps…

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