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Ready to Grow Your Nonprofit? Develop and Align 7 Key Elements

August 6, 2017
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Camtasia, Fundraising, Management and Leadership, Marketing, Snagit, Software

Ready to Grow Your Nonprofit? Develop and Align 7 Key Elements You can find many good websites and blogs on the Internet offering excellent information and advice on running a nonprofit. I’ve highlighted a lot of them on my resource page. The challenge is that often the information is not germane to a small organization trying to build capacity and grow. And there are potentially a lot of organizations trying to do just that. How Many Nonprofits May…

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By Barbara Hopkins
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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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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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