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5 Signs Your Employees are Burned Out + What to Do About It

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

They arent actively participating or taking initiative. New ideas and perspectives allow your nonprofit to hone its strategies and improve how it meets community needs. Next Steps To reinspire employees and improve active participation, consider implementing these strategies: Build a safe space for sharing ideas.

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4 Key Components of a Successful Online Fundraising Store

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

These cards often include buy-one-get-one-free deals at local stores, 50% off movie or museum tickets, and discounts on activities like dining and travelmaking them practical and appealing. Beyond raising funds, a peer-to-peer approach helps participants build valuable leadership skills. Did you enjoy this story?

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10 Internal Controls for Safe Nonprofit Finances

Top Nonprofits

This policy ensures no one can write a check that hasn’t been authorized or approved by one other member of the nonprofit. You might even tighten the security for this control and require the second signature to be made by someone in a leadership position. Segregating staff duties. Those exercising financial oversight.

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Toward Sustainability: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Guest Blog by Jon Osterburg of Jitasa In recent years, “sustainability” has become a buzzword for many fields and practices, and nonprofit finances are no exception. Your organization’s leadership team has likely discussed how to create a “sustainable” funding model to fuel “sustainable” growth. Chief financial officer (CFO).

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7 Ways Bad Leadership in Fundraising Drives Away Your Best Gift Officers

iMarketSmart

’” – Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple Ahhh, leadership. When you have great leadership, the progress, growth, joy, and unity you feel is unlike anything else. This is true for nonprofits as well as any other organization or venture. Unfortunately, bad leadership in fundraising has the opposite effect.

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How Embracing Risk and Spending Money Can Help Nonprofits Make More Money

Bloomerang

Here’s something I ask all of my clients and potential clients to consider: The revenue trajectory of your organization has much more to do with the leadership’s comfort level with investing in spending than with some of their revenue-generating ideas. That leaves you an extra 15% to direct to other activities. .

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Your Nonprofit Needs To Establish A Rainy Day Fund. Here’s Why That Is And How You Can Convince Others To Get On Board.

Bloomerang

Find legacy programs online that look active and dynamic. If applicable, find out how they persuaded their leadership to start their rainy day fund. If possible, try to locate organizations that work in your field, are local, and/or are similar in size.