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Improving Nonprofit Productivity with SOPs and More

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Working with multiple social impact organizations, I constantly search for ways to optimize both and increase overall nonprofit productivity. Why Nonprofit Productivity Matters An intentional focus on nonprofit productivity is helpful if you’re looking to maximize mission output.

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

This article was adapted from “Activating Loving Awareness through Contemplative Technology” by Sará King, published in Can AI Heal Us? , Love as an act, a presence, a skill, a relational orientation, and an intention to be actively cultivated is not a phenomenon that we can measure holistically in any quantitative sense.

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7 Time Leaks That Are Zapping Your Nonprofit Productivity

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If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. Let participants know ahead of time what those 3 agenda items are so they can be prepared for productive conversation. Read here for ways to keep yours yawn free and productive.

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How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These traditional approaches often include set and inflexible timelines, budgets, and activities designed by donors who are removed from the local context. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means. Productization encourages funders to focus less on the challenge they seek to fund and more on how they fund it.

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Get more done in a day (and boost your fundraising productivity!) with these 12 smart hacks

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Fundraising productivity is not just about how much you can get done to raise money. It’s about being strategic and focusing on the RIGHT activities. I doubt that’s what you want, so let’s look at 12 hacks that can keep you focused, save you time, and increase your fundraising productivity. 12 Fundraising Productivity Hacks 1.

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The 10 Keys to Nonprofit Communications Success

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Within those keys, there are 60+ activities and skills that we’ve included in our recommended professional development plans. Key 8: Productivity, Relationships, and Boundaries. You can get those plans by clicking on the Get Started or Take the Quiz buttons on the homepage. Key 7: Visual Content Skills and Creation.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity. The empirical record is clear.