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9 Essential Nonprofit Management Skills & Development Tips

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As a nonprofit professional, you understand that investing in your staff is the best way to develop your organization. While some skills are innate, many nonprofit management skills can be taught. By investing your time and energy into gaining the necessary skills, you can set yourself up for success in your field.

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5 Ways to Make Progress Daily and Keep Your #NPCOMM Work on Track

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Making a little progress every day is really important to staying motivated and happy in your work. But when you feel like you are getting pulled in a hundred different directions, as many nonprofit communicators are, that can be tough. Actively Manage Your Decision Points. ” Here are 5 I like.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides our webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program.

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From Novice To Champion: Empowering Board Members

Bloomerang

Conversely, a toxic, dysfunctional, or low-performing board can destroy your nonprofit. To successfully manage your board, you need to do three things: Determine exactly what you expect of them from the beginning. Young Nonprofit Professionals groups. What motivates you? So, where do you find great board members?

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Industry Founders Challenge CDFIs to Embrace a More Expansive Vision

NonProfit Quarterly

At this year’s sector conference, organized by the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a sellout crowd of over 2,200 people participated and considered where CDFIs needed to go and what they needed to do. An overwhelming majority of CDFIs today, however, are nonprofits. It was a nonprofit. This year, that exploration continued.

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Revolution Won’t Be Tweeted

The Agitator

If you or your nonprofit are devotees of Facebook and Twitter, his article is sure to fire you up! Social networks are effective at increasing participation —by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires. In fact, it’s the kind of commitment that will bring only social acknowledgment and praise.&#

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Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). We publicize our salaries in job listings, of course. Often, culture is simply neglected.

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