The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 3, 2014

As part of the whole, "nonprofits need to operate more like businesses" meme, the means for analysis are primarily market-driven tools for evaluating programs that exist because of market failures. culture donors evaluation giving Nonprofit philanthropy' So, why help one person in poverty in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. Develop and fund a sales and marketing capability from the outset. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But one of the things that may not be super clear in your mind around, what's behind a marketing agency is what we're trying to do is we're trying to take all of the pressure that you might have around growing your business and run how you find clients. The Vision & Value of Strategic Partnership (0:50). Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But one of the things that may not be super clear in your mind around, what's behind a marketing agency is what we're trying to do is we're trying to take all of the pressure that you might have around growing your business and run how you find clients. The Vision & Value of Strategic Partnership (0:50). Positioning Pitfalls (5:58).

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 5, 2013

After all, the way your client’s organization has been operating in the past is because one or more people felt strongly that their organization should be operating that way (even though that way they were operating may have caused their problems and is actually what needs to be changed). Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Development is hard pressed to interface with operations. Yet it is extremely important that this interface be workable because developments are not relevant until they find their way into operations. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods. Operations are based in control.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 2, 2014

The nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliate blames higher health costs that are a result of attracting older adults this year who previously lacked coverage and are using more services than expected. Florida Blue CEO Patrick Geraghty noted that premiums in the individual market have been going up for years. “In

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

For example, say I’m working with a team of people representing a bottling operation in a brewery, and the team has figured out how to redesign the bottling operation to reduce costs, simplify the process, and increase production. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. – Washington, DC. Honorable Mention List of firms in Washington, DC.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

All systems operate on a steady-state called homeostasis and they operate within norms and standards. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management. Customer Service. Facilitation. Free Management Library Blogs.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

DECEMBER 16, 2010

They operate from self-evaluated standards. I am sure we have all seen groups operate from these various stages, or plateaus. We can observe groups operating at various stages of moral development in their assumptions and behaviors. The conscious operate from a self-evaluated set of standards. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 29, 2014

The system is dysfunctional and arbitrary due to these outdated laws that handcuff school administrators from operating in a fashion that protects children and their right to quality education," attorney Theodore Boutrous of the education advocacy group Students Matter said in a media call. Molesters pay dues, kids don''t.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

They usually provide highly specialized content expertise regarding certain specific systems and processes in the organization, for example, computer systems, financial and accounting systems, market research or facilities management. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. All of our early funding came from either nonprofit or government sources.”

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Most of the food in the local market doesn’t look much like what you are use to and the bed sags and the rooster wakes you up too early to imagine. You would extend your physical and mental antennae to not miss a cue that might be a clue as to how to operate successfully as a stranger in a strange land. Fundraising for Nonprofits.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

Fellow nonprofit blogger, Gayle Roberts , has suggested that I look into my crystal ball and give you a posting from ten years in the future. Back when all the 'experts' were warning of the coming nonprofit leadership shortage? The trend of nonprofit mergers and bankruptcies more than kept pace with the loss of baby boomer leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 6, 2013

With recent emphasis on the importance of using a highly facilitative and collaborative leadership style when guiding change, leaders are beginning to operate more like internal consultants for change then ever before. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Crisis Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

OCTOBER 15, 2011

It helps the client know the true costs in successfully operating his or her organization. ” Is it decreased employee turnover, increased profit or successful operation of a technical system? Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JULY 26, 2010

The systems vantage point is the whole operation within its environment operating within a steady state, which keeps it viable. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Input, transformation and output: this is basic process-task in the architecture of systems.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 10, 2010

The design is similar to creating and operating a “marching organization.” Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. From Vertical to Horizontal By Jim Smith on May 10, 2010. We live in traditional organizations that are functional and vertically managed. Crisis Management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

There are certain types of general knowledge that would likely be the same, especially: a) General frameworks from which to develop and/or operate systems, for example, performance management systems, financial systems or marketing systems. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 19, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Carl Jung (1875-1971) postulated the power of archetypes operating in the human psyche and emphasized the role of the Shadow , those aspects of who we are that have not yet been integrated. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Leadership.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

Sometimes consulting is operating in a house of mirrors. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. What is me and what is not me are important to differentiate. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management. Customer Service. Facilitation. Human Resources.

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Emerson Consulting Group

APRIL 4, 2019

If your target market consists of multiple specific industries, spreading the good word about your service and products via industry publications can amplify and extend the reach of your marketing. This tactic is a fine example of how published articles can function not only as marketing tools but as selling tools as well.

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Emerson Consulting Group

JANUARY 31, 2019

Operating in this manner, you will no longer feel a need to shoehorn all the features, bells and whistles into the conversation. Are You Targeting the Right Market? Yet it may be instead that the market we’ve targeted doesn’t really want or even need our service.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. Sourcing for Commitment.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Organizations, whether businesses or nonprofits, almost universally pursue growth. Where are the markets with opportunities? Pursuing growth this way can put tremendous pressure on your enterprise to extend into new markets that seem hot — but where your enterprise has no capabilities to win.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 16, 2014

As I searched around for a particular subject to write on, it hit me that I could not narrow it down to a single aspect of inequality that I could relate to work in the nonprofit sector. For each of these issues there is a nonprofit connection, with agencies and activists working tirelessly to right these wrongs. The list goes on.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 10, 2006

They also manage and operate a 24-unit apartment building at below-market rents. Currently, the space that they operate out of is a small house and adjacent double-wide trailer. Tags: nonprofit , St. At this point, we are a little over half-way to our $4 million goal.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” All agreed to write and speak on the topic. Today, the Agile Alliance has nearly 30,000 members and subscribers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It knew it had to act fast, so top leaders began by challenging major assumptions about how they operated. The CEO and COO of a multisite nonprofit were rolling out a new strategy started with tight, rules-laden processes and playbooks. Instead of do-it-ourselves, they worked with Google and Motorola.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JANUARY 30, 2012

Many practitioners might assert that they just operate by “gut feel” – they intuitively sense the situation, how to work with their clients, and what should occur as a result. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Can you explain them? Are they associated with any theory(s)?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Supermarkets can sponsor and team up with chefs to demonstrate how to utilize leftover ingredients and food.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 3, 2018

We do that with taking a hard look at their operations, helping them streamline, optimize and choose the right technology to support those operations. How were they taking advantage of this concept of building relationships using information to strengthen your relationships with your constituents in the nonprofit sector?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2017

He highlights the short-term focus of financial markets and of political systems, and also the need to change consumer preferences and habits, as three big areas that need to change at the system level. For example, installing a rapidly deployable flood barrier around your campus can help keep your buildings operational during megastorms.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

What are our operating assumptions and where did they come from? Fundraising for Nonprofits. Marketing and Social Media. Nonprofit Capacity Building. This is the first blog post in a six-part series about the history of OD.). Introduction to this Blog Series. Whose ‘conceptual DNA’ runs in our veins? Crisis Management.

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MishTalk

JULY 26, 2014

The Vergara lawsuit was backed by Students Matter, a nonprofit educational policy advocacy group funded by Silicon Valley entrepreneur David Welch. Then there were the so-called “rubber rooms” of New York City, which operated until 2010.

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