The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2010

But that's simply activity. Tags: boards of directors Nonprofit twitter engagement. My first thought on "engagement" is that it is demonstrated by involvement beyond speaking up at board meetings: committee work, volunteering for tedious tasks ( envelope stuffing anybody? ), sending out minutes on time. To some extent, it's busy work.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

MAY 27, 2014

It’s more of a guided conversation with an activity, but it can be used as a primer on StrengthsFinder. Additionally, make some sort of name tag that is easily visible when you’re talking in a one on one conversation. Why This Activity? Which of your themes felt “on” during the activity. What’s Next?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I can't think of any national foundations, off hand, that are interested in funding merger type activity. Tags: Nonprofit funding mergers foundations.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 25, 2008

Post Board Activity - Maybe full board meeting minutes would be a bit too detailed, but why not a monthly summary of board activity and decisions made? Start Blogging - Show that your efforts at transparency aren't just an annual activity coinciding with your audit and 990s. Tags: web 2.0

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Assigning ownership increases accountability for both achieving the desired outcome and carrying out the activities needed to get there. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level. In a major U.K. Markdowns also increase as a store may be carrying surplus stock as items reach end of life.

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Leadership Vision Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

One simple activity we have found particularly effective at drawing out Strengths behaviors is a cooking class. Each team member has a name tag with their strengths listed (and we have a cheat sheet as well). I also noticed you have Activator. What activities have you done to help you better understand strengths behaviors?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today comes another study to confirm this vital link between your organization's volunteer and fundraising activities. Tags: donors volunteers Nonprofit involvement fundraising. Only one third of the non-volunteers indicated a "lack of interest" as their primary reason for not volunteering.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

You have key stakeholders who actively engage with your organization on dedicated social media platforms. Monitoring the discussions, activity and news reports around your brand in a crisis will help you communicate even more effectively with your stakeholders. and investor relations will monitor investor inquiries and activity.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Engaged boards read and understand monthly financial statements and accept their responsibility for fundraising activities that will ensure the organization's short-term stability and long-term sustainability. An active and involved board builds the leadership skills of all its members through assignments on committees and special projects.

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Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 14, 2017

The first article in this series about how to optimize LinkedIn profiles explains how to create an excellent first impression with a photo, background image, and a succinct “tag line” to summarize your brand and expertise. Definitely list all of your certifications, even if they aren’t active.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 13, 2008

It's the biggest volunteering event on the calendar, and it's a great opportunity for you to encourage socially minded folks (like your organization's supporters) to participate in local activities. It affords a chance for individuals to reach out and discover fun and meaningful volunteer activities in their own neighborhoods.”.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Pre-packaged projects (very common in marketing) are predefined and often have a strong focus on either deliverables or activities. Examples for retainer pricing The price-tags on a retainer vary immensely, based on scope of work the nature of the retainer (hours or access) and how sought after the consultant is.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

DECEMBER 4, 2006

concepts, such as tagging and feeds, and how they can improve our practices. More effective integration of cause and effect using tags and feeds. But with proper use of tagging, RSS, etc., But with proper use of tagging, RSS, etc., His questions and my answers follow. They do this now, manually, with major disasters.

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In a world of increasingly invasive technology, the digital consumer is beginning to truly feel the impact of machines becoming more sensitive to the activities of our daily lives. Data transfer capability between bluetooth enabled devices. NFC – Near Field Communication.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 15, 2007

According to a new survey by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, 64% of American adults had "performed some type of volunteer activity in 2006". A sizable majority of your community members, constituents, potential supporters, and neighbors are actively involved in helping nonprofit organizations achieve their missions. How about both.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 23, 2010

Any fewer and you will burn out your members quickly with multiple duties, have difficulty making a quorum when even a couple of people are ill or out-of-town, and you will fail to build in new leadership development into your regular board activities. Tags: boards of directors Nonprofit.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

And 48 percent of the new jobs, according to Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, will emphasize a mix of hard and soft intellectual skills, like active listening, leadership, communication, analytics, and administration competencies. How can companies get a better idea of which skills employees and job candidates have?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MARCH 11, 2009

Successful nonprofits appear to be putting more focus on development activities, particularly donor relations, including cultivation of major donors. Tags: Nonprofit planning fundraising economy. This is nothing new. But today we don't have the time to take chances like that.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 23, 2010

Clearing these non-organizations off the rosters of legitimate charities could only be a good thing, as it will leave a clearer picture of what organizations are active, and all the good work that they are doing. Tags: charity Nonprofit 990 taxes accounting.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 30, 2009

The nonprofit does pay taxes on that portion of their income, but as long as it doesn't become their primary activity, it doesn't endanger their tax-exempt status for the charitable work. Tags: profit Nonprofit business. In this case, the IRS sees the profit from that enterprise as "Unrelated Business Income."

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2006

This is not a replacement for any of your nonprofit's current fundraising activity, but if you have an active contingent of volunteers or supporters who would like to do something more, this could bring in a few extra dollars. Tags: nonprofit , fundraising , donations , online

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

The.ORG domain, which has come to be associated with noncommercial activities, is the Internet's third largest "generic" or non-country specific top-level domain." Tags: nonprofit , dot-org , web , domain names Viltz, President and CEO of PIR. That means, getting your organization's name (dot-org) before somebody else does.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Like most all social networking platforms, Care2 allows users to create personal profiles to share their interests, but here the focus is on activism. Tags: care2 , nonprofit , social networking , online activism The site I'm referring to is Care2.com There are groups, much like MySpace, etc.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. Adopting these habits may require some coaching of managers, as well as incentivizing these activities, but they can go a long way toward building collective purpose in and across teams. The Dollars (and Sense) of Meaningful Work.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

With all of this activity, blogging has been pushed aside. Tags: projects Nonprofit blogging mission priorities. But this could also be an interesting topic for a nonprofit blog; what gets left undone when you get busy with everything else? What's falling through the cracks at your nonprofit organization?

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 10, 2009

For those organizations who have staff whose primary role is public communications, and who are tech-savvy, Twitter can be a great way to connect with potential supporters, organize activities, and (yes) raise needed funds. Tags: web 2.0 Nonprofit social media marketing twitter.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 8, 2006

Buying and selling mailing lists is a perfectly legal activity, but it is not without ethical issues. The problem with that policy is that it is up to the donor to figure out that their names might be sold and be pro-active about removing it. It is a much better policy for the nonprofit to be the pro-active one.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

But according to cognitive science , everybody, by virtue of having a brain that’s constantly seeking efficiency, is biased in some way — and not all biases make us actively malicious. The manager can keep a tally of how many meetings the person leads and how many times the person tag-teams with a coworker on a project.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 12, 2006

In total, about 4,000 jobs were supported because of local nonprofit activity. Tags: nonprofit , economic impact , San Luis Obispo Among the findings: Nonprofits contribute more than $260 million ($242 million plus an additional $20 million impact on construction spending) annually to the county's economy. Taxes totaling at least $23.8

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This may seem simple enough for employee emails, but presents challenges for third party messages and other online activities. For example, if a company is using DLP to monitor employees’ online activities, it should first consider and comply with employee monitoring laws. A risk-based approach for monitoring.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

If you're not already set-up for, and actively promoting, online fundraising this better give you some ideas. Tags: nonprofit , online giving , charity , donors , fundraising Does that give you any ideas?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2016

To use this service, consumers simply tweet @wherenext and geo-tag their location to receive recommendations of restaurants, events, or clubs in their area, effectively turning mobile phones into a customized map of city hotspots. BuzzFeed’s Native Ads.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 22, 2010

In the future this activity will be frequent enough that organizations will say "we're always talking" but that doesn't mean we're always "getting serious." Tags: alliances Nonprofit collaboration interview books mergers. I would say that once you get over that first hurdle of the feasibility stage, your chances are quite high.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 8, 2008

Meanwhile, I'll get back to blogging, and shift back from "contemplative mode" to "active mode." Tags: grant writing Nonprofit leadership future consulting. I've been sent a great new book, Grassroots Philanthropy: Field NOtes of a Maverick Grantmaker by Bill Somerville and Fred Setterberg, that I'll be reviewing shortly too.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The old outcome measures: # families recruited # families certified and active # speaking engagements # newspaper articles # brochures distributed % placements made within 24 hours Under the old mission, the organization's measures of success were focused on the size of its volunteer corps, not on how services created change for children.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

A side benefit is that we can also track the online interactions while reviewing the recording, thanks to simple tags we embed in the chat stream marking each section of the presentation. Billy is on the board of directors of Tableau Software (NYSE:DATA) and is an active contributor to the Forbes Technology Council.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 5, 2006

I have involved staff at lower pay levels in development through other types of fundraising activities. Involve line staff through voluntary activities and competition. Tags: nonprofit , fundraising , staff , giving , employees , fundraiser , culture of philanthropy An example would be the selling of raffle or event tickets.

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