Too Good To Be True: Sustainability Through Earned-Income?
| Posted in Management on Oct 24, 2012 by |
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Necessity is the mother of invention and difficult times can inspire creativity. As we all know so well when non-profits are faced with a declining economy funding can be compromised. In light of this challenging economic environment more and more non-profits are pursuing innovative earned income and entrepreneurial efforts to sustain their vision and mission. It’s important to realize that profit is not denied to a nonprofit as long as the ...
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Organizational Leadership: Key To Sustainability
| Posted in Management on Oct 14, 2012 by |
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Leadership is a skill that is not reserved solely for managers, directors, VPs, or anyone else who is the head of a department or an organization. It is a crucial quality that any valuable employee should demonstrate in some form or another in the workplace. The term “leadership” can encompass a wide variety of actions and attitudes; it does not necessarily apply only to a single leader of a group. Leadership can manifest in small actions that ...
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FundingFactory.com Launching New Goal-tracking And Sustainability Reporting Features
| Posted in Fundraising on Sep 9, 2012 |
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To kick off the 2012-2013 school year, FundingFactory is launching new goal-tracking and sustainability reporting features on FundingFactory.com. Participants in the free fundraising-by-recycling program can sign into their accounts to set a yearly fundraising goal, measure their progress, and share that information with students, parents, community members, and business supporters. In a time of budget shortfalls and escalating costs, the ...
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2011 Great American Cleanup Results Demonstrate The Role Of Volunteers In Reinforcing Civic Pride
| Posted in Volunteerism on Nov 13, 2011 |
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More than 3.8 million volunteers and participants joined hands to produce more vibrant, beautiful and cleaner communities during Keep America Beautiful's 2011 Great American Cleanup, the nation's largest grassroots community improvement program. The 2011 results have been tallied with volunteers donating more than 5.2 million hours at 30,600 events in 16,500 communities throughout all 50 states.
The Great American Cleanup, which takes ...
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6 Marketing Strategies Taken From The McDonald’s Playbook
| Posted in Marketing on Aug 17, 2011 by |
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How often have you sworn you’d never eat fast food again only to be tempted after seeing an ad for the latest burger, burrito, or frozen treat? Most of us know that the food is never quite as good as it looks in the advertisement yet we can’t seem to help ourselves. So how do they make the food seem so irresistible? They do it through marketing and communications.
McDonald’s has long been an icon of marketing success. In fact, a 2010 study by ...
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Staff Retention: How Does Your Garden Grow?
| Posted in Management on May 20, 2011 by |
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The success of every nonprofit is a product of its staff. Managing and nurturing the staff is important to having a successful agency.
Remember the nursery rhyme: Merry Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow?
Tradition has it that Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII of England, was the main character in the rhyme. The garden was the growing number of graves that her policies were filling.
How is your staff retention? Are your ...
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4 Questions To Answer When Building Your Bench
| Posted in Management on May 16, 2011 by |
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Heading into the 2011 season, the St. Louis Cardinals pitching rotation was one of the best in all of baseball. However, when it was announced that Adam Wainwright, the #1 pitcher in the rotation, suffered an injury that would sideline him for the season, things quickly changed. People began questioning whether or not the team would even be able to finish second in the division.
Fortunately for the fans, the Cardinals had invested valuable ...
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Nonprofits And Board Succession: Having A Successor Plan
| Posted in Management on May 8, 2011 by |
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Successor planning is important. However, it is hard to do. Many organizations try to use a formula but with limited success. Successor planning answers the simple question: Who should replace the current leader?
Each year the question is asked and answered for the professional staff. The board decides whether to keep or replace the senior professional. The senior professional decides whether to keep or replace each subordinate. And the ...
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Sustainability Planning - It Takes More Than Money
| Posted in Management on Apr 15, 2011 by |
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Sustainability planning is an ambiguous concept. It is something that many funders are now requiring of potential grantees but it hasn’t been clearly defined as to what goes into a sustainability plan.
Most nonprofit leaders understand that funders and investors want to see that they are planning for the future and will be able to continue providing services after the funding cycle ends. However, without a template to follow many are ...
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Redefining Capacity Building
| Posted in Management on Mar 25, 2011 by |
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Capacity building has for a long time meant different things to different practitioners. For the community organizer, it means teaching low-income leaders the skills they need to successfully build a sustainable organization around their mission: budgeting, governance, accounting, volunteer and staff development and training. For established nonprofits and their professional staffs it often refers to discrete projects like strategic planning, ...
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The Importance Of Donor Involvement
| Posted in Fundraising on Mar 18, 2011 by |
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There are many horror stories about donors who become too involved. They want to tell the management how to run the nonprofit. Is this preventable?
Of course, the horror stories are preventable. One of the ways to prevent it is limit the amount of input the donors are allowed to have. Treat them like minor stockholders in a major corporation. They give their money, receive reports, and receive an invitation to the annual meeting. Do that and ...
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Creating Social Change Through Effective Collaboration
| Posted in Management on Mar 3, 2011 by |
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While discussing the concept of social change with my students at Washington University, I was posed with this question, “If the social sector is larger and stronger than ever; why are we still confronting the same social problems? Shouldn’t we be solving some of them by now?” As a professor, I love a good question and this is one I have honestly asked myself often throughout my own career. I was a bit stumped by how to answer this and, upon ...
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