Fundraising Leadership

MAY 12, 2024

Speakers at the recent “Let’s Talk Menopause” symposium (L to R): Dr. Mary Claire Haver; Dr. Sharon Malone; Tamsen Fadal; Dr. Lisa Larkin; Dr. Lauren Streicher; Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg; Stephanie Prendergast, MPT; Dr. Sameena Rahman. Very few people could pull this off, but Halle Barry sure did. On the steps of the U.S. But it’s time to be real.

Culture 73

Culture Healthcare Medical Public and Nonprofit Management 73

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The fear of producing repetitive, unoriginal content that sounds like every other organization using AI. AI is Here to Stay to It’s Time to Create Policies About AI Use No question, AI can save nonprofit communicators a great deal of time and energy. We’ve all heard the criticisms about using AI (artificial intelligence).

Communication 87

Communication Marketing Marketing Ethics 87

Fundraising Leadership

JANUARY 28, 2024

You are the product of the top five people around you so ask yourself these questions : ● Are they empathetic in times of a setback? You are the product of the top five people around you so ask yourself these questions : ● Are they empathetic in times of a setback? ● Step 1: Evaluate Your Network. Step 3: Know Your Worth.

Energy 52

Energy Psychology Leadership Production 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The organizational culture was one of fear, poor communication, an abundance of rules, and micromanaging. Except maybe a “ thanks for flying with us ” as you deplane, they are behind a locked door separate from the crew and passengers. And the crew is left to interpret.  This can be how some CEOs function in their organization.

Leadership 203

Leadership Altruism and Helping Children Nonprofit Leadership 203

Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 19, 2023

But ask yourself: Did you offer that kind of constant visibility to any of your fundraising event sponsors? And they can change the deal at any time. Have the courage to stop using gimmicks – ask directly Your cause isn’t a gimmick, So your fundraising shouldn’t be a gimmick either. The best part?

Advertising 98

Advertising Fundraising Fundraising Activism 98

Jeff Brooks

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

After the staff of this community social service organization in a mid-sized US city finished celebrating, they asked What now? After the staff of this community social service organization in a mid-sized US city finished celebrating, they asked What now? For a seven-figure donation. Transformational for their work.

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Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In her first book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine , author, ER physician and former professor of medicine, Uche Blackstock writes about growing up in Brooklyn with her twin sister, Oni, watching their mother, a Harvard Medical School grad, deal with patents and workloads. mustreads #bookrecs ” 1.

Culture 107

Culture Leadership Universities Psychology 107

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By Katie Smith Milway & Susan Wolf Ditkoff The research is clear: diverse teams get better results. From 2019 to 2021 corporate boards increased their diversity by 50 percent , just as many social sector boards have responded to societal wakeup calls by recruiting more members who can represent the communities they serve.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance Leadership 114

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. This is critical given the accelerated rate of digital change. trillion U.S.

Culture 148

Culture Technology Energy Universities 148

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. This is critical given the accelerated rate of digital change. trillion U.S.

Culture 147

Culture Technology Energy Universities 147

Bloomerang

JUNE 9, 2021

Has anyone ever asked you, “I just don’t get it. In fact, most people would rather make a public speech than ask for money, and public speaking is ranked higher on the fear scale than talking about death! . Much of this is because asking for money is fraught with power imbalances. . Well, here it is: 12141.

Fundraising 114

Fundraising Fundraising Philanthropy Education 114

Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

It’s “impolite” to ask someone how much they earn or how much they have in savings. Fear of judgment is just one of the many hangups we have about money. Supercharge your board fundraising Board fundraising is one of the thorniest challenges in nonprofit leadership. In the end, it’s the organization that loses out.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Governance 98

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

How you as a leader deal with the trauma your colleagues have in the workplace determines everyone’s success. Sometimes it is impossible to keep calm and carry on. Understanding what post-traumatic stress disorder can do to colleagues and how to address the crossover to the workplace is critical. “ The stress is real.

Psychology 67

Psychology Health Leadership Nonprofit Administration and Development 67

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: “Change with the seasons” by Martine Mooijenkind Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s winter 2023 issue, “Love as Social Order: How Do We Build a World Based in Love?” Every gardener—everyone who ever had a yard—knows that when you cut off a weed at its base, it grows back.

Values 87

Values Culture Race and Ethnicity Leadership 87

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Imposter syndrome in the workplace is the fear that you are not qualified (or perceived to be qualified) for your current job or role. Imposter syndrome in the workplace is the fear that you are not qualified (or perceived to be qualified) for your current job or role. Volunteers are often asked to take on significant leadership roles.

Nonprofit Leadership 98

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 98

Fundraising Leadership

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Many deal with a form of Imposter Syndrome, but there are ways to address it. For a long time, it caused me to become risk-averse for fear of looking stupid or embarrassed. Fear will crop up. With practice we can rise above those natural, fear-based thoughts and create more self-confidence. Photo by energepic.com).

Leadership 52

Leadership Education Education Nonprofits 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Read the first post on overcoming the fear that your story doesn’t matter. . And by getting comfortable with our stories and sharing them, we can make a great deal of difference both personally and professionally. . You might even ask yourself, “Who am I to make a difference? This post is part of a series on limiting beliefs.

Nonprofits 96

Nonprofits Values Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations 96

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Without economic transformation, just transitions, and green new deals, the world’s population will unevenly experience the accelerating catastrophe of planetary death—and the conference began by endowing “us” with purpose to shift the multiple and uneven paradigms of climate inequality.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Environmental Energy Governance 90

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 29, 2020

With the framing shifted away from busy people missing your meeting to decisionmaking and delegation, you can now ask: What do you trust me with as part of my job responsibilities and where do you or someone else need to be involved? But you have to be willing to confront both your own fears (“Do I know enough?”)

Collaborations 73

Collaborations Culture Communication Nonprofits 73

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 18, 2021

Fear, worry, and uncertainty about moving forward. Now that you know where the bottlenecks are, you can try a few different approaches by asking these questions. What you are asking the person in the bottleneck to do may simply be a mismatch with what they are actually capable of doing. Technology being too slow or cumbersome.

Communication 94

Communication Marketing Marketing Production 94

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to ask donors to pay associated credit card fees with purchases and donations. . We already ask people to “opt-in” to help cover fees at the end of the evening.

Associations 83

Associations Retail Values Fundraising 83

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Or you may ask your friends, coworkers, and family to give a few bucks. Your plan should also include what you’ll do when you’re NOT asking for money like donor communications, stewardship, and warm touches — all designed to give the donor a GREAT experience. But fear not – you can use this to your advantage!

Fundraising 111

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management 111

Pam Moore

MARCH 12, 2024

Question Everything: Ask yourself – Is this thought beneficial? Limitless Mindset Rewrite Your Script In the Age of AI In a world where brains operate like buzzing super computers, processing 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts daily, it's more crucial than ever to filter the noise and focus on what truly matters. State = everything! Is it true?

Technology 78

Technology Energy Leadership Marketing 78

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2024

Image credit: Yermine Richardson/ www.popcaribe.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.” It cannot be a coincidence. 7 One study respondent said, “[Black women] are not doing well.”

Race and Ethnicity 119

Race and Ethnicity Health Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 119

Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Your best competitive weapon in a sea of digital change is a limitless digital mindset that smashes limiting beliefs. The only guarantee marketing and business leaders have today is change. Learning how to navigate digital transformation will make or break your business. This is critical given the accelerated rate of digital change. trillion U.S.

Culture 78

Culture Technology Energy Universities 78

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 25, 2024

Leaders notice this, and they ask themselves, “Why bother leading…it seems thankless.” It can be lonely and isolating to be a nonprofit executive director. Being a leader of any kind may sound sexy (or scary), but anyone who has been a leader understands the isolation, the ups and downs, and how lonely it can be.

Nonprofit Leadership 52

Nonprofit Leadership Leadership Nonprofits Poverty 52

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Let other people put things on your to-do list, no questions asked. Ultimately, you’ll need to stand up for yourself, set some boundaries, and let OTHERS deal with the consequences of crossing those boundaries, rather than rescuing people from themselves and making everything OK. Identify Your Fears. via GIPHY.

Communication 72

Communication Energy Leadership Nonprofits 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 8, 2024

By Chanda Causer I had just been handed the keys to a shiny, red sports car and could not wait to get in the driver’s seat. It was my dream role, the executive director of a national advocacy organization. I was excited about all the possibilities. I was ready to drive. Or so I thought. There wasn’t anything. The shiny red car was an empty shell.

Nonprofit governance and management 112

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Non-Profits 112

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In 2020 I shut down Esperanza San Felipe, a nonprofit I had founded seven years earlier that some, including myself, once thought held the secret to tackling one of the world’s most intractable problems: gang violence. The Beginning: Success … In One Community. Importantly, I had a solid base to work from. We started small.

Participation and motivation 119

Participation and motivation Governance Construction Nonprofits 119

Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 3, 2015

Asking Styles by Andrea Kihlstedt. Asking by Jerold Panas. Ask Without Fear! These books are: Asking Styles by Andrea Kihlstedt. Ask Without Fear! If you're like many nonprofit leaders, this is the month of the last minute scramble to get out of the office and grab some vacation. Pitman (of course!).

Non-Profits 103

Non-Profits Leadership Retention Nonprofits 103

The Charity CFO

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Most nonprofit leaders aren’t accountants and the thought of getting audited is a sizable fear. You’ll likely want to ask your nonprofit accountant to help you set up your accounting systems so you know they’re correct from the start. Does the idea of an audit from the IRS leave you with sweaty palms?

Nonprofit Accountability 52

Nonprofit Accountability Finance Nonprofits Education 52

Pam Moore

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Even when you place a simple ad on Facebook, the first question Facebook will ask you is, “who do you want to target?” Many marketers fear taking an audience first marketing approach as they falsely believe it's more costly, complicated and will slow them down. Not Facebook. Not Instagram. Not LinkedIn. Not Twitter.

Marketing 166

Marketing Marketing Foundations Community Development 166

Pam Moore

JANUARY 24, 2018

Did this mentality come from the days of black hat SEO, Facebook algorithm changes, email spam, corrupt agencies and consultants dealing bad advice or something in between? Facebook recently announced some big changes coming to their newsfeed algorithm that impacts brands of all sizes. It's risky business. How did we get here?

Values 167

Values Marketing Marketing Production 167

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Image Credit: Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash We live in an age of rising inequality, climate emergency, authoritarian regimes, and widespread unhappiness. What do these crises have in common? They all stem from our current economic and political order, which is built on insecurity. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

Manufacturing 141

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 141

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

Image Credit: Nsey Benajah on unsplash.com Are you unhappy about the world we live in? Senator Bernie Sanders wants you to know that your feelings are valid. In his new book, It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism , he discusses what is wrong with the US political system and what movements must do to change it.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Governance Civil Society Healthcare 101

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

Engaging the consultant search using a JEDI approach requires clarity of intent, a commitment to being uncomfortable, and a great deal of “cultural humility” (self-reflection, personal critique, and acknowledgment of existing biases), especially in white-lead and white-dominated organizations and institutions. Set a SMART goal.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Culture Nonprofits 111

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? And fundraising. The training. The print collateral.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 132

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