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Social Media Savvy? How and Why To Make Your Digital Presence A Career Booster

Fundraising Leadership

Using social media to promote your work can be positive, but you need to be careful. due to its Chinese ownership and use of data from its 170 million users, it is prime time to take a look at your own social media use. Contentious political and cultural issues are off limits from public sharing. Some posts can get you fired.

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

Get Fully Funded

Plus, it’s responsible for ensuring that you meet goals and keep promises to the public, donors, and beneficiaries. They don’t understand their fiscal or legal responsibility nor their ethical responsibility. Later, the Board may need to recruit and hire an Executive Director and decide on a pay scale.

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Board Diversity: Recruit Talent, Not Tokens

NonProfit Hub

In fact, recruiting staff and board members solely to meet diversity quotas should never be a viable option. Recruit talent, not tokens, and you’ll create a strong board that will strengthen your organization for your community. I understand that recruitment is a year-long, ongoing process.

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Building a Strong Nonprofit Board of Directors: 14 Key Strategies

Nonprofit Megaphone

Nonprofit organizations, with their focus on social causes and community welfare, play a crucial role in shaping society. These strategies cover a wide range of topics, including board recruitment, board development, board diversity, and board governance.

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What Is Needed Now

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits play a critical role in organizing communities and advocating for better policies to face these crises, and we must now assess what we are looking for in our colleagues and ourselves. The unique recruitment opportunity lies in the ability of the organization to articulate those values aloud, even up front in a job announcement.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

For their part, the occupants of the national office were content with this relationship: the dues allowed the national headquarters to engage in an advocacy strategy reliant upon public relations and court battles to eventually change the legal status of Black Americans. She started recruiting in pool halls and bars. We disagree.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

The idea is this: Suppose we ask a person to do some pro-social act. People are less likely to act pro-socially than to predict they will act pro-socially. Asking for the prediction first increases pro-social behavior. The question begins with a “social norm” statement. 33] This uses social-emotional language.