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Leading Effective Meetings: 5 Tips to Conduct More Productive Meetings

NonProfit Leadership Center

With a reported 24 million hours wasted each year due to unproductive meetings, how do you conduct more productive meetings at your nonprofit that matter to your colleagues and motivate your team members? Share any ground rules that are essential for a positive and productive time together. Arrive first as the facilitator.

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Best Practices When Running a Product Fundraiser

Get Fully Funded

It would be nice if a product fundraiser miraculously raised money on its own, right? You must be in the driver’s seat and have a solid grasp of best practices when running a fundraiser, including a product fundraiser. As a leader, you want a smooth, easy to run, well-supported product fundraiser with help just a phone call away.

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Hosting Engaging Virtual Events: How to Boost Participation

Top Nonprofits

In this short guide, we’ll walk you through a few strategies that will help you boost participation at your next virtual event, and make it more memorable: Invest in the right tools for virtual events. Working with a well-connected event production company like CharityBids can help you get access to incredible talent.

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How to Keep Your Team Motivated Through 2020

NonProfit Hub

But one of the most prevalent has been staying motivated at work. When you’re home, working in your pajamas and distractions just too close for you to ignore them, you have to think of new ways to be productive. In order to make your team motivated and productive, accommodate your plans to fit how they work best.

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5 Steps to Hosting a Fundraiser for Animal-Related Causes

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Animal yoga: Host an animal-themed yoga fundraiser in a local park where participants can exercise with animals eligible for adoption. Pet product sales: Create and sell pet products such as branded T-shirts, mugs, or toys, with the proceeds going to support your animal-related cause. Promote your fundraiser.

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Centering the user perspective

Candid

Input from current and potential users of Candid’s tools is crucial to building products for a more efficient and effective social sector. The goal is to come as close as possible to co-creating products with the people who do or could use them, increasing our likelihood of success in creating built-in value and usability.

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5 Simple Ways to Motivate Your Fundraising Team

Fundraiser Ideas

When I think about how I came up with the skills to motivate my fundraising team, I remember a team I was on years ago. I never felt so inspired and motivated to sell as I did in that fundraising team. Looking back now, there were five reasons why that particular fundraising team motived me more than any others did.