Creating the Right Team to Maximize Organizational Performance
Using the work of Jim Collins in his book Good to Great, this week's #FundraisingFriday talks about how to develop your team to maximize your organization's effectiveness today and for years to come.
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Your Guide to Major Gift Fundraising
This class brings together the best of our #FundraisingFriday videos and Nonprofit Tips and Tidbit blogs with downloadable resources – many of them available only through this class – in one easy to follow format to which you can refer again and again.
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While a very serious subject with very real consequences for the nonprofit sector, burnout deserves a laugh before it earns a resignation letter. These 8 tips mix real self-preservation with the kind of dark humor that gets a burned-out staff member through their Tuesday.
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As described in our last post, a strong board-led evaluation process transforms how a board and its executive director work together. It ensures alignment, builds trust, and keeps the organization moving forward with clarity and purpose. While each nonprofit may tailor its process, the best evaluations share the following 7 steps that combine structure with respect.
A 30-45 second explanation of your organization and why it's important, an elevator pitch provides an important tool for educating the public about your organization. When created with your leadership team, board and staff, it also empowers them to both better understand your organization and to share a consistent message with their friends and network.
Effective leadership drives mission success. When the executive director leads with clarity, integrity, and purpose, the organization thrives. Like every employee, even the most talented leader needs regular and structured feedback, direction, and accountability to continue to grow personally and professionally and strategically move the organization forward. For a nonprofit, the board alone carries that responsibility. These five reasons explain how board-led evaluations of your chief executive will reap long-term benefits for your organization.
One strategic plan that I recommend all organizations have is a strategic fund development plan. It allows you to chart out your long-term and short-term goals, find the gaps in achieving that goal, and develop specific steps to get there.
Organizations that have a good strategic plan will more likely achieve their goals, their goals will more likely move them toward their vision of success, and they will have more engaged board members and staff. Learn why you need a strategic plan and how a good planning process can get you there.
Fund development work relies on relationships. People give to people. Understand the importance of building relationships and leveraging your board and volunteers to expand your circle of relationships to expand your fundraising success.
A growing share of nonprofit professionals reports real concerns about burnout. Contrary to popular belief, burnout does not stem solely from long hours or a difficult work environment. This blog post defines the causes of burnout and offers 6 habits to help you build what you need to combat it: fortitude.