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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

To keep your budget organized and make more accurate projections, we recommend categorizing your revenue by source. This ensures all of your employees receive fair salaries and benefits while preventing overcompensation for leadership (which has damaged some nonprofits’ reputations). Staff compensation policy.

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Leadership Lessons from the Royal Navy

Plexus Consulting

Carter While few environments may be tougher than a warship or submarine, it may be striking to many that much is done using “soft” leadership skills. There’s an old saying that every organization reflects the personality of its leadership, and mood travels fast. By Virgil R. Conversely, empty optimism or false cheer can hurt morale.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

Learn from each other and exchange stories of project successes across all departments – marketing, membership, education and technology. Without a shared vision of success and deeper understanding of how the pieces fit together, organizations can struggle with even the most basic of IT projects—costing time, money, and effort.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace. By investing in Prabhaker’s leadership skills, Haiyya has helped her reach both personal goals and achieve for the organisation. You can download the complete report here. About the Authors.

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Facilitation Friday #9: Build Capacity to Accomplish More

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. A great resource for this work is Norman Kerth's Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference. Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects. Newer Post.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Where TED Talks do so in a video format, ChangeThis does so by releasing attractively-designed manifestos on topics related to leadership and life. July 29, New Orleans, NYIB Leadership Pre-Conference.

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World’s Best Intern: Advice from Nonprofits to Interns

Beth Kanter

She mentioned that there is a lot of research, books, and handbooks. She said that the most important lesson for successful academic internships where the student will work on a class project with a nonprofit is: clarity among students, faculty and organizations about the expectations of projects.

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