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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

While there are several types of nonprofit budgets you might create (such as budgets for specific programs or long-term fundraising campaigns), your annual operating budget serves as the master financial plan for your entire organization, making it a critical component of your strategy. Staff compensation policy.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

They are wise stewards of our resources and visionaries who identify strategies for future growth. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. Assigning a mentor is one of the most effective strategies to ensure that new directors get up to speed quickly. a thorn in the side?

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When the Staff Leader Is the Only Staffer

Associations Now

And in a new handbook, “ What the Executive Director of a Very Small Organization Needs to Know ,” [PDF] he offers some practical advice for how to successfully handle the gig. Running an association as the sole staffer is the double black diamond trail of soft-skills leadership. Which isn’t easy.

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Three Reasons Your AMC’s Culture is Important

SBI

Ask the management company owner and other senior leaders involved in the selection process for examples of innovative strategies and processes they have implemented within the actual AMC. Excellent customer service doesn’t come from an employee handbook or a company manual.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.10.17

Reid All About it

If you work in an association, I encourage you to think about content strategy for five minutes because the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Foundation is studying how associations use content strategy. This research will: Document which associations are developing and implementing content strategies.

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Why Creating Space for Creative Time in the Nonprofit Workplace Improves Productivity

Beth Kanter

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Amber and Julie shared a story about the importance of leadership making self-care an cultural norm. Have story? Share it in the comments below.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

In Beyond the First Click: How today’s volunteers build power for movements and NGOs , we report on effective strategies for engaging high-level volunteers. By investing in Prabhaker’s leadership skills, Haiyya has helped her reach both personal goals and achieve for the organisation. About the Authors.