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Funding Your Mission: 4 Nonprofit Financial Management Tips

NXUnite

The three types of functional expenses are: Program costs, which are directly related to furthering your mission, meaning they’re different for every organization. For example, an animal shelter would include spending on pet food, toys, and medical supplies under their program costs.

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Should you continue to host hybrid or virtual events in a post-pandemic world?

Association Analytics

But don’t forget there could be value in creating goodwill and thought leadership with free services that you can’t always measure. Removing outliers is referred to as trimming. Don’t forget to look at costs. Consider both hard and hidden costs when evaluating your events. Consider the increased workload.

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How to Convince Leadership That a Flexible Work Model Is Best

Achurch

How can you convince your volunteer and/or staff leadership that a flexible work model is the best choice for your association? You can reference the following information to help make your case to the board. Lower operational costs. Most associations are now adopting a hybrid or remote work model. Greater productivity.

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Association Brain Food: 8.25.23

Reid All About it

He’s referring to “spellbooks” full of generative AI prompts that encode human expertise and unlock AI’s positive potential. Leadership & Learning: The Best Leaders Ask the Best Questions: Because Who Needs All the Answers Anyway? What cultural leadership characteristics keep an organization from reaching its potential?

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7 Situations Where Customer Communities Improve Customer Experience

Higher Logic

Improve (decrease) support costs by 32.9% When You Need a Good Customer Reference. Maintaining strong customer references for your sales team is a big undertaking — you have to keep customers happy, keep them educated on your product, and stay current with their success as well as how they are using your solution. Did you know?

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How to make your association dashboards work for you

Association Success

I may be dating myself with this reference, but much like Johnny 5, I need input! Here are some great dashboard thought starters, based on leadership roles: . How much revenue is coming in compared to costs,” will be the focus of a CFO dashboard, says Zullo. Are there opportunities to improve costs?” .

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How to Make Analytics a Priority – Finally!

Association Analytics

Evaluate Your Opportunity Costs. Cost – be sure to include all hard costs, as well as opportunity costs. Communicate to leadership and staff in their language. Use case studies & references – use 3rd party examples and case studies as examples of success. Leverage the community. Take action!

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