Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness. Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft, the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. Other areas include: … [Read more...]
Listen Up: A New, National RFP Offers Nonprofits and Funders Tools to Survey Clients
Note from Beth: Melinda T. Tuan, Managing Director, Fund for Shared Insight shares details about an incredible funding opportunity for nonprofits. Does your organization want to make meeting the needs of the people it serves a top priority? Are you and your colleagues eager to improve and expand your capacity to listen to the people you seek to help, and to make the right changes in response? Are you interested in partnering with national funders supporting pioneering work in bringing the rich … [Read more...]
Annual M&R Benchmarks Study Released
One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization's past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy. For the past 11 years, this study has gathered comparative metrics from nonprofits on email, social media, social advertising, fundraising, and web … [Read more...]
How To Facilitate Leadership Development In Your Nonprofit As Part of Doing the Work
One of the biggest challenges that many nonprofits face is the finding time and resources for professional development activities. People are so busy doing the work that they don't have time to go off-site to take a class or sign up for an online course. And, when nonprofits budgets are tight, professional development often gets slashed. When there is time for an investment in professional development for younger leaders, there is the added challenge of reaching "distracted learners." While … [Read more...]
How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone
I have been reading Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter, a professor of marketing at NYU. The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. He describes the “Ludic Loop,” a cycle of repeating the same activity because every so often you get a reward. The term was coined by Natasha Schull, also on the faculty at NYU and an expert in addiction. Slot machines … [Read more...]
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