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Why and How Rituals Build Resilience in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth Kanter

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. We each tackled a different aspect of resilience. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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Preparing for Precipitating Events

Idea Architects

Home Depot. USPS. U-Haul. Lowes. AT&T. When infrequent exchanges with these comp an ies become almost daily interactions it c an only mean one thing: you're moving and are involved in a home renovation. It’s amazing how one decision leads to a cascade of consequences and perhaps more importantly to a dramatic change in your routine. When that first domino falls … From the day you put your house on the market, a constant stream of promotional offers from moving companies and other related ent

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Daily Buzz: Act on Member Feedback

Associations Now

You asked for member feedback and received it. Now, what are your organization’s next steps? Also: plan authentic meeting experiences. So, you’ve asked for member feedback, and now the suggestion box is full. What next? “Whether you collect feedback through a survey, in a digital suggestion box, or in person at events and workshops, the opinions your members share with you should never go to waste,” says Audra Hopkins on the Web Scribble blog.

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Nonprofit Tax Compliance: Three Things You Need to Know

Wild Apricot

Learn three things you need to know about nonprofit tax compliance, and how to implement them from a filing expert!

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Six Elements of a Useful Educational Needs Assessment

WBT Systems

Six Elements of a Useful Educational Needs Assessment. Read more about Six Elements of a Useful Educational Needs Assessment.

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Association Leaders - Untitled Article

Association Leaders

Think Your Association Needs New Management? You’re in a leadership position in your association. The Board isn’t completely satisfied with the current management team. But you don’t want to go through the hassle and extra work involved with a management change while you’re leading the organization – save that for the next leader, right? Wrong. Though it certainly would be easier to not have to deal with a management change while you’re volunteering your time to lead the association, putting it

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March udpdate

Wild Apricot

The countdown to PersoniFest 2019 is on! In just under 3 weeks our user conference will kick off in Savannah, Georgia, April 7-10. It’s going to be packed with product training, sessions on marketing and growth , and of course cocktail hours, networking.

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future Proofing Your Career, Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

Times are changing; and so are schools, jobs, and the correlation they have between learning and earning. A college degree used to be the main requirement for an individual to start a successful and cognitively-satisfying career. We pay tuition for higher education because we look at it as an investment in ourselves, assuming it will provide us with higher wages and thought-provoking work.

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Sneak peek: Benchmark report on small-staff associations

YourMembership

Associations with small staffs face big challenges. They must attract and engage new members and plan for their organization’s future. But what are their top priorities? Are they expecting growth? How are they preparing for the future? Community Brands set out to answer these and other questions in a recent survey of small staff (10. The post Sneak peek: Benchmark report on small-staff associations appeared first on YourMembership.

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Find New Non-Dues Revenue Streams for Your Organization with This Free Guide

Struggling to generate revenue beyond membership dues? You're not alone. Our free guide, The Ultimate Guide to Non-Dues Revenue for Associations , offers practical strategies to help your organization boost financial health. Inside, you'll explore creative ways to generate income, including: Educational offerings tailored to your audience Event-based revenue opportunities Job boards that drive engagement and income Corporate sponsorship ideas A checklist to evaluate and strengthen your current a

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Partnership v. Membership: Untangling the Knot

Spark Consulting

I’m excited to announce a new blog series I’ll be writing with Lewis Flax , the founder of Flax Associates , a consulting firm that helps nonprofits support their objectives through establishing mutually beneficial partnerships with corporations. In the coming weeks and months, Lewis and I will be looking at various aspects of association membership, sponsorship, and corporate partnership.

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Google Remarketing: 6 Tips for Advertising Success

Higher Logic

There’s marketing, and there’s Google Ads ‘remarketing’ – a term Google established in regards to their ability to enable websites to show targeted ads to users who have already visited their sites. The term ‘retargeting’ seems to get thrown around in the same bucket since this is the term Facebook uses in regards to their advertising efforts, but we’re talking about Google Ads (formerly known as Google AdWords) today.

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future-Proofing Your Career; Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

Times are changing; and so are schools, jobs, and the correlation they have between learning and earning. A college degree used to be the main requirement for an individual to start a successful and cognitively-satisfying career. We pay tuition for higher education because we look at it as an investment in ourselves, assuming it will provide us with higher wages and thought-provoking work.

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Reinventing Association Governance

Association Success

What is the future of governing? As the sun came up on our last day at the Mayan Dude Ranch, my mind was spinning. Circling around something. Tightening in like our trick roper’s lasso the previous night. No doubt, this all had a little to do with the potent smell of cowboy coffee, horse hair, and last night’s bourbon in my nostrils as we dug into breakfast.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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Engineering for Eighth Graders

Eric Lanke

My association sponsors an outreach and education program for eighth graders. We call it the Fluid Power Action Challenge, and we've positioned it as it part of a series of programs to introduce the technology my association represents to young people and then to provide a pathway of activities through high school and college that brings them into careers in our industry.

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As Mentoring Evolves, Mix the Tech With the Traditional

Associations Now

Young professionals can gain a lot of perspective from workplace mentors—even if they communicate via new tools like apps. But experts say face-to-face interactions still have a major role. As a new generation of professionals enters the workforce, does mentoring need to change? In some ways, it does, according to several experts on leadership and the workforce.

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Boring Flooring or Photo-Flooring?

Event Industry News

Your Guide to ‘Photo-Flooring’ your competition, in the battle for show-visitor attention. Exhibition venues are busy and bustling – there are 100s of exhibitors in one room all trying to attract the attention of every potential client within a one-hundred metre radius. In this visual cacophony, it can become easy for the company with the best product on offer to go unnoticed because of a bland stand.

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Association Staff Stretched to the Limit? How to Get More for Your Association Without Breaking Your Team

Association Adviser

The new norm is to have more work to do than can possibly be done with the current level of resources. What can association professionals do to make the most of the resources they have without leading to staff burnout? Slightly more than half of respondents to the 2018 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey reported feeling understaffed. Organizations can find themselves in this situation because of any number of circumstances.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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6 Steps to Generating a Brilliant Annual Report

GrowthZone

Tweet An Annual Report isn’t just for your association’s Board of Directors.; it’s a valuable tool you can use to highlight your association’s successes and leverage to develop partnerships with sponsors. Here are six steps for writing an effective association annual report: Define the Audience. As you create your annual report, keep in mind who will be reading the report: your board – make them feel appreciated; your members – show them the importance of belonging; prospective members – show th

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Survey: A Little Bit of Paid Search Goes a Long Way for SEO

Associations Now

A recent survey finds that paid search can often improve your search engine optimization strategy by helping your organization target its attack. If you’re looking to make a big impact with your search engine optimization (SEO) strategy in 2019, don’t simply focus on the optimization that you can get for free. Instead, consider trying your hand at paid search.

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Exciting times ahead at the Protec Group: More successes. More investments. More opportunities.

Event Industry News

The Protec group ramped up its expansion in early 2018 and has certainly put its foot on the throttle since. Its growth into Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East region has been especially successful. Its European branch, based in the UK, has been impressing with award wins and shortlistings announcing its arrival as a major player capable of competing for large scale events and shaking up the industry.

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Weighing the Return On Not Investing

Association Success

How can you address the return on not investing on technological growth? A while ago, while keynoting a conference on using data and new technology, and there was one particular person in the audience who was full of questions. This person was asking about the Return on Investment (ROI) on this, that, and the other. At a certain point, I got off the stage, walked up to this attendee, and asked them what inaction will result in, what is the return on not investing?

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2025 Association Survey Results Report

GrowthZone’s 11th annual survey highlights trends, challenges, and strategies shaping the membership industry through insights from U.S. and Canadian association professionals. Get your copy of the 2025 Association Survey Results Report to see how your organization measures up: The biggest challenges associations are facing Membership retention trends and non-renewal insights Strategies for automatic renewals and reinstatements Shifts in member engagement tactics Why members are joining (and sta

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Website Governance for Associations

GrowthZone

Tweet You never get a second chance to make a first impression. And often, the first impression of your association happens when a prospective member visits your website. Precisely why you need to know about website governance. So, what is it? Website governance is a system for managing your online presence in an orderly way. From an association’s perspective, website governance lays the necessary foundation for your digital presence.

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Daily Buzz: Maximize Your Content Marketing Strategy

Associations Now

Content is just content unless it’s working to achieve a higher goal. Also: why a meeting’s change initiative often fails. In order for your organization’s content marketing strategy to be effective, it needs to be working toward a larger goal, whether that’s growing awareness or building up your email list. Another hard truth of content marketing: It’s all about messaging.

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ETL Replay: Apps that add value without losing the human touch

Event Industry News

Delivering a speech about utilising free apps to help manage and organise different events, the CEO and founder of Shocklogic, John Martinez, addressed the audience of Event Tech Live 2018. Shocklogic aims to make event-management easier and simpler: it offers online event-management solutions as well as the expertise of event specialists and technical experts.

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5 Truths about Content Marketing Campaigns that Nonprofits Shouldn’t Ignore

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

As I watch nonprofits embracing content marketing as a strategy, I see a few places where they just aren’t quite getting it right. I think that’s because they are ignoring five truths about successful content marketing. TRUTH 1: Good content marketing is more about the objective than the content itself. Content is just content. What makes something content marketing is your ability to use content to achieve a marketing objective.

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Turn Messy Data into a Strategic Asset with This Essential Guide

Is messy, outdated, or duplicate data making it harder to track engagement, revenue, and performance? Poor data quality can slow your organization down and prevent you from making informed decisions. With The Dirty Data Guide , you'll discover: Practical steps to clean your data and maintain accuracy over time. A checklist to help your team implement data hygiene best practices.

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Free Membership Can Be Risky

Smooth The Path

I have mixed feelings about associations giving things away for free. On the one hand, a free membership category is the most frictionless way to prompt participation from people in your target group. On the other hand, what we get for free, we tend not to value. Should associations be in the business of offering a free membership? Maybe. The answer will vary from association to association.

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#ASAEIdeas19: Go Big by Going Small

Associations Now

Move over, BHAG. According to several speakers on day two of the ASAE Great Ideas Conference, sometimes the best path to innovation is to set aside the big, hairy, audacious goal and go small instead. Your next big idea may be a small one. Or you may be able to make big progress with a few small steps. Adopting that mindset can make innovation a lot less daunting, according to speakers at ASAE’s Great Ideas Conference on Monday.

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Guest Blog: How can venues cater for an increase in special dietary requirements?

Event Industry News

By Alison Wallington, Event Centre Manager, Kent Event Centre. From gluten free to vegan, no nuts to vegetarian, we have seen a steep rise in special dietary requirements at Kent Event Centre. Is it because these diets have become trendy? Are people just much more aware and conscious of what they are eating? Or are there generally more people now than ever before with a food allergy?

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