Associations Now
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Recent research finds that giving days on sites like Facebook are shifting nonprofit fundraising strategies. Similarly, we saw that a 10 percent increase in the number of Facebook posts a nonprofit made in the year before the Omaha Gives day in 2015 was associated with it raising 2.6 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly [paywall].
Jamie Notter
JULY 7, 2015
There’s a lot being written about organizational culture “eating strategy for lunch,” and I certainly understand the sentiment. Most of us have heard about companies who might have chosen a sound strategy, but watched it fall apart because a dysfunctional or even contradictory culture got in the way. image credit.
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Associations Now
JANUARY 31, 2014
AdWeek has a list of brands hoping to score big with the approach—including the City of Omaha, which won accolades of its own after jumping on Peyton Manning’s play-calling a couple of weeks ago. Any strategies you have for getting out of a rut? Tell us about them in the comments.
Idea Architects
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Doing the closing keynote at the HR Reinvention Experiment in Omaha allowed me to fully participate in the conference prior to making my remarks at days end. When we get sloppy with words like strategy, vision, mission, diversity, and many others, we do a real disservice to the deep meaning and full potential they represent.
Associations Now
JANUARY 27, 2014
This sort of brand hijacking doesn’t always work, but organizations can certainly gain a lot of free exposure from this approach if it’s done well—as the Greater Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau did when it riffed on Peyton Manning’s play-calling a couple weeks ago. And they’re starting too late.
Jamie Notter
MAY 10, 2012
Maddie is the one who wrote it up, but it was the result of a weekend retreat last fall of twelve people (including me, Maddie and Charlie; Maddie lists them all in her post) in, of all places, Omaha, Nebraska. I think we pulled together some very important thoughts in a very powerful way. Consulting. Free Resources. Generational Diversity.
Beth Kanter
MAY 21, 2013
The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community! Social Media.
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