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Were You Dinged on Your CRA Rating for Community Development? Learn How to Implement This Vital Part of Your CRA Program. As you outline your institution’s spring calendar and priorities, you should include community development activities. These essential components of...

Master the Language of Financial Institution Management: Learn How to Identify and Maximize Strengths. Financial institution management relies heavily on a specialized language of acronyms and terminology. You must master the concepts and terms to drive your organization to success...

How Do You Let People Know About Your Ransomware Attack? Protect Your Institution’s Reputation During a Breach. Ransomware strikes organizations of all types daily. Recent attacks have paralyzed Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and KIA Motors. Cyberattackers are actively looking for...

Discover Tips to Use Excel Faster. Master Timesaving Shortcuts. The business world runs on Excel. It is used for list management, powerful calculations, beautiful charts, and dashboards. If Excel is an integral part of your day, you can save enormous...

Help Teachers Slip Into Summer With Smiles. Offer Support to Overcome More Uncertainty Ahead. Teachers cannot wait for the summer break but despite the relief time off will bring any educators experience anxiety, uncertain how the next school year will...

How to Get Your Next Fundraising Star - Bolster Your Nonprofit’s Team by Offering What Employees Want. The Great Resignation is underway. It has been a long time coming, due to: Toxic workplace cultures Systemic overwork and burnout A failure...

Are Your Board Members Fundraising? Learn 5 Ways to Get Them Immediately Involved Successful nonprofits rely on their board members to contribute to the fundraising effort, even more critical than their fiduciary responsibility in driving and sustaining growth. You can...

Expanding Your Reach Is Only 15 Minutes Away: Learn Easy Strategies to Reach More Engaged Users Social media use has expanded dramatically during the pandemic and remains very high. Online platforms are particularly effective for nonprofits that have community support,...

What Everyone Is Looking for on Your Website: Crucial Updates to Make to Increase Reach, Donations, and Results Data shows that more and more funders, donors, clients, media, stakeholders, and community members are finding out about your organization online.  Your...

Get Ready Now for Summer Grant Opportunities. Learn How Prepare to Win Lucrative Funding. Before the deluge of summer grant opportunities hits, you need to ensure that your nonprofit is prepared. Even if you have a fantastic program idea deserving...

The Board Leadership You Need Right Now: Learn How to Fill Critical Positions With the Ideal People Board officers are vital to a nonprofit's success in the rebuilding months to come. These leaders can help weather transitions, navigate change, and...

Use Coaching to Drive Performance. Get Better Results From Your Team. Transitioning from old-fashioned management to modern coaching is essential in an environment of rapid change.  Effective coaching methods can make an enormous difference in team productivity and organizational capacity....

Donations Are Hiding in Your CRM. Unlock the Data to Improve Fundraising Results Your CRM: Keeps all the information about your funders in a central place Identifies untapped opportunities Provides insights into fundraising successes you can emulate You need to...

Do the Board Members and Staff at Your Organization Work Well Together? Learn How to Define Who Does What In the most effective nonprofits, the board and the staff complement and support each other. They apply different perspectives and actions...

Do You Know How to Make Change at Your Organization? Build Capacity From the Inside Out Your team members possess a distinct combination of talents, skills, and personality traits that allow them to contribute to productivity and drive innovation. It...

Connect and Support Your Team. Discover Staff Meeting Engagement and Productivity Techniques. Your staff members are on the front line every day, accomplishing your organization’s mission. Nonprofit employees are too often overworked and underpaid. They are often burned out. The...

Transform Stalwart Supporters Into Board Leaders: Engage Directors and Eliminate Tension Strong board development is the solution to all board struggle challenges. Boards are made up of well-meaning, passionate volunteers who unfortunately aren’t always clear on their roles or their...

Reinvigorate Your Board in Time for Fundraising Season: Discover 7 Simple Strategies to Stop Struggling You need engaged board members now more than ever. It’s time for the busy fundraising season, and you are counting on them to cultivate donors,...

Optimize Collaboration Between Your Board and Staff: Learn How to Foster an Effective Partnership An effective partnership between board and staff leaders is a tremendous asset. It is often the key to flexible and resilient organizational leadership – the kind...

How Effective Is Your Board? Learn How to Assess and Improve Board Performance A strong, vibrant board of directors is a clear indicator of a healthy organization. Yet even the best organizations need ongoing attention and check-ups to ensure that...

Does Your Organization Have a Governance Committee? Change Your Approach to Create an Engaged Board. Nonprofits often have nominations committees responsible for putting forward nominees for board membership and officer positions. After the rush to find and enlist suitable candidates,...

See How Easily You Can Get Donors’ Attention. Discover 10 Quick and Easy Ways to Attract Donors and Funds The number of nonprofits in the U.S. is increasing every year, now topping 1.5 million. When you’re a nonprofit leader, the...

No, Thanks. Learn When It is Necessary to Decline Gifts. There are circumstances under which your organization should decline a gift from a donor. Effective gift acceptance policies provide necessary guardrails for nonprofit boards and staff members. You need to...

Do Your Programs Fill Real Needs? Learn How to Measure Program Need. Effective program design and execution starts with verifying the need. Needs assessments are essential tools that aid organizations in ensuring the services they offer are necessary, welcome, and...