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Human-Centered Design for Nonprofits: 5 Steps to Follow

Building With, Not For, Your Communities At Timshel, we know that to design great products, we have to understand what our stakeholders value. This is true whether we’re designing an engagement platform to help nonprofits and advocacy groups connect with their supporters, or a tool that helps rural health workers with little to no experience with technology collect and disseminate patient information. So how do we understand what our stakeholders [...]

Where’s Your Succession Plan?

Throughout the country, leaders work tirelessly for their nonprofits, often above and beyond the call of duty. Often nonprofit directors and their organizations are so entwined with each other that a clearly defined succession plan is never a focus. This can be especially true in cases where the director is also the founder, since it is difficult to think of one without the other. Eventually, despite their love for [...]

Forget Leadership Programs – Where’s the Leadership?

I am staggered by the number of universities, associations and institutes that claim to teach “leadership.” And I am weary of the statistics about the male/female leadership gap, both in the nonprofit sector and in the wider world of business and politics. But I am even more amazed at the way the “leadership industry” targets its wares by gender. Don’t take my word for it – go to Google and [...]

8 Reasons Why a Professional Recruiter is Worth the Cost

The cost of hiring and firing any employee is astronomical when counting the expense of time spent, and the psychology of a failed choice. Between the cost of onboarding, training, coaching, staff time, wasted salary, and administrative costs, HR professionals project that an organization can easily spend thousands of dollars on a hire that has gone wrong. Most so called bad hires should not have happened in the first place. [...]

5 Things Nonprofits Should Know About Credit

Any nonprofit organization is familiar with the process of accepting donations. However, you may not be familiar with the options for accepting donations via credit card. It is important to learn about your credit card options and choose one that is a good fit for your particular organization. In this day and age, many people prefer to use their credit cards for the majority of their financial transactions. Accepting credit [...]

How to Increase Funding Using Cross-Sector Partnerships

Wouldn’t it be pretty phenomenal if your nonprofit could not only increase its funding, but at the same time attract new volunteers and business partners, get more in-kind donations, earned income opportunities, better media coverage, and free legal or creative services? Amazingly, these are only some of the 31 benefits we have found that your nonprofit can receive when you partner with a for-profit in a cross-sector partnership. Better yet, these [...]

Joining a Fundraising App? 9 Considerations

This post was originally published on our partner site, Third Sector Today Think about these 9 things before joining a fundraising app. There’s no denying the mobile transformation of every sector of the nonprofit space. Your supporters have mobile phones and if you ask them to give through their phone 62% of millennials say they will--and yet 47% say the reason they haven’t given is they haven’t been asked. So [...]

5 Tips for More Productive Meetings

We’ve all sat in those meetings. You know, the ones that take place at the last minute and go on for hours without an end in sight, and without food in sight. However, we still need meetings. Right? RIGHT? Forbes notes that even before you hit the send button calling for a meeting and putting a damper on staff members’ day, you must establish why you need a [...]

5 Employee Retention Tips to Avoid a Breakup

“It’s Not You, It’s Me” Watching a great employee walk out the door on to another job is hard. Employee turnover rates seem a consistent trend among both nonprofit and business sectors as technology and culture rapidly evolve. What to do? Keep that spark alive between your nonprofit and its employees. When Dan Schwabel of Forbes.com shared The Top 10 Workplace Trends for 2014, “continuous job search” was on the [...]

Creative Options for Website and App Development Nonprofits Can Afford

My day job as an independent project manager and consultant is morphing into a role with one of the companies I've worked with closely. Several business partners of mine just merged their branding and user experience (UX) agency (Why.) with a large European development group (Masters of Code) to form User10. This means that their capabilities just expanded, but also that we can get more flexible with pricing. Obviously, for [...]

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