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How can nonprofits benefit from ERP?

How can your organization benefit from ERP?

Wait, what is ERP? ERP is enterprise resource planning. It’s a management software that allows small, medium or large enterprises to manage and automate back office functions. What does that have to do with me? Well, increasing operational efficiency and better managing all your information is essential. But few nonprofits have the resources to invest […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: nonprofit management, Nonprofit organization Leave a Comment

Are you faking it?

You're good enough!

Every day I’m fortunate to interact with talented people from all over the world. (Thank you, interwebz). One common thread too many of us share: a sense that perhaps we’re not quite good enough. Self-deprecation can oil social connections – but it also costs each of us something important. I’m shocked all over again when […]

Filed Under: Blog, Caring for yourself, Fundraising Tagged With: confidence, imposter syndrome, learning, Nonprofit organization 7 Comments

Are you afraid of commitment?

Are you afraid of commitment?

Or should I say, is your organization afraid? I’ve been fundraising for a long time. And commitment has always been a struggle. Getting the organization to spend time, focus, or money to grow or maintain fundraising is hard. At one time or another I’ve been told: There’s no money for fundraising. (To hire staff, to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: commitment, Fundraising, nonprofit management, Nonprofit organization 2 Comments

Trust

trust

Over the past few days, I’ve been thinking about trust. This was spurred in part by a couple of pieces of mail I received. One looked like business mail from our garbage collectors. I opened it, because you can never tell anymore what might be a bill and what might be another sales pitch. It […]

Filed Under: Annual Giving, Blog, Donor communications Tagged With: appeal writing, donor appeals, donor retention, mail appeal, Nonprofit organization, trust 6 Comments

The overhead myth and you

Ah, the pernicious overhead myth. Dan Pallotta’s TEDtalk continues to spur conversation and (even some action) about the way we evaluate effectiveness. Funders have for too long depended on simplistic measurements, largely how much money is spent on administrative costs, or overhead. This provides a measurement of sorts, and one that’s easy to arrive at. The […]

Filed Under: Blog, Planning Tagged With: administrative costs, Fundraising, Nonprofit organization, overhead myth, strategic planning 7 Comments

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