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Service Mapping: A Tool to Elevate the Client Experience
By Teri Yanovitch, T.A.Yanovitch, Inc. June 15, 2021 Are you in search of a simple way to differentiate your nonprofit from others? At the same time, do you want to improve the experience that your clients have with your organization? Most organizations look...
Navigating the Labyrinth: Making Social Media Manageable for Nonprofits
For nonprofits and many small businesses, social media can seem like a vast maze. If you take one wrong turn, you could be lost forever. It’s overwhelming, unknown territory that seems nearly impossible to navigate some days — complete with trolls just waiting for you...
Guide to Better Budgeting for Nonprofits
Most nonprofits have a typical annual cycle. It goes something like this: Three months before the end of the fiscal year, the management staff pulls together a budget for the next year. They look at what funds they know will come in, how much they think they can...
Four Ways Leaders Can Cultivate Culture in a Nonprofit Organization
By Teri Yanovitch When the culture within an organization has a strong foundation, it can survive the chaos and tumult that surrounding external factors may be inflicting. This includes non-profit organizations especially. Many times non-profit organizations...
How to Reinforce your Service Culture with Employees Working Remotely
By Teri Yanovitch September 4, 2020 As a result of COVID-19, many employees have been working remotely. Not having employees physically present in a location makes communication of an organization’s Service Excellence culture more difficult. However, just as...
Nonprofit Development Assessment Ultimate Guide 2020
JUL 16, 2020 Nonprofits that are serious about measuring their progress and evaluating their organization's history of outcomes typically engage in some version of a development assessment. Unfortunately, the first step is usually a rabbit hole of search results...
10 Tips to Strengthen Your Fundraising in Challenging Times
JUN 01, 2020 Whether your nonprofit is experiencing fundraising challenges related to COVID-19, an economic recession, or weathering some other storm, it’s more important than ever for your donors to understand how the mission and work of your nonprofit are...
Looking for Government Funding? Here’s How to Find Your ‘fit’
FEB 05, 2020 Government agencies – at every level – must manage dozens of jobs and tasks every year with no way to get them done all on their own. They end up seeking help outside their organizations. That’s where funding for your non-profit agency can come in....
Nonprofit Succession Planning Best Practices
FEB 05, 2020 Only about 27% of surveyed nonprofits reported that they had a written succession plan in place, according to BoardSource. Leadership and staff transitions in any organization are inevitable and many times can come unexpectedly. What can you be doing to...
10 Ways to Evaluate your Nonprofit Staff and Resources
FEB 04, 2020 Imagine the day…you are just about to make the announcement with your board chair that your organization will launch a major gifts campaign as part of its 25th anniversary year celebrations! You have an ambitious goal and many of your large gift donors...