Predictions for 2021 for Associations, Nonprofits and Events
Remember making predictions for 2020? If you’re like me, your crystal ball was definitely wrong. After the year we’ve had, it almost seems silly to make predictions for 2021. But we’re going to do it anyway… After a stressful year, our team is loo...
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Technology for Nonprofits & Associations: 5 Steps to Make the Buying Process Less Painful and More Fun
Think about the last time that you purchased a new system or tool for your organization. Was the process overwhelming and a little stressful? For many organizations, the answer is yes. A 2019 Global NGO Technology Report found that 48% of nonprofi...
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Mobilize Your Movement: 5 Tactics to Unite People and Inspire Action for Your Cause
These last few months have been a lot, haven’t they? We’ve seen COVID-19 cases spike in areas that previously had few outbreaks, cities and states have issued new lockdown orders, parents and teachers are stressed about school reopening plans, and...
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Planet Leadership: the Podcast for Associations, Nonprofits & Entrepreneurs
One of the great things about my role at Personify is that I get to regularly connect with entrepreneurs, CEOs, executive directors and leaders of associations and nonprofits across the country to learn about their leadership journey. These are pe...
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Meet our Latest Game Changer: the Canadian Cancer Society
The goal of our community is to make sure that “no post goes unanswered.” Earlier this year, my colleagues and I had a chance to sit down with Lacey Horta, a Senior Support Specialist at the Canadian Cancer Society, and this statement about how th...
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4 Tips to Make the Most of Board Meetings
American humorist Dave Barry once observed, “If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be [board] meetings.” Meetings aren’t a four-letter word,...
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Radical Acts: Rituals and Building Trust in Community
For many organizations, launching a community comes with haunting worries: Will anyone log in, let alone participate? Will our staff need to prompt every discussion? Will our members, of their own volition, really connect with each other? In an in...
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3 Lessons for Nonprofits from the Fall of a Retail Giant: Seeing the Softer Side of Sears
Recent days have seen Sears in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. While the company has been in financial straits for some time, the pressure has been mounting and today comes reports that the company may avoid bankruptcy thanks to a last-mi...
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Make a New Year’s Resolution to Clean Up Your Data
Resolutions. We love them, we hate them, but we keep making them. In new research from YouGov, about one quarter (26%) of people report having New Year’s Resolutions for 2019. As for the specific resolutions people are making, the most popular one...
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