The November question for the Giving Carnival is: “What business practices should nonprofits adopt to maximize their resources?”
My first answer dealt with having our financial house in order. But there’s another wonderful business practice I think nonprofits could adopt to their benefit: investing in training.
I’d recommend nonprofit professionals and their employers to invest in:
- reading books, including those by authors like Seth Godin or me
or
- attending online seminars like those offered by CharityUniversity or
- keeping up with blogs like mine or the many other wonderful nonprofit and marketing blogs out there or (GoogleReader and Bloglines are two helpful tools for this)
- going to live events like regional or national conferences.
We have to be life-long learners. Even if you pick up only one thing each time you invest in learning, the investment pays off. And reading on a wide variety of topics will help us relate to people that may become donors to our cause.
Each of these activities will certainly help your organization maximize your resources!
Stumble it!
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