Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction.
She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success.
The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership.
As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994.
Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to
http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm
Fostering strong relationships with donors is essential to the survival of a non-profit. For the longest time, non-profits relied on newsletters and other mailing to reach out to their donor base. Rising costs in both printing and mailing forced many non-profits to limit the number of mailings, which non-profits feared would damage their relationship with their constituents. So, they turned to email.
Not for profit organizations typically have great causes, but that doesn't mean anyone in the organization is an email marketing expert. Yet email marketing is becoming more critical for fundraising and generating awareness. The placement of elements on the page, the font choice, even the colors you use all create an impression before the recipient reads a single word of text. So you want to be sure the impression you're creating is a good one.
Investing in technology and selecting new software is a major decision for any organization, as it can significantly impact its day-to-day activities. It can be especially challenging to complete an implementation on time and under budget, while improving operational processes. Non-profits should consider the following best practices to make their future software implementations a success.
Sage North America has taken two big steps into the world of software as a service with an online version of its Sage SalexLogix Cloud CRM deployment and its Sage FundRaising Online. Both moves to the clouds came at this week's Sage Insights reseller conference in Denver with the fundraising package marking a major difference in how Sage gets products to market.
