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Howard Adam Levy

Branding and fundraising success for nonprofits

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Adapter or Innovator Mindset? Nonprofits might be more inclined to adapt and make incremental changes, but recognizing whether your team is more adapter or innovator-minded can improve decision-making and consensus-building. Watch the video to learn more. #NonprofitStrategy #InnovationVsTradition #OrganizationalCulture

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There's a lot of organizations are really interested in maintaining their history. Hopefully is a good founding story, you know that you want to hold on to. But I want to tell you something that I think is kind of interesting. It's in some way a framework for seeing the world. It's kind of like personality types for people and for organizations and nonprofits may see themselves in this. I think it's called the AI Index. That could be mistaken about that. But on one side, our adapters and one side are innovators. It's not good or bad. It's just a framework for seeing the world. On the adapter side is if it's not broke. Don't fix it, kind of maintain the status quo and people in this particular sectors are kind of acclimated toward that, for example, lawyers, because you look to the precedent and the law and we find that a lot of nonprofits are oriented toward that way, the maintaining status quo, making incremental improvements. And the other side is the innovators and you think of tech companies like disruption. Let's throw out the system, right let's break things, you know, so I think when you know nonprofits look at how they are, how do you characterize your organization and. How do you characterize the people who are making the decisions? You know, how do they see the world? So when you're talking about brand strategy or redevelopment, and we find a lot of them are or the adapter mindset of life to make incremental changes. And I don't think we realize that for a long time. And it shed light on ways of interacting with the clients. And I think for the clients, it's like a useful tool to understand where they are in terms of how they make decisions and how they get consensus. Because if you have a leader that says, let's charge ahead, let's throw out the old name in the history that we're talking about. Now we need to reach donors for tomorrow and everyone else is kind of in the adapter mode or the cultural disposition of the organization is there. They're going to have a hard time bringing everyone along. And conversely, someone who doesn't have authority, who's trying to make the change, but the whole organization is kind of in this adapter mode, then they're not going to have a lot of progress, you know, there. So you have to understand where the organization is and who the people are in it and what system so that you could actually get everyone on board at the same time.

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