Nonprofit organizations are a symbol of what is great about America. Nonprofit organizations enable people from all walks of life to come and help each other realize their dreams and hopes for the future. High-impact nonprofits help us realize some of the most ambitious projects and causes that we all want to support. Nonprofit organizations help build stronger communities by helping people to be just and prosperous. And they have learned that they are important by working with others to ensure that they continue to support the causes that they serve. Listed below are the characteristics of high-impact nonprofits that sustain momentum in the community:

  1. High-impact nonprofits are adept at both serving others and advocating on their own behalf. They know that people genuinely want to help them and that when they become good at both, it will help them to become better leaders. They are excellent at serving others and advocacy. High-impact nonprofits actively work to enhance their social impact, because they know their work will pay off for them. When nonprofits influence how the community sees an issue, their ability to make a sustainable change.
  2. High-impact nonprofits know how to leverage the power of markets to gain support. They understand how to sell products to people who are interested in buying their services. If a nonprofit organization only relies on donations, it can limit the ability to gain revenue in other areas. Nonprofit organizations can harness the power of the marketplace by forming partnerships with major companies to help them gain more funding or to recruit advisers. These high-impact nonprofits establish partnerships with big corporations that allow them to receive funding, support from others, and to sell products and services that corporations wish to sell.
  3. High-impact nonprofits create vibrant supporters who advocate and help them to reach their goals. Volunteers, fundraisers, and adviser partners are incredibly important to high-impact nonprofits because they are advocates to the greater community of the impact they make. So as to keep supporters motivated, they provide supportive experiences to encourage people to support their causes. When people have meaningful experiences, they become evangelists for the cause. High-touch nonprofits build strong communities to help them achieve their goals. Ultimately, what all supporters do for nonprofits is to help people achieve their goals.
  4. High-impact nonprofits nourish nonprofit networked services. Nonprofits that collaborate with others in their sector rather than competing them expand and sustain their impact. High-level organizations do more to enable others to be successful than they do to themselves. They choose to build networks of like-minded organizations and spend a tremendous amount of money and effort to advance the causes they serve. It is in nonprofits ‘best interests to help others by partnering with others who have similar goals.
  5. High-impact nonprofits are extremely adaptable; they change tactics if necessary to succeed. They continually come up with new ideas to help them succeed. They also take risks, make mistakes and learn from them. High-impact nonprofits are agile and have developed systems that allow them to evaluate and continually improve their performance. These nonprofits are highly observant and know when it is important to pay attention to other organizations and replicate what they do or use it to spark ingenuity in their sector.  Adaptability of high-impact nonprofits has enabled each of these organizations to continue to thrive and achieve results.
  6. High-impact nonprofits realize the importance of highly capable and collaborative leaders. These nonprofits share the leadership responsibilities among one another and empower those who work in the organization to thrive. Highly effective nonprofit leaders maintain a team that includes a leader who is loyal and works well for many years. They also create and manage highly effective boards.

No matter the size of an organization, these practices are helpful for creating and sustaining impact, and MyDonors has the tools to help your nonprofit maximize its work. MyDonors is part of MyCommunity, which exists to build relationships and tools that equip organizations so that they can maximize their impact. Our suite of tools is designed to help organizations of all sizes focus on their mission without worrying about the logistics. We understand the importance of building strong relationships, so we provide the necessary tools to maximize impact and make a difference like our easy-to-use platforms MyDonors and MyVolunteers. Likewise, MyNonprofitCoach equips nonprofits with the training they need to be successful. Schedule a demo for any of our solutions here.

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Source(s): https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/nonprofit-impact-communities
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/creating_high_impact_nonprofits
https://vialogue.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/good-to-great-and-the-social-sectors-notes-review/
https://gracelead.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/good-to-great-social-sectors-summary.pdf