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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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For the time being, the bottom line seems to be, there is no substitute for intrinsically human skills. In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. Allow people to build on each other’s suggestions by replacing “no” with “yes, and.”

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. I try to be very clear that no one is exempt from learning and mastering new skills.”

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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Defining and assessing impact is rarely simple but taking a collaborative grantmaking approach can help you identify the real learnings and center the stakeholder to create a solution that actually drives results. What if we used new skills rooted in shared learning to drive results in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the resources?

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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Their resumes will list skills we barely register today. It should be robust enough to attract users and demonstrate the product’s value. The idea is that what you build gets validated by the marketplace and you invest resources where there is evidence of a return. By 2025, 75 percent of the total workforce will be Millennials.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment.

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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

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Subaru’s social post demonstrated a commitment to fighting hunger – and to Feeding America. This allowed the nonprofit to recognize Subaru with its large social audience and demonstrate its role as a key thought leader in the fight against hunger. They demonstrate the importance of teamwork to the nonprofit’s approach.

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Essential Traits of Effective Nonprofit Leaders

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Leading a nonprofit requires a unique set of skills that go beyond traditional management styles. They must embody the values they champion, demonstrating integrity in every action. Transparency and ethical decision-making build trust with donors, volunteers, and the community, fostering a sense of shared purpose.