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Think Beyond Your Nonprofit’s Niche: Expanding Impact Through Collaboration

NonProfit PRO

When people ask me about the benefits of collaboration, my first instinct is to say it’s a no-brainer. In my experience, thoughtful collaboration with nonprofits, clinicians, research partners, government agencies, and even companies in the private sector only leads to good things.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. My experience with Candid reinforced the notion that the best work gets done when the board and staff collaborate closely.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Sue’s deep experience with boards and leadership makes her the perfect resource for a conversation about coaching new and more seasoned directors. She served as executive director for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) for 13 years and has almost 30 years of experience in the association industry.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. Here’s an example from my experience. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

When you don’t know what’s going on with your members, what is important to them, what events they attend or products they buy or where they’re located, you’re losing out on key opportunities to connect and ultimately make your members’ experience a great one. number of webinar registrants), the customer experience (ex.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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Here’s an illustration of this idea from my experience. In addition to being important for leaders like the CEO and the CTO, EI can also help anyone to organize effective teams and give them the ability to successfully collaborate. It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture.

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Governance for Omnichannel Marketing

Forum One

In our 25 years of working with mission-driven organizations, we have seen that marketing efforts can struggle if there isn’t an effective governance framework to accompany them. Project delays, indecision, duplicated efforts, and responsibilities falling to the wayside are all symptoms of a strategy that lacks governance.