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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. To inspire performance, set common goals.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers.

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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. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”

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Six steps for your association to adopt new technology

Nimble AMS

Build trust with your staff by getting a core group of employees involved early in your AMS implementation process. By working with a key group of stakeholders, you can better understand how your new AMS will impact all staff. Elevate two-way communication by regularly meeting with your staff stakeholder group.

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How To: DIY Community & Content Mapping

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few of years I’ve had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. During this time, I’ve help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups.

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The Why, What And How Of Learning

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Forming strategic collaborations to rescue a dying company. Keyes calls his “ C-Suite Learning ” as the heart of his book and a valuable road map to help readers form a path to his/her own learning journey. Why We Learn Collaboration : leveraging the power of others working together. Leading during times of turmoil.