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

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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. Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Don’t write outcomes in stone.

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

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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What are the lessons learned? Following are a few of my observations on the indelible takeaways and lessons learned about remote work. We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. So, has our living laboratory brought us all onboard with the benefits of the virtual office? We nailed it!

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

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In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.

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Delivering Excellence in the Age of AI or Association 4.0

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Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge. Know Who You Are With an action-oriented structure in place, you have the foundation for exploring probing questions like these: Why does the association exist?

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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Traditionally, we think of impact as, “For X cost, the organization will serve Y number of people in Z amount of time to create A, B, C outcomes using D, E, F strategies.” These strategies unfortunately use precious time and energy and miss the larger opportunity to quickly and efficiently gain and share learning with transparency and trust.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. From this learning, I was left with the question, “How can collaborations thrive when everyone feels that they are “unique”? The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.