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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. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership.

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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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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. What voices are not well represented at the table that we want to ensure have a presence in our work? Create structure. However, structure does not have to mean rigidity.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.

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New Technology Developed to Amplify Community Voices for the Media

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The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Cortico’s “digital hearth”. July 8, 2019; Nieman Lab.

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Why Cross-functional Collaboration is Key to a Successful Digital Strategy

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This is why cross-functional collaboration is key to a successful digital strategy. . Especially across digital channels, your audiences are indifferent to your organizational structure, and ultimately, this lies at the core of your digital strategy. Ensure that your digital strategy aligns with cross-organizational goals.

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Pro Bono Week Spotlights Collaborative Nonprofit & Education Solutions

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In addition to bringing together people from across these sectors, Open Source Commons equips volunteers with the spaces, tools, and training they need to collaborate and create apps, content, and programs that benefit the greater Salesforce.org community. Technology is only as good as the perspectives and voices that go into building it.