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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. But that’s often the extent of the update. You can do it.

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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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Everything that organization does revolves around the strategic initiatives that drive the mission. Invest in Training “It’s incumbent on organizations to invest in their volunteers. It gives them the tools to be communicators who can address conflict and understand the nuances of dialogue and discussion.

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How to Structure Your Fundraising Event Committee

Greater Giving

A successful gala require a clear event plan, good people, and an organized event committee strategy. Every event director knows you need extra sets of hands—but how do you organize planning committees for the monumental task of holding a charity gala? (Not Not sure where to start with planning your fundraising event?

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. Much like the Socratic method, when we have discussions and conversations, new ideas emerge and our understanding is deepened and magnified.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: The Generational Divide (Panel Discussion)

Amy Sample Ward

This panel discussion focuses on the generational divide, with the following panelists: Wendy Harman and Suzy DeFrancis, American Red Cross. Intro from Kari: When the Case Foundation was first discussing with partners what they wanted to get out of the Summit, they talked about how to bridge the generational divide.

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

sgEngage

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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Solutions Day 2023—It’s Happening!

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We’ll send our audience back to work with new insights and answers to challenging questions like these: How can our organization prepare to manage disruptive events like the pandemic? Can our organization benefit from a better understanding of AI’s potential? Hear how she structured an initiative that hits all the right targets.

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