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Charity resilience: Navigating uncertainty with confidence and strategy

Charity Village

This blog series aims to equip charities with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate uncertainty effectively, leveraging opportunity and risk analysis for decision-making, and creating adaptive structures for sustained success.

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How Innovation Naturally Emerges From Deliberate Inefficiency

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. It's time to build again,” says Parker. Seek novelty to create strategic optionality.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

In an environment fraught with fear mongering and skeptical potential allies, Candid persisted in enhancing Demographics via Candid. They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Our environment is telling us how important our data is by how hard we work to protect it. For organizational leaders, deputizing—and supporting—the right person at your organization will return huge dividends in the form of clean, organized, and well-documented data structures. Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit.

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Five Crucial Actions That Build Unity And Foster Performance

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Meet the demand for direct and intentional forays into the heart of power structures, forces, and accepted traditions. Promote an open environment for inquiry, free of conflict, devoid of oppositional energy, and driven by a positive spirit of curiosity. That structure became The Belonging Rules. Listen without labels.

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Planning and Hosting Your First Fundraising Committee Meeting

Greater Giving

Crafting a Fundraising Event Committee Meeting Agenda for Success The cornerstone of any successful fundraising committee meeting is a well-structured agenda. Neglecting Team Dynamics: Foster a collaborative and positive environment within the committee. Start by outlining the key topics that need discussion. Happy planning!

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

Amy Sample Ward

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! David : I think that goes to different ways you can structure how you bring people together.