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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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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

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Understanding the challenges BIPOC leadership face in the nonprofit sector One of the primary challenges BIPOC leaders face is limited access to funding.As Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. There are technology tools that can make information and data analytics accessible to everyone. Martech changes overnight.

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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.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging. Help your association elevate its reputation.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another. Move Past Promises to Deliver Collaborative Impact.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

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Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures.