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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

sgEngage

Defining and assessing impact is rarely simple but taking a collaborative grantmaking approach can help you identify the real learnings and center the stakeholder to create a solution that actually drives results. Or better yet, they quickly learned of alternative options that exceeded the impact they originally envisioned.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

.orgSource

Arianna Rehak, Co-Founder and CEO of Matchbox Virtual Media, explains the power of collaboration like this. Making a habit of game planning alternate scenarios is another way to promote agile thinking. To meet fast-moving trends, we’ll need to be ready to explore unexpected collaborations and embrace unique perspectives on our work.

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Research Friday: Ten Types of Collaboration (an alternate view)

ASU Lodestar Center

Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize. We noticed that a great deal did not fit neatly into any one model outlined in Models of Collaboration.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy. This report looks to fill that gap by examining U.S.

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Free Alternatives to Ning

Forum One

" Where does that leave those of us who need a free-for-use Ning alternative? At Forum One, we periodically examine dozens of collaboration platforms. A social networking tool similar to an intranet, specializing in online collaboration. Alternatives to Ning Document. We will phase out our free service."

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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Respondents also said service increased their belief that they can make a positive difference in their community (79%), self-awareness (78%), knowledge about social, political, and civic issues (72%), and ability to collaborate with others (80%).

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The Value of Project Retrospectives: Project Closure and Lessons Learned

Media Cause

By conducting a comprehensive review of the project closure and lessons learned, org anizations can uncover opportunities for improvement––such as enhancing internal collaboration and workflow, addressing vague direction and feedback, and establishing better-defined roles and responsibilities.

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