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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

.orgSource

The answers to straightforward questions will typically indicate whether an applicant is technically qualified. But the ability to spot the qualities that make an applicant a contributor and avoid the dysfunction that characterizes a disruptor sets you up for successful team building. Hiring for fit is more challenging.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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4 Tech Solutions To Better Collaboration For Nonprofits

TechImpact

A connected nonprofit is a successful nonprofit when it comes to collaborating and working in teams. While each organization varies in size, locales, and causes, technology can help facilitate workflow. Nonprofit Technology News reports on the top 4 tech characteristics to consider when collaborating through technology.

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Is Clubhouse the Right Application for Your Social Media Plan?

Forum One

Clubhouse—the invite-only, audio-based social application that’s been drawing in celebrities and expert thought leaders—facilitates widespread collaboration on global topics by allowing users to participate in different conversations on different topics in real-time. As one might guess, Clubhouse was one that floated to the top.

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How To Facilitate Leadership Development In Your Nonprofit As Part of Doing the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past year, I’ve been collaborating with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies , with generous support from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation , to create a leadership training resource for emerging nonprofit leaders that infuses the distinct values, mindsets, and interests of today’s emerging leaders.

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Grant writer as chief collaborative officer

ASU Lodestar Center

Just to make sure, you unearth the official grant application checklist that was buried in a folder from day one, only to discover to your horror that you were so focused on writing the proposal narrative you completely forgot about the budget. We hired a grant writer so that the rest of us don’t have to worry about grant applications.”

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

sgEngage

Participants can benefit from leadership development, knowledge sharing, network building, collaborations or partnerships, and/or compensation. . Collective groups may include all applicants for a particular funding stream or a larger public group. So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice?