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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

sgEngage

They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible. When organizations craft grant applications, they are expected to spell out specifically how their plan will work.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

sgEngage

For example…” What was interesting is that after they made these types of statements, what they all went on to share about how they granted funds, vetted applications, organized their boards, and the process by which they evaluated their grantee partners was very, very similar. Collaboration in a Crisis. Testing Your Assumptions.

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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Provide enough context in a well-structured manner to ensure they can complete the task you ask of them. By allowing team members to express their perspectives on AI use, you foster a culture where creative ideas can surface, potentially leading to groundbreaking applications of AI in your work.

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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. Consume information voraciously without obsessing about its practical applications. What Is Growth?

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). Applicant Contact Information.

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Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy 

Candid

From programs that make complex data-based decisions to applications that transcribe spoken words into text, AI offers new opportunities to do things more creatively and efficiently. So in 2023, Candid’s executives, human resources team, compliance manager, and legal counsel collaboratively developed guidelines for AI use.

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August #4Change Chat: Opportunities for Collaboration

Amy Sample Ward

Topic: How do social media open new doors for collaboration (especially internationally)? Here are some questions to consider: has your organization found new collaborators (other organizations, companies, networks, etc.) what issues are unique to collaborations of this type? Details: Date: August, 13th. Join the Conversation.