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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

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With this clarity of purpose, the nonprofit can focus on its culture. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Once we have built a culture that is connected and engaged, nonprofit leadership is primed to use the insights of this culture to build a strategic plan that everyone is invested in.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

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posted by Whitney Herr-Buchholz, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management Director of Operations & Advancement | University of Arizona School of Dance. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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How can the strategic planning process promote effective nonprofit decision-making?

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Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Bob Sell is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

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posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”.

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