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Seven solutions for nonprofits to effectively collaborate with stakeholders

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Include a former beneficiary on the board of directors. Including a former beneficiary on the board of directors will give the organization a more diverse perspective, allowing other board members to see where the organization is succeeding and where improvements could be made from an individual who has utilized the program.

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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

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This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Participatory practice is a concept which means giving voice to those in the community who know the issues best, and then planning and organizing solutions to these issues using the resources of the nonprofit to implement solutions.

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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. Ben’s Bells Project and the University of Arizona teamed up to create surveys that measure outcomes from the nonprofit’s Kind Campus curriculum.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

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Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. Take it from Simeon Bankhoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council in New York City, who said that involving your beneficiaries in organizational processes can be one of an organization’s core competencies if you make it a priority.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

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“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.”. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona?

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