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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. The degree to which a nonprofit can articulate the strength of its reach, resources, reputation, and capabilities is an important key in securing productive collaborative relationships. Internal assessment. Model selection. Recommendations.

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

sgEngage

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. Learning, we do naturally.

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Creating A Culture of Continuous Improvement Based On Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H.

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Four Tips to Help Nonprofit Marketing Departments Create a Culture of Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

But the reality is that in many nonprofit organizations, different teams and departments do not have a shared mental model for a culture of philanthropy. It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Business guru Peter F.

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Ant Trails, Autumn, and Placement of Fences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to capture some reflections around my burning question: How do you think about using social media effectively along the continuum of open/closed networks? And, it is also clear where the fence or password protection belongs when the conversations needs to be internal. Modeling community norms can be incredibly valuable. (See

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . Technology that provides that progress across all of your areas of focus and internal departments connects you to those findings faster. .

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Building a Culture of Experimentation

Museum 2.0

Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design. Whenever an intern takes a prototype out on the floor, I ask her, “What might change about this project based on this test?” That’s what pushes us to improve.

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