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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. You saw the word SALE and bought the overpriced widget.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

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You have on hand a copy of the organization’s current annual budget as well as a budget for each program for which you’re currently raising money. Be open to collaborating on programs, events, and funding opportunities with other local organizations that serve the same or complementary constituencies. Do you serve K-12 students?

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Every organization has pockets of restricted and unrestricted money. It's too small to write a grant for, too big to assume we just have the money.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. More money. But we weren''t going to wait to solve people''s comfort problem until we had the money or the design.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

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That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. We spend more time and money perfecting, only to be left with “perfect” products that few people can afford to enjoy. The Scandinavian design principles are rooted in simplicity and white space, and I’ve always loved to view design as a way to simplify the complex.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. It's pretty simple.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. If you are using another nonprofit’s program as an inspiration, there is no need to do so.

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