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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. Both participants must be aware of context, or unspoken emotional dynamics and backstory, that might influence the outcome.” In virtual situations, awareness of your colleagues’ perspectives and needs is critical.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. Instead of addressing the “how to,” they concern themselves with the bigger issue of “why.” They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. Instead of addressing the “how to,” they concern themselves with the bigger issue of “why.” They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

When it comes to raising visibility on a given issue, nonprofits often strive to achieve broader impact—the kind of change that comes through collective action. Recent years have seen several examples of moments that captured public attention—typically after years-long efforts and organizing before they burst into wider awareness.

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Philanthropic collaboratives are finding ways to more effectively measure impact

Candid

They are keenly aware that they need to avoid harmful philanthropic measurement practices that overburden grantees, eat up grantee resources, focus on compliance rather than learning, or privilege the concerns of donors over those of grantees. Remember, though, that collaboratives also work across stakeholders.

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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. Who knows better than the people who are living the issues what will work best to address them? Those at the top decide. In recent years, that model is being challenged.

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How can effective leadership succession planning result in nonprofit sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

However, research has shown that through the regular implementation of a succession planning cycle, organizations are actually able to more efficiently run day-to-day operations vs. those that do not spend the time assessing their current structure. This is a common theme that lurks in the veins of many of our organizations. Recommendations.