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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

.orgSource

To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. Our organization had been pretty tall and top-heavy. The success is shared.

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Three Imperatives for the Modern Nonprofit CFO in the Digital Age

sgEngage

Look for allies and collaborators like IT teams, who might provide visibility into major expenses on the horizon and help avoid unexpected costs. For most nonprofits, this means creating a structural technology architecture that continually evolves, improves, and increases ROI for your organization.

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Emerging Leaders Need More than Leadership Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For decades, even centuries, our view of leadership has been defined by top-down, hierarchical structures. It’s being replaced by collaborative styles of leadership and the rise of programs and initiatives that are being co-created across departments and organizations. Today, this view is fundamentally changing.

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When Worlds Collide: Major Gifts and Direct Marketing Team Up to Maximize Mid-Level Donors

Connection Cafe

And successful mid-level programs are borrowing and blending the best of both disciplines. And there is more structure to ease any cultural or tactical friction that might arise between the departments. The strengths of each discipline are blending. We have also developed an exciting collaboration with our major gift team.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Foundations and Nonprofits: What Does it Mean to “Speak the Same Language”?

Connection Cafe

Over many years, my colleagues and I at The Rensselaerville Institute have learned that proposals based on process, structure, and beliefs are needlessly long. The annual reports blend together in the same way as do nonprofit descriptions. Collaboration is essential. Financial investors share a language built on differentiation.

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70:20:10: Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process

Gyrus

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Learning is a fairly nebulous industry.

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