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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

.orgSource

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. Clarify Roles.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Digital disruption : The rise of digital platforms and online advertising has disrupted traditional revenue models for local news, making it difficult for many outlets to adapt. Nonprofits are being asked to address these challenges and find sustainable models for local journalism.

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Which leadership styles optimize organizational performance and impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Hierarchies are becoming flatter, work more collaborative and co-location less relevant. A collaborative process also helps to build trust.

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Is a crisis management plan enough?

ASU Lodestar Center

Employees are expecting authenticity, transparency, flexibility and collaboration from their leaders, characteristics of which are not typically written into crisis management plans. Natalia’s family is originally from Brazil and she lives in Carmel Valley, California, with her husband and two small children.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

These experts will come together to research, participate in a collaborative design sprint, test ideas with the community, and ultimately work with Salesforce pro bono volunteers to develop and launch a solution that will be free to all. My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”.

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. By using data about each loan, including daily popularity, the Kiva team worked with DataRobot to build dozens of models to identify relationships in the data. Thanks to these models, Kiva can now predict which loans are unlikely to be funded each day.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue.

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