.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Nancy MacRae, CEO at the Emergency Nurses Association and Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association , steered their members through the challenge. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions.

Milwaukee 221

Milwaukee Wisconsin Collaboration Associations 221

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.” Clarity of purpose.

Collaboration 98

Collaboration Los Angeles Strategy Indiana 98

.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

But I am struck by how often our contributors’ insights are the recommendations we needed to survive that challenge. Resist the temptation to model the competition. Enable volunteers to collaborate and participate by doing what they do best and offering their perspective in specific ways. Embrace a challenge.

Advice 170

Advice Course Associations Change 170

.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A new threat is building in the wake of every previous challenge. Learn Through Challenge Resilience goes beyond successfully recovering from a setback. Learn Through Challenge Resilience goes beyond successfully recovering from a setback. Yes, it involves assessing the situation and addressing problems.

Milwaukee 221

Milwaukee Wisconsin Associations Lesson 221

.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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

Structure 251

Structure Evaluation Time Culture 251

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. It may be challenging for “buttoned-up” organizations, where people are in the habit of “following rules,” to introduce a more casual attitude. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. What if the usual suspects are not to blame? Could the issue be trust?

Associations 221

Associations Leadership Question Wisconsin 221

.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Now that remote work makes a casual stroll through the cubicles challenging, I suggest an intentional approach. If performance issues have been a problem, keep an open mind. Then, as you learn more about their challenges and opportunities, you can narrow the scope. Fortunately, subpar technology is a problem that can be fixed.

Team 221

Team Evaluation Attitude Interview 221

.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

The challenge is part of the fun, right? Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. Stuff” is coming your way.

Leadership 170

Leadership Associations Skills Digital 170

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ?

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? 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.

Journal 89

Journal Local News Fund 89

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When massive, global challenges compel them to work together in new ways, the first hurdle nonprofits face is the discussion regarding the interoperability of data, data migration, data integration, and data middleware. The post The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity appeared first on NTEN. This is genuinely a good thing.

Problem 62

Problem Data API Global 62

Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Impact Support Gambia 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

Leadership 92

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This is something Classy can speak to personally, as we made the decision to pivot our annual conference, the Collaborative, into a fully virtual event this year. The Collaborative: Virtual Sessions drew in over 10,000 registrants and was, in many ways, just as successful as our in-person event. There’s never been a larger demand.

Trend 261

Trend Fundraising Virtual Haiti 261

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

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. Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale.

Leadership 98

Leadership Impact San Diego Structure 98

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. Making Everybody Part of the Process of Problem-Solving.

Local 36

Local Challenge Romania Open 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A recent study from two researchers affiliated with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has challenged the public perception about AI’s negative impact on society due to the “robots taking over jobs.” everything is a computational challenge. Link Between Artificial Intelligence and Wellbeing .

Homeless 163

Homeless Research Global System 163

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Their potential to impact significantly the social challenges that plague our cities is extraordinary. Collective Impact is a methodology designed to facilitate cross-sector collaborations in order to move the needle on important issues. Cities are complex ecosystems with a broad range of challenges requiring collaborative solutions.

Impact 98

Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Model cooperative behavior. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?" When it comes People, most traditional MBAs offer little that prepares you for the daily challenges of working with a team, with direct reports or working alongside other leaders. Call attention to and recognize cooperative behavior.

Skills 92

Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Here’s what the collaboration helped these organizations achieve: 1. Kiva’s team of data scientists and software engineers partnered with the DataRobot AI for Good program to help solve this problem by improving the way loans are promoted to lenders. They took advantage of a free opportunity through DataRobot’s AI for Good program.

San Francisco 98

San Francisco Kiva Impact Learning 98

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Therefore, nonprofits must have a crisp understanding of the problem they solve and how they solve it. Model Behavior.

Model 55

Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

My question to them was: What is your advice for leaders as we enter what is surely to be a challenging 2021 for most businesses? They’ve seen them wrestling with children, in trying to manage personal and professional challenges at home, more Zoom gaffes than we can count, etc., It's the same with stress. “So,

Advice 97

Advice Law Authoring Beginner 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Join me on February 22nd at 9:00 am PT for a LinkedIn Live with Zoe Amar for a conversation about taking the first step for responsible AI adoption.We’ll discuss the challenges, tips, and practical resources available. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

Adopt 79

Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In order to decide on this topic, we asked our community to submit challenges. 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. Why Climate Justice?

Impact 116

Impact California Conservancy Bolivia 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. But there are challenges, too.

Open 107

Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Over the last five years, a series of funders, communities and cross-sector stakeholders have embarked on new ways of working characterized by thinking at a systems-level, and then mobilizing networks of actors to try and solve large problems at scale. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0”

Build 112

Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Bosses and employees need to work together to solve problems and accomplish shared goals,” writes Ardi.

Collaboration 62

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo.

Arts 95

Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

Social 85

Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

I worked for the Chalkboard Project fresh out of university, a nonprofit organization founded and fueled by Foundations for a Better Oregon, a coalition of foundations in Oregon focused on collaborating to make a meaningful impact to issues in Oregon – in the case of the Chalkboard Project, that focus was on public education reform.

Oregon 140

Oregon Foundation Ideas Award 140

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore.

Collaboration 49

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Responsive tech support.

Culture 125

Culture Activities Active Activism 125

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Many nonprofits, particularly smaller organizations, say their biggest challenge to using social media effectively is that they don’t have the time or staff. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. Sue has also collaborated on social media activities with the food bank.

Hunger 114

Hunger Project Free Flash 114

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Conducted in January and February 2013, Nonprofit Finance Fund’s 2013 State of the Sector survey assessed the financial and management challenges facing 5,983 organizations across the country. Says one survey respondent, "Our greatest challenge is building a strong Board of Directors that is willing to fundraise for the organization.

Government 85

Government Research New York Homeless 85