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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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What’s the first lesson of Leadership 101? The opportunity to share challenges, in confidence, with the brightest colleagues in the business is an invaluable resource. Create space for conversation. Make time for reflection. Begin with yourself. Be the change. Walk the talk—right? It sounds simple. Observe behavior.

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Investigating and Improving the Questions You Ask Grantees

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The sector itself continued to change, but it was a challenge to effectively adapt questions to match those changes. Here are a few lessons we learned along the way. Those questions can be in an application, in conversations with program officers, or during the deliberation meetings with your board. Take it out.

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How To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

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Their experiences involved unprecedented social and industry challenges that nothing could have prepared them to meet. Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. The abrupt switch to remote work was a global challenge.

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5 Fundraising Trends for 2021 and Beyond

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The entire social sector learned a valuable lesson in 2020: even the most rigorous planning can’t insulate us from the need to be flexible and adapt to the changing world around us. One key lesson we learned in 2020 is that we’re truly stronger when we work together. 184 days after engaging with a donation page.

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How to Drive Next-Level Grantmaking: Start with Levers, Ripples, and Spheres

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PEAK Grantmaking’s work centers on five core principles , each challenging our community of 8,000 philanthropy professionals to critically consider their internal grantmaking processes and perspectives, as a means toward operationalizing equitable grantmaking practices. This is the engine that drives transformation.

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How To Build A World-Class Workplace Culture

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Those characteristics include: A strong commitment to excellence.

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