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8 Steps for Creating a Nonprofit Innovation Culture

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Collaboration: Working collaboratively is the only way to combine ideas and perspectives. Overcome Inertia Innovation can be stifled by thorough approval cycles, long hierarchical structures, and outdated attitudes, often prevalent in nonprofits. Showcase attitudes, actions, and qualities you want your team to mirror.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

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Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. Mapping the Change. Lessons from the Field.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Are Marketing and Fundraising Changing Permanently?

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To optimize donor experience, nonprofits must challenge clunky manual processes that can be replaced with integrated payments and platforms and donor-centric, cross-functional collaboration. Silos within fundraising teams and collaboration with other internal teams — already under increasing tension — must ultimately be challenged and reset.

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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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Break Down Culture Siloes for Effective Collaboration. Major changes in technology and processes often call for major shifts in organizational culture as well. However, connecting finance to the program and development teams enables highly effective collaboration. Key Elements for Responsive Philanthropy.

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How to Write Job Descriptions for Your Nonprofit

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Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Including specifics about the role.

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Responsive Philanthropy: How to Address Community Needs in Time of Crisis

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Break Down Culture Siloes for Effective Collaboration Major changes in technology and processes often call for major shifts in organizational culture as well. However, connecting finance to the program and development teams enables highly effective collaboration. Make space for culture shifts sooner rather than later, too.