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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues. Highlighting organizational or project-related weaknesses can be confrontational and require a level of candor that may be outside the board’s comfort zone. The conversation can easily devolve into unproductive speculation. They offer three categories of situations.

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Why Is Communication Important in Project Management?

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Communication is the most important tool a project manager and their team has to help clients achieve their goals, especially in the ever-changing landscape of the current workplace. Every facet of the organization benefits from a project management role team member and communicating in the most effective way possible.

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Five Tactics for Effective Communication in Nonprofit Project Management

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Effective communication is the key to successful project management, especially with the shift to hybrid and remote work environments. Managing projects and teams can be tricky, even in an office, but careful communication must happen in all work formats to ensure smooth processes and high-quality work.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

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A well-crafted RFP attracts the right partners and lays the foundation for successful projects. Talk to peers about their experiences with similar projects. Outline a specific need or problem and what the ideal outcome of your project looks like. Engage in online forums, email listservs, and directly with vendors or agencies.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

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Salesforce.org Partners and Staff collaborating at our last in-person Partner Summit in 2019. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. We’re also thrilled to bring together several special guests for keynotes and fireside chat conversations! There is something for everyone!

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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You’ve probably had a conversation with the bot twins, ChatGPT and Bard. To provide customized support, an AI must be configured and trained to assist in your particular project. Eliza was a natural language processing program created to explore the dynamics of conversation between humans and machines. Check Bing out.

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