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.” Recommendations.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Often, these relationships develop informally. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? Introducing coaching into your culture is a good way to begin. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Trust and Culture Trust and culture are deeply intertwined. From the beginning of her tenure at ENA, Nancy has made building a positive culture a priority. Nancy MacRae, MS, CAE, ENA, describes the relationship between trust and culture. As you create a strong culture, you also gain trust,” Nancy advised.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

We were living in the midst of cultural, technological, and economic instability long before the pandemic. CEOs must be role models for their teams. In the past, resilience, like culture building, may have been viewed as a “soft” skill because the qualities that are involved don’t directly impact the bottom line.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Integrating IT into the organization’s strategy and culture should be the new reality. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority.

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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. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Authentic engagement.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

Early in our relationship, my executive coach reminded me that every CEO gets the organization they deserve. Your audit might explore any, or all of, these seven areas: Technology systems Policies and procedures Security Productivity Communication Culture Professional development How you present this initiative to your employees is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

Is culture of philanthropy embedded in the way that everyone does their work? What is a culture of philanthropy? It is all about how to nurture a nonprofit organizational culture that has shared responsibility for fundraising among all of its people. But, does your entire organization treat it this way?

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. A Path to Change.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, that model is being challenged. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. Stronger Relationships : Grantmakers can experience more trust and credibility between them and the communities they serve and an increased understanding, as well as the ability to take new risks.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Create a culture dedicated to employee well-being. The key to creating a culture dedicated to well-being is mutual respect. Build relationships.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

When you turn to another person for relationship advice, whether that’s a trusted friend or therapist, you often start by discussing what’s bothering you. But when it comes to a troubling relationship with your data, can you turn to those same people? Solution : First, don’t confuse availability with accessibility.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Organizations that treat culture like an impromptu party will see their “guests” leave early. Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. But we realize that building culture isn’t a project with a finish line.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

The new book, The Empathy Advantage , speaks to anyone with responsibility for recruiting, engaging, leading and retaining the next generation of workers – a workforce shaped by the pandemic that fundamentally transformed the relationship between individuals and organizations. Those models, now, are a liability rather than a guide.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In our last npENGAGE post , we shared some advice for establishing a trusting corporate volunteer relationship that results in not only great project outcomes, but also sets the foundation for a successful long term partnership. Sticky relationships are meaningful partnerships that sustain far past an initial volunteer opportunity.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

or, “What are the actual actions we can take to realize our vision of a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion?” We need to have the opportunity to learn together because we learn in relationship with each other. Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

In the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , my co-author Aliza Sherman and I share a framework to think more broadly about creating a culture of wellbeing in the workplace. It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Professional development officers are relationship builders. Retention saves money by reducing recruiting and training costs and increases income by eliminating relationship disruptions, thus shortening the time between first solicitation and first gift. Encourage collaboration by allowing for joint credit for solicitations and visits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Assigning volunteers to work in groups is a great way to deepen relationships, and provide mentoring and mission-focused collaboration. Reliable volunteer retention strategies are critical to creating a culture that draws people in and appreciates their contribution. Team building. Job titles, job descriptions and training.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. 1) Everybody is People.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 27, 2021

Boundaries are needed in many areas of our lives: finances, relationships, friendships, how we spend our free time, and how we spend our time at work. Model the Boundaries You Want to See. It’s much harder to hold employees accountable when boundaries are broken if your culture is one of “do as I say, not as I do.”

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Develop a good relationship with your bank. The ability to collaborate is one of this sector’s greatest strengths. Create an atmosphere of collaboration.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

Introducing the first article in our series about the importance of nonprofit workplace culture. It’s About the Relationships: In her own words, Sara explained PENCIL as a group of people with “a commitment to education and a belief among the team that we’re all there because we enjoy and believe in what it is that we’re doing.”. ”I

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Despite trends in digital collaboration, a strategic geographic location continues to be essential for organizational success. Optimal office function requires a variety of costs that depend upon your occupancy model. Discover these factors, and how one additional model could save your NGO up to 40% vs. the traditional lease model.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Random House Mondadori and Expanding the Spanish-language Bookshare Program Benetech’s strong relationships with numerous partners across sectors are fundamental to our continued success. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

” She described a road map for the future, with one of its superhighways being a focus on “radical collaboration.”. As I pondered the lessons I’ve learned in my career and how to drive social good to greater impact, I landed on eight recommendations for escalating collaboration to advance the social economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

How can social media be used to build high-quality connections, a motivating relationship between members and build trust and reciprocity? The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

More specifically, the flagship land grant and top research university sought out this Salesforce CRM expansion to enable greater collaboration and insight into UVM researcher engagements with internal stakeholders and external partners. We’ve achieved a model for success that we can now use as a foundation to build from.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States. And when you sign the treaty, you haven’t succeeded.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

However, James Kouzes and Barry Posner — authors of The Leadership Challenge — illustrate how leadership goes beyond the individual: it's a relationship. Modeling the Way. When leaders enable others to act, they foster collaboration and trust, as well as strengthen others to perform at the best of their ability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

Three definable CFO roles took shape as I continued to be lost in deep holistic thought: the Builder, the Strategic Decision-Maker, and the organization’s Cultural Trendsetter. Sustainable and dynamic business model that finds the necessary revenues and efficiently and effectively manages expenditures over the fiscal years.

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