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Donation Drives: Catalyzing Change Through Collective Giving

Greater Giving

The Dynamics of Donation Drives Inclusivity and Empowerment At its core, a donation drive fosters inclusivity, inviting people from diverse backgrounds and walks of life to participate. Collaborative Events Partner with local businesses for collaborative events where a percentage of sales go towards your cause.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community. John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. . The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others. That means funds, manpower, data collection, and more. .

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Purpose at PIMCO | The Power of Partnerships & Knowing Your Why

Connection Cafe

This broader collaboration enables us to better assess employee engagement and retention as an ROI strategically linked to PIMCO’s core business strategy, and as a tool to attract and retain top talent. We work with six organizations committed to the education, employment and empowerment of women and girls across the globe.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Whether you think that''s incredible or a disaster depends on your point of view. Empowerment? But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Social bridging?

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned.