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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

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.”

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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In our models, we assume that astronauts are intelligent, that they’re experts in their technical areas, and that they have at least some teamwork skills. Similarly, when you are building a project-related team, document goals, and objectives and ensure that all participants understand what success looks like.

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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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Preparing this document is a learning experience. These are a few of the documents that can be included in online welcome handbooks: Bylaws. A buddy system helps to reinforce the culture and model the behavior that you want to promote within the organization. Preparing a board matrix is a learning experience.

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Is Your Remote Team Getting the TLC They Deserve? An Audit Delivers Answers

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If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. But do begin with clear documentation that is available to everyone. Conducting small focus groups promotes engagement and allows employees to collaborate and co-create strategies for improvement.

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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I like the fact that the source documents are always provided.) Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. Ideally, a copywriter, a marketer, and an IT staffer would collaborate to develop the scripts.

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Insights into Collaborative Benchmarking Survey for the Social Good Sector

Connection Cafe

In July 2019, The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper was released in partnership between Blackbaud, NetHope, and NTEN. It focused on answering the question, “How do we as a sector improve by collaboratively sharing our data?”. Insights into the Collaborative Benchmarking Survey Results. What can I do now?

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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.