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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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Study the Data, But Eat the Cakeā€”Put the Human Factor Forward

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Sunk cost fallacy is that soul-sucking tendency to continue investing time, money, or effort into activities that are clearly failing. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is an Azure-based environment for building and deploying AI models. But we gained direct sightlines to shifts in our broader environment.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In this environment, building a community of loyal advocates for your cause is more important than ever before. Followers will tune out repetitive asks for money. Collaborate with partners and influencers. At the same time, nonprofits saw the largest trust decline of any American institution in 2023.

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How To Build An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Strive to create a culture that is at once both hard and soft ā€“ simultaneously tough in driving for measurable results on a few highly visible targets and supportive of individuals to create an environment of collaboration, trust, and loyalty. How do we make money? What drives our results? Who are our most important customers?

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Challenging Conversationsā€”Tackling Risk

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Although money may be the object of concern, the triggers for loss are frequently pulled by circumstances outside the finance committeeā€™s scope. Or that the director who is championing a lucrative collaboration with a corporate partner is also on that organizationā€™s board. These conversations are limited to bottom-line issues.

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Extreme Teams Do This

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Strive to create a culture that is at once both hard and soft ā€“ simultaneously tough in driving for measurable results on a few highly visible targets and supportive of individuals to create an environment of collaboration, trust, and loyalty. How do we make money? What drives our results? Who are our most important customers?

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Cisco Shares How To Become A More Collaborative Organziation

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Collaboration Imperative is a totally cool book. It offers a wealth of executive strategies for unlocking an organizationā€™s true potential through achieving the greatest level of collaborative success possible within that organization. Saved money. Trust anchors every successful collaborative team.

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