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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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Whether you are thinking about applying for your first grant or your organization manages several grants each year, it’s important to have clear processes to meet those mandates and avoid straying outside your mission. With many initiatives in a rapidly changing environment, it can be challenging to keep staff engaged throughout the process.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Then you need an environment that maximizes individual talents while allowing groups to work successfully together. Meg Ward, Co-Founder of Gravitate Solutions, and a contributor to our book, “Association 4.0 : An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” described her company’s hiring process like this.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

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Digital platforms and processes infuse every business activity. As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. Social skills— along with empathy help teams successfully collaborate to get work done.

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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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Keeping pace with this environment is a constant process of understanding what works, refining those strategies, and abandoning anything that does not add value. One path to buy-in is to give others the opportunity to co-create the process. Technology today is Darwinism on a timelapse of 30 frames per second.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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In addition to being important for leaders like the CEO and the CTO, EI can also help anyone to organize effective teams and give them the ability to successfully collaborate. The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. Improve communication and relationship-building among colleagues for better collaboration.

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Give Joy!

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Create a Comfortable Environment. Are there areas where workers have privacy as well as places to collaborate? Be inventive and try something different or appoint a social committee to give your team ownership of the process. Volunteer for a task or chore that no one else wants. Chat with someone you don’t usually talk to.

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5 Must-Have Productivity Software Products Nonprofits Need to Be Effective in 2021

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By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. There has never been a better time to make document management and collaboration a priority.

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