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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. You are struggling to make old procedures fit new formats.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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It’s not difficult to evaluate when someone has the right background and experience to do a job. Using Suzanne Bell’s example, it can be helpful to consider both the technical and psychosocial roles that will facilitate the work. Don’t rely on games or group lunches to turn incompatibility into excellence.

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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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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. There are two basic ways to facilitate a group brainstorming session. Basic Approaches.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Networked Facilitation.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Test and evaluate as you move ahead.”