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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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Mastering Nonprofit Board Recruitment: A Strategic Guide for Executive Directors

Bloomerang

Here’s a detailed breakdown of critical steps to prepare: Understand organizational goals and governance needs: Begin by peering into the core of your organization. Consider using scoring rubrics or structured interview protocols to standardize evaluations and minimize bias to keep things equitable. What are your dreams?

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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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Six Best Practices for a Stronger Audit Relationship Now, however, nonprofits and auditing firms are more likely to share and leverage their diverse experiences to better collaborate with one another. Collaborate Audits are a team sport! This type of collaboration should be happening throughout the year.

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Where Can Nonprofits Find Hidden Treasure In A Request For Proposal?

Bloomerang

These are often aligned with the funder’s strategic priorities and should also align with the criteria for evaluating a successful proposal. Highlight these words and integrate them into your response so the funder will know you understand their needs and can form a collaborative partnership. Review the criteria for an award.

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Leveraging data to better serve under-resourced communities 

Candid

Data is critical in evaluating programs, demonstrating the need for new services, and helping nonprofits build an airtight case for support. Rather than competing for limited resources, we are collaborating to secure funding and bring about policy change.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Loss of investigative reporting: Investigative journalism, which is often resource-intensive, has suffered in many areas, leading to reduced oversight of local government and institutions. Collaboration with academia: Partner with educational institutions to create programs that benefit both students and local journalism.

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Is the Higher Education Pipeline Shrinking or Just Taking a Nap?

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Colleges and universities may need to shift their revenue strategies to reduce their tuition dependency and diversify their revenue through new fundraising tactics, partnerships, online courses, flexible programs for non-traditional students, and hard skills training. Here are some ideas to rejuvenate a shrinking pipeline: Collaborate.