ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Forum One

AUGUST 9, 2023

Once the website is built—the scaffolding, structure, and design—your content is what brings it to life. It often entails rethinking how you want to communicate about your organization in the new structure and style you’re pursuing with your redesign project. There will be a lot of copying and pasting though.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 27, 2021

We’ve had to adapt our communication and collaboration styles in this new remote work environment, and that’s meant more meetings, more instant messages, and more interruptions throughout the day. Model the Boundaries You Want to See. This can be a great tool for your team that helps put structure around your day and workweek.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Organized recordkeeping is key. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

The foundation of this skill set is the ability to give and receive feedback. In addition to bringing issues into the open, you need to build a mechanism in which there is a consistent opportunity for calling in/calling out behaviors: Are there structural and procedural processes in place in which to have these feedback conversations?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In the panel Rethinking Strategy: The Intersection of Impact, Brand, and Business Model, three experts defined these terms and illustrated their use for effective nonprofit communications. Evaluative thinking needs to be built into the foundation of both strategy and everyday operation, and means much more than deploying an annual survey.

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Model Impact Business Case Study 55

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

The kind of food that nourishes the mind and body, and is foundational to growth and many other critical human needs, like education, housing, jobs, and transportation. A comprehensive solution will require a collective effort, and creative collaboration across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many of the most complex and intractable social issues that nonprofits face can only be effectively addressed by collective impact, via collaboration among organizations or even across sectors. Organizations should examine their own structure and capacity. Who is involved?

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. But whether you call it “networked” ways of working, “collaboration 2.0” Call this “social change 2.0”.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

That's a lot of nonprofits, many that are doing similar work and competing for funding from foundations and individual donors. The Prize also seeks to build an information base of effective practice models that can be studied and used by academics, nonprofit leaders and grantmakers to inspire and advance their work."

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation produced these results as documented by Edelman. The Knight Foundation launched the “ Giving Day Playbook ,” a step-by-step online guide of best practices, templates, checklists, and other resources for community foundations to successfully host a Giving Day in their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. There is minimal structure or roles and as a living organism, the structure changes. Resources: What is the network’s funding model?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The model has a natural appeal. We at Monitor Institute have been digging into questions such as these as part of a broader reflection on the networks-focused work of the organizational effectiveness team at the David & Lucile Packard Foundation. Field-wide capacity is never going to be built one organization at a time.

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Learning San Francisco Structure Knowledge Management 97

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Why Use One? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Understanding corporate motivations behind corporate philanthropy will help you structure a mutually successful partnership. A corporation’s foundation, CSR report, or CSR website is an excellent place to start. What Your Organization Needs to Know About Successfully Collaborating with the For-Profit Sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

With declines in government funding, many that have historically relied on this source are looking to tap new sources of funding, from individuals, events, foundations and corporations. Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. Systems-level collaboration. In the basic PFS model, private.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Adin is right: there are challenges to putting the wisdom of crowds to good use for foundations. But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! Foundation application?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. Because customer service is the foundation of their work, the company believes that all staff should be trained in it.

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Library Las Vegas Culture Learning 77

Connection Cafe

APRIL 17, 2018

The Builder constructs a: Sustainable financial structure that meets mission needs, goals, and aspirations over time. Sustainable and dynamic business model that finds the necessary revenues and efficiently and effectively manages expenditures over the fiscal years. Tip: Create mutually beneficial relationships across the organization.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. Because customer service is the foundation of their work, the company believes that all staff should be trained in it.

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Library Las Vegas Culture Learning 62

Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The class was structured with lessons, followed by 20 minutes or so to complete an exercise. The Salesforce Foundation has continually struggled with how to make Dreamforce meaningful for the nonprofits who attend. This year, the Nonprofit/Foundation sessions and exhibitors were all on the lower level of the nearby Marriott Marquis.

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Model Data Classes Nonprofit 238

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Additionally, pursuing impact investments may short a nonprofit’s focus to creating a more business-like model that might not necessarily work for the benefit of its target population (Ategeka, 2016). The organizational leaders should be prepared to invest time and effort to accommodate impact investments and collaborate with the investors.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Social good organizations (nonprofits, foundations, education institutions, etc.) Nonprofits are going to become more reliant on enablers like AI and quantum modeling, which will drive everything from financial models to marketing campaigns to donor engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. There are a few foundational questions to be asked before building a cultural movement through the use of media and storytelling. It's important to build your platforms to both create and demonstrate impact.

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Culture Build Change Media 84

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. So that’s how you sort of lay that foundation, you start activating it, and then you progress. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. .

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

Outdated organizational models that segment departments into their own distinct areas and with their own distinct messaging leave constituents confused and even less connected than before they first engaged. Focus on the supporters that make your work possible.

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Experiment Organization eBook Blackbaud 28

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

This is a prudent collaboration since a viable deal structure requires all three to remain ‘whole’ for the lifetime of a purchasing arrangement. The foundation of an agreement – which captures behavioral rules and roles – usually as a set of Service Levels for performance, and Charters that codify roles and responsibilities.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Even when there is funding to build a tech solution, perhaps from a large foundation, there is rarely the long-term funding to maintain it, let alone improve it. Another is how funders like the Ford and Sloan Foundations have used our platform to facilitate millions of funding for digital infrastructure research.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Membership associations are a popular type of nonprofit that use a member-based business model to advocate for change and foster community—usually within a specific industry or sector. They play a pivotal role in fostering collaboration, advancing causes, and driving change across diverse industries and sectors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. So what did you do next?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. And as you all know, capital campaigns have been around for a long time.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2005

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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