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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, explains the new roles like this, “An integrated strategic plan gives everyone in the organization a voice, especially the professionals from marketing and membership. Preparing for the unexpected.

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New Bridgespan Report Examines Philanthropy’s Potential to Dismantle Structural Racism

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How can funders give in ways that will foster an equitable society? This is the focus of a new report, "Unlocking Social Progress by Addressing Structural Racism," authored by a team from The Bridgespan Group in collaboration with the Racial Equity Institute.

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

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. You can do it.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. The post Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost appeared first on.orgSource. The success is shared.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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Some would say these words as they introduced their foundation: “Here at foundation X, our approach to giving is unique.” Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.

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Webinar: Creating a Legacy Giving Program in 5 Simple Steps

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Legacy giving programs can feel overwhelming, but when you know the step-by-step process of how to create one from scratch or grow the one you have, it’s easier than you think. This collaboration was arranged through a listing on Nexus Marketing’s HAPO (Help a Partner Out) page.

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