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

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. To inspire performance, set common goals.

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

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Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. There was a time when associations didn’t think of their members as customers.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems. Promote Collaboration Creative people understand the power of group thinking.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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Hire for Fit Don’t rely on games, group lunches, or happy hours to turn incompatibility into excellence. Then you need an environment that maximizes individual talents while allowing groups to work successfully together. Don’t rely on games or group lunches to turn incompatibility into excellence. Trust me, it’s worth it.

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The community approach to problem solving

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This more just and equitable approach to philanthropy has been practiced for decades and the ethos it is based in—that those closest to the problem are the closest to the solutions—has deep roots in community organizing, deliberative democracy, and even in philanthropy itself. . To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging. It may take some mental wrangling.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

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Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”