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

ASU Lodestar Center

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.”

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Nonprofits can become more resilient by spending more on fundraising and admin ? new research

Pamela Grow

To help nonprofits tackle this quandary, we teamed up with two other business professors , Arian Aflaki and Goker Aydin , to develop a mathematical model to guide nonprofits on how to divvy up their spending to optimize both current performance and future resilience through their spending priorities.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: $250000 Collaboration Prize Finalists.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Thursday, February 17, 2011 $250,000 Collaboration Prize Finalists Announced posted by Jill Watts , Director of Capacity Building Initiatives ASU Lodestar Center Today the Lodestar Foundation announced the eight Finalists for the 2011 Collaboration Prize. Kellogg Foundation. However, we still have much to learn.

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What All Nonprofits Should Know About Corporate Philanthropy

Tech Soup

A study by The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found that key priorities for corporate philanthropy include: Professional development experiences for employees. ” There are a number of innovative ways that companies and nonprofits can collaborate to expand their partnerships for mutual benefit.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

To aid COVID-19 vaccine research , institutions bypassed guidelines or proprietary processes for sharing research to best support the collaborative efforts to produce a vaccine. . Emerging Tech Trends . COVID-19 pressure has tested existing EdTech needs and processes, especially in the areas of support for online students.

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BIGGER! BETTER! FASTER! CHEAPER!

ASU Lodestar Center

As a knowledge enterprise, our Center finds the wherewithal to regularly produce a few core research products in our Giving and Volunteering Study , our Arizona Scope of the Nonprofit Sector , and our Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits Study , along with our work on Models of Collaboration.

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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Our research on household giving in Arizona in 2008 reports a total of $3.05