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.

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Program Impact New York Model 64

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

We also use some terms like “fiat” (Government-backed money), “getting rugged” (ripped off by a project), “mooning” (rapidly increasing in value) and others along the way, sorry for the jargon but don’t worry WAGMI (we’re all going to make it). Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures.

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Donor Difference Ukraine Podcast 52

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Are we raising enough money (restricted and unrestricted) to fund our mission now and in the future? Look for allies and collaborators like IT teams, who might provide visibility into major expenses on the horizon and help avoid unexpected costs. Is the use of the funding restricted by conditions set by the funder?

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Digital Gartner Nonprofit Fund 70

Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. Who had the power to write these rules?

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Design System Structure Ratio 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Fundamentally overhauling a business model can be risky and expensive. For an organization that has traditionally been in the business of managing contracts and reimbursements, tapping into new revenue streams will require new skill sets and systems (translation: time and money). Systems-level collaboration. signs of success.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The pricing structure of cloud services is really different than traditional software and takes some getting used to. Also, in the long run, cloud-based software tends to save organizations money. I was skeptical of whether the pricing model would be good for charities. Benefit #1: Cost. No programming necessary.

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Adobe Application Charity Sharepoint 36

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

They raise money by crafting documents that reflect the terms of those who give it. 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. The annual reports of foundations celebrate how much money they have spent in a given area.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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Story Action Model Adopt 79

Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Open Collective launched in 2015 to offer solutions to a basic need: informal groups, like collectives, have few places to put their shared money. We accepted venture capital money, yes. Few tech platforms have both a successful business model and investor agreements that allow them to shift power directly to their community.

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Platform Build Open Source Profit 106

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Every organization has pockets of restricted and unrestricted money. My CFO has been very proactive and a wonderful partner in figuring out how to create an overall department budget that frees up small pockets of money for new projects.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. The neat part of COVID for nonprofits and I hear this almost on a weekly basis is that our nonprofit friends and ministry partners have raised more money in COVID than they did any year prior.

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Campaign Video Project Process 88

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Allow voting for the board (if you have this membership model). Get creative.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. And so I think it’s really important for executive leadership, and development directors and board chairs to understand that being an effective board member is not just asking for money. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. COSI had a desperate need to raise money. This isn’t just a change in youth culture.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The contemporary organization is the wrong model for civil society, the corporate structure in particular is dysfunctional, and human beings fit more naturally and are more empowered in communities, movements, and networks. It builds connections with clients and collaborators. Collaborate. It hones my thinking.

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Conversation Bookmarking Nonprofit News 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. Y’all are in for a super awesome treat over the next hour or so.

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

She’s raised a lot of money through grants. And of course, diversity, equity and inclusion, there’s been a lot of money, especially in the corporate space. So logic model, this is my tried and true. I love this logic model. She knows her stuff, folks. So I’m going to pipe down, Rachel.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Because the focus of the book is on organizational structure and not on specific acts or events, Light spends almost no time describing each organization or its particular innovations. Instead, he uses illustrative examples from each to support broad theses about leadership styles, internal structures, and operational strategies.

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Discussion Minnesota Phoenix Structure 39

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

Our conversation began with Jessica describing what a community supported kitchen is: Jessica Prentice: The idea behind the community supported kitchen is that we are modeling a new way of preparing and processing food on a community scale. How do they stay in touch and maintain collaborations?" It's been fairly informal.

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Interview Support Community Create 79

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. In our vacation analogy, you wouldn’t waste your time or your money buying a flight or researching activities for a destination that isn’t a good fit.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

because, even in very large organizations, there are never enough people, there’s never enough money, there’s never enough time, you’ve got to spend those resources really, really, really strategically. And all of these things are done cohesively and strategically so that the limited time that communications people have.

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Build Video New York City Communication 121

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. You can even save your money.

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

My colleague, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans have just published an important piece over on the Harvard Business School blog called “ Understanding the New Power ” that gives us a great high level analysis of how collaborative economy is operating in the social good sector. What you think?

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Collaboration Social Model Channel 116

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

He basically went to the state legislature and poured money into state senator and congresspeople's pockets to undercut the local ordinance, and he tied the city up in court to put an injunction on the local initiative. So the more that we can create institutions and structures and organizations that do just that.

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