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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? You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. You can do it.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Isolation taught us the value of the relationships and the technology that sustained our communities. But the relationships we cultivated over years were critical in the early days.” I’ve always understood the importance of relationships,” Kristine noted. That hammered home the connection between relationship building and trust.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Often, these relationships develop informally. Be Intentional What can we do to facilitate more deliberate mentoring relationships? To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Most CEOs are lucky enough to have a mentor or two in their past.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

sgEngage

They guide our relationships, how we craft grant solicitations, applications, and reports, how we review opportunities, track progress, and ultimately how we judge and support what’s possible. Move Past Promises to Deliver Collaborative Impact. All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain.

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Which leadership styles optimize organizational performance and impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. The combined disruptions of these phenomena are affecting business structures, organizational cultures, and processes. Authentic engagement.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns. Ultimately, it was Candid’s responsiveness and emphasis on relationship building that shifted my perspective from uncertainty to confidence.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

VQ Strategies

As the field of volunteer engagement has become more professionalized and as organizations grow and mature, many that historically benefited from auxiliaries now recognize some of the challenges inherent in these relationships. Of course, there are auxiliaries that are adaptable, responsive, and truly collaborative. A Path to Change.