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Learning to Love the Re-Org: How We Executed a Staff Restructuring

Museum 2.0

In the first rectangle, I sketched out one version of how our organization could be structured. After an hour, I had 12 different versions of our staff structure, each in its own little box. But I resisted structure. And so we stayed egalitarian and collaborative. Was the re-org perfect? Some were impractical.

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Unions and their role in the social sector

Candid

Unions are usually structured around large national/international organizations that contain smaller local organizations (also known as “locals”). They were followed by the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs (AFL-CIO), which granted $23 million. Unions are both local and national.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: The Generational Divide (Panel Discussion)

Amy Sample Ward

Suzy : I know many people think the boomers like structure in the work place, we are concerned with making money – but we were the age of Aquarius! When you take on a job in a nonprofit, you’re normally doing a lot more than you signed for without a lot of structure. Wendy : If nothing else, Millennials are collaborative.

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Growing Bigger, Staying Collaborative - 5 Tools for Building Non-Bureaucratic Organizations

Museum 2.0

One of my organization's core values is radical collaboration. But radical collaboration with our community only works if we also collaborate internally as a team. We all collaborated to develop programs, strategies, and community partnerships. Sometimes, we fail because we are not collaborative enough.

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Tips for Activating a Culture of Wellbeing in the Nonprofit Workplace

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Then, I have participants work in small groups, using a structured brainstorming process. Responsive tech support.

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It's almost time for #11NTC - See you there?

Judi Sohn

. (#11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds.

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Explore Impact Leadership at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit: Free Registration Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”