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Seven solutions for nonprofits to effectively collaborate with stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

Collaboration is a loaded word. Why should a nonprofit collaborate with their community or stakeholders? Where does a nonprofit begin the process of collaboration? How can an organization collaborate with stakeholders successfully? Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. It outlines best practices and specific activities that funders can employ to safeguard and support their participatory grantmaking decision makers.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

In a survey of the charitable community through the Independent Sector (PDF), nonprofit professionals admitted that they need more engagement with their stakeholders. However, in " Programs Aren’t Everything ," investing in beneficiaries increases their sense of self, take ownership of their needs, and become collaborators to the solution.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

Museum 2.0

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Put Down the Clipboard:Visitor Feedback as Participatory Activity

Museum 2.0

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. We got more feedback. We got intriguing feedback.