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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? Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. You can do it.

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Anatomy of a successful capital campaign committee meeting

Candid

This means they also require plenty of clear communication and collaboration. The nature of capital campaign committee structures. Some committee members may only attend a few meetings, while others may participate through an entire phase of the campaign. This builds a standard structure into the process from the start.

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How to Tackle Content Migration with Ease

Forum One

Once the website is built—the scaffolding, structure, and design—your content is what brings it to life. It often entails rethinking how you want to communicate about your organization in the new structure and style you’re pursuing with your redesign project. Head into this phase with a marathon mindset.

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

Bloomerang

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Be open to collaborating on programs, events, and funding opportunities with other local organizations that serve the same or complementary constituencies. Organized recordkeeping is key.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

This is the final post in our series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we look at determining the value of creating a collaboration community. The second part explores challenges in facilitating collaboration. This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex.

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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure? Question: Why is collaboration in the workplace not always a good thing? Higgins : Collaboration for collaboration’s sake leads to regression to the mean, the lowest common denominator likely to upset the least amount of people. Am I a creator or an executor?

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3 Steps to Write a Stellar Nonprofit Development Plan

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Remember how important it is that all members of your team collaborate. This way, everyone in your organization will be on the same page about what needs to be done during the fundraising phase of your development plan. Even if you think this phase could waste potential time in the future, proper communication often pays off tenfold.

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