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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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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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Also, most of the foundations I talked to found it difficult to collaborate with other foundations. From this learning, I was left with the question, “How can collaborations thrive when everyone feels that they are “unique”? The key, I’ve found, is approaching collaboration with empathy and testing your assumptions.

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Collaborative Grantmaking: Rethinking How to Assess Impact

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These rigid structures also mean that we wait for results (even if it’s in 6-to-12-month pilot studies), or we copy and paste best practices from other communities based on the assumption that what works in one place will work in another. Move Past Promises to Deliver Collaborative Impact.

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

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They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns. That’s why Candid’s invitation to share data in one place is compelling. They amplified the voices and perspectives of women of color leaders on this platform and in their webinars.

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. Our organization had been pretty tall and top-heavy. The success is shared.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

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Because we offer expert training and technical assistance across the continuum of sexual violence prevention and response (as well as to a wide variety of professions in both nonprofit and public service systems), having so many advisory committees ensures that we are collaborating with people working in all aspects of the sexual violence field.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. Most groups navigated the unusual challenges and got work done. We produced virtual events–a first for many.

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