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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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Webinar: Creating a Legacy Giving Program in 5 Simple Steps

DipJar

Legacy giving programs can feel overwhelming, but when you know the step-by-step process of how to create one from scratch or grow the one you have, it’s easier than you think. You’ll leave with action items to work on immediately to jumpstart your program.

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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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Elevating Events: The Role of the Entertainment & Program Chair

Greater Giving

When it comes to organizing a successful event, one of the key players on your event committee is the Entertainment & Program Chair. The Entertainment & Program Chair’s Job Description Determining and Contracting Entertainment At the heart of every memorable event is its entertainment factor.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. Nancy and Kristine’s partner organizations certainly derived benefits from their collaboration.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

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Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

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The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.