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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

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During 2020, Kristine and her staff contacted every association member to offer support and an opportunity to share their concerns. There were multiple areas where collaboration helped to ease the hardship. To help them decompress, we built online opportunities to come together, share, and relax. How are you doing?

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Mastering The Art Of Idea Generation And Sharing

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Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. Do you have one in place? But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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How Grantmakers Can Improve Collaboration Through Empathy and Experimentation

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Do you know the one thing that nearly every foundation representative shared? 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”? Collaboration in a Crisis.

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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. In most cases, there are rarely ways to share real-time learning.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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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. On the other hand, in Madison, where we didn’t have a Kitchen Cabinet, collaboration on reopening was much more challenging. Brent describes the organization this way. “We

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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You can build more collaborative teams. There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Promote data sharing across the organization, and reward people for effectively using new analytic tools.

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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.