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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. This collaboration improves customer service, events, and user-friendliness across platforms and has a significant impact on member satisfaction.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Make successful collaboration part of performance standards.

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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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Defining and assessing impact is rarely simple but taking a collaborative grantmaking approach can help you identify the real learnings and center the stakeholder to create a solution that actually drives results. Isn’t it more of a success if potential solutions can be tested and co-created with stakeholders to deliver the greatest benefit?

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How to increase collaboration between your association’s chapters

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But a healthy chapter program requires strong, ongoing collaboration between your association’s headquarters and chapters. The foundation of successful collaboration is a strong relationship. Strong collaboration requires more than just ad hoc communications. Develop relationships. Spend time with your chapter leaders.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

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To become a digital business everyone in the organization must use their IT tools to collaborate. Executives who defer this responsibility convey the idea that digital thinking and collaboration are not a priority. After you’ve identified the people to set collaboration in motion, give them a runway for success.

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Join us in St. Louis for the National VOAD Conference!

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Gateway to Collaboration is the conference’s theme, something that's central to all that we have worked to support over the past decades. Visionlink offers the only disaster solutions that are both pre-built and completely configurable--and designed for collaboration and data exchange from the ground up.

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