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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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No matter how expertly executed, switching roles and responsibilities is disruptive. You can take baby steps and evaluate which strategies are successful and which are not. At Zappos, this arrangement is designed to reflect the company’s values and culture. Happiness is at the core of Zappos culture. Clarify Roles.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

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Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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Data Governance: The Key to Strategic Planning

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No matter the scale of your organization, an effective data governance framework is necessary to communicate your impact clearly to grantmakers and donors alike. More importantly, it creates a culture of security to safeguard their trust. They each play a role as collectors of information and stewards of data security.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. Guide to building evaluation capacity.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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I am still evaluating the lessons learned. Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support. I can’t remember a time when the cultural, political, and economic environment was fraught with so much uncertainty. The pandemic was a wormhole.

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Why your nonprofit must invest in outcome measurement and a culture of innovation

ASU Lodestar Center

Services that were once provided primarily by the government have slowly shifted to the nonprofit sector to reduce government spending. One CEO of a local behavioral health and human service organization found value in program evaluation measures in his organization where there was no prior initiative to evaluate programs.

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Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance)

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In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Ignoring polarizing social justice issues can even increase unconscious biases that could wreak havoc on your culture.”