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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tirza Gapp & Jennifer Howard-Grenville When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.

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Communicating With Confidence: 5 Tips to Communicate With Groups Effectively

NonProfit Leadership Center

Healthy team dynamics promote a more collaborative workplace, a healthier culture, and more productive teamwork. Promote a positive team culture. Language and culture are interconnected. Communication becomes more complex as cultural diversity increases, but this is NOT a bad thing! Avoid ethnocentrism.

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Making the Case for Training & Development from Funders: 6 Keys to Nonprofit Growth

NonProfit Leadership Center

By investing in training, organizations can improve their efficiency, productivity and performance — and retain their best people. READ NEXT: Beyond Employee Training: How to Create a Learning Culture 2. To address emerging challenges and seize new opportunities, organizations must foster a culture of innovation and adaptability.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

The cultural sector is actively seeking alternatives to business-as-usual. This article concludes the series, “ Remember the Future: Culture and Systems Change ,” which is co-produced by Art.coop and NPQ. And, of course, providing for people’s artistic and cultural needs is a core part of building a thriving community economy as well.

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Get CALM: M is for Methodical

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

All this week, we are taking a look at what it means to be a CALM Communications Director ( Collaborative , Agile , Logical , and Methodical). I hear from so many nonprofit communications directors who are working in nonprofits with mediocre management cultures. Find a personal productivity system that works for you.

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Building a culture of nonprofit compliance at Candid

Candid

In 2023, Candid completed our first external SOC 2 audit, a collaborative effort across our administrative teams. In this blog, I’ll share lessons learned from our SOC 2 audit to help you build a culture of nonprofit compliance. And that’s what building a culture of compliance is all about. At Candid, we can relate.

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