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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. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. What, then, can be done to encourage boundary spanning?

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Nonprofit Board Management Software to Boost Success | Affnetz

Affnetz

From scheduling meetings and distributing board materials to tracking attendance and managing communication, board management software offers a solution that saves time, enhances efficiency, and improves collaboration. With software, onboarding costs are a sneaky addition to the overall price of the product.

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An Opportunity to Build, In the Crisis

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Certainly, because many nonprofits are being hamstrung by frozen or withdrawn government grants and must respond to many other policy challenges, philanthropy can play an exceedingly valuable role by investing counter-cyclically to ameliorate these headwinds. They are a counterweight to organizational wasting.

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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. Funding support for training and development enables leaders to enhance their strategic planning, financial management , fundraising and board governance skills.

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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Gary McGeough from Bristol Organizations Committed Team Players, Capable of Collaborating Effectively I seek individuals who are genuinely passionate about our mission and show a strong belief in our values and goals. That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members.

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How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Innovative finance is based on the premise that there is not enough money from governments and philanthropic organizations alone to address pressing global issues like poverty, climate change, and access to electricity and clean water. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means.

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Safe At Work: How To Lead During Election Season With Fairness and Civility

Fundraising Leadership

Read more in Take The Lead on women in politics That stress and political anxiety can lead to reduced productivity at work, extended absences from work, breakdown of collaboration across teams, and a failure to produce required outcomes and meet deadlines. 5 as government officials prepare to fend off a wave of lies about the outcome.