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Soft Skills Support Hard Leadership Challenges

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What can we do to ensure they have the skills to understand a challenging landscape and make the wise decisions needed for success? Providing personal support, fosters a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency.” An open mind and a collaborative spirit are also important. Ethics is another essential component.

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Top Ten Data Challenges (And Solutions) for Associations

Association Analytics

Here are the top 10 data challenges associations like yours are running into – and solutions on how to overcome them. 10: Your Data Volume and Complexity Challenge : If you’re overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data your association collects, you’re certainly not alone. Solution : Solve this challenge by creating a data capture policy.

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Challenging Conversations—Tackling Risk

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Adding to the complication, unless you are currently facing a challenge, risk is abstract. These are internal challenges that might be related to culture, human resources, or operations. Or that the director who is championing a lucrative collaboration with a corporate partner is also on that organization’s board.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

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. My experience with Candid reinforced the notion that the best work gets done when the board and staff collaborate closely.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

Saleforce Nonprofit

These days, persistent societal challenges are on the rise: hunger, mental health issues, contagious disease, conflict, chronic inequality, and the climate crisis. Together Against Hunger To address this growing challenge, leading organizations have come together to fight against hunger. Heber Brown , and Isobel Coleman.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Nancy MacRae, CEO at the Emergency Nurses Association and Kristine Hillmer, President and CEO of the Wisconsin Restaurant Association , steered their members through the challenge. Civic and government partners played pivotal roles in their ability to provide that support.

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A New Era for Foundation Collaboration

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In the past, many foundations viewed collaboration as a speed bump. Collaborations, after all, take time. But at a time when many foundations are looking for creative ways to address the overlapping crises of COVID-19, racial injustice, and climate change, they are viewing collaboration much differently. Why Collaborate?