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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit interest in cross-sector collaboration is ramping up due to evaporating resources and increased demand for services. The Bridgespan Group reminds leaders that “cross-sector collaboration is a complicated and time-consuming process, given the complexity of the issues and range of stakeholders involved.”

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

.orgSource

Bell is an associate professor of industrial and organizational psychology at DePaul University. We look for candidates who are willing to be flexible and have the intellectual gravitas to dig into problems that we’re asked to solve every day. When the first crew of astronauts departs for Mars, Suzanne T. She studies team composition.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

Salesforce.org Partners and Staff collaborating at our last in-person Partner Summit in 2019. Terri has over 30 years of success in higher education, politics, international affairs, and nonprofits, including roles as Provost at Menlo College, Vice Provost at University of Texas at Austin, and positions on numerous boards.

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Stop! Collaborate and listen

ASU Lodestar Center

If you are a nonprofit executive then, stop and consider collaboration or a merger. In our search to realize our nonprofit’s mission, collaborations and mergers are two strategies that can maximize impact under the right conditions. Let’s break down when to consider collaboration or mergers: Collaborations.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

.orgSource

As a result, IT leaders are called on to share their wisdom with the rest of us, and they are challenged to help us collaborate in ways that are unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable. That openness is a gateway to innovation and creative problem-solving. Technology creates an expanding universe of responsibility.

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Pro Bono Week Spotlights Collaborative Nonprofit & Education Solutions

Saleforce Nonprofit

In addition to bringing together people from across these sectors, Open Source Commons equips volunteers with the spaces, tools, and training they need to collaborate and create apps, content, and programs that benefit the greater Salesforce.org community. This project has also really elevated my Salesforce knowledge and experience.”.

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Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support 

Candid

Our first collaborative effort resulted in a joint report, Philanthropy and HBCUs: Foundation funding to historically Black colleges and universities. The report highlights declines in philanthropic support for historically Black colleges and universities.

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