Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Encouraging vulnerability In my work as a facilitator of the Stanford Graduate School of Businesss popular organizational behavior elective, Interpersonal Dynamics (nicknamed touchy feely) we encourage MBA students to experiment with sharing vulnerability in small groups of peers. The right level of sharing will depend from person to person.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

What if the key to resilience lies not just in raising funds but in building a stronger community of stakeholders? Over my last eight years working in marketing in the nonprofit sector, its become clear to me community isnt just about stewarding your donors. What better way to break through all the digital noise?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Do you feel stuck navigating office politics, micromanagement, or being overlooked at work? Through real-life stories and research-backed strategies, she breaks down 10 key conversations that help you build influence, set boundaries, and operate from a position of power. Its about taking control of your own work experience.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. People remember who made their work easier, and these connections often bloom into collaborative projects that perfectly match your capabilities. One of the requirements was to complete a two-month stint working in the operating room.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Taken together, these data points make it clear: your website can play a significant role in building meaningful, long-term supporter relationships. Preparing to Work with a Nonprofit Design Agency Before you hand off your project to a design agency, it helps to put your own ducks in a row.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. To prepare for an uncertain future, begin building competence in areas where people remain the experts. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. It’s an ongoing process that should keep membership and marketing teams working together routinely. Data is an important connector.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

For those struggling to find the time or knowledge to get started, building out a lightweight framework can help combat both those obstacles. Choose a few to start with and build from there. Working in phases will help keep you and your team accountable and avoid getting overwhelmed. Don’t strive for perfection.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Too many of us feel unseen, undervalued, and unhappy at work. But fitting in at work? Work is not familyits a professional environment where people collaborate to achieve shared goals. When belonging feels fragile, our bodies stay on high alert, making it harder to focus, collaborate, and bring our best selves to work.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

These are tips to help them make the journey toward collaboration. Integrate Strategy There are plenty of incentives for collaboration. Integrated planning gives departments, like membership and marketing, a format for collaboration on agendas and goals. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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.orgSource

MARCH 11, 2024

Bell’s work will play a large role in their success. Bell is researching what mix of personalities is most likely to work effectively together. Although you’re probably not recruiting a team for an extreme experience, it can be helpful to begin thinking about team building from Bell’s perspective. “A

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

But in cities with historic buildings that predate modern accessibility standards by decades or even centuries, those challenges are even further amplified. In a recent study, 70% of disabled people surveyed said theyve shown up to a building only to realize they couldnt get inside. Thorleifssons work is beginning to change this.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Remote work was the pandemic’s big gift to employees. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. walk, remote work came with some not-so-fun trade-offs. Social skills— along with empathy, help teams successfully collaborate to get work done. 78% would work longer hours for a more empathetic company.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders. When leaders work at cross-purposes with other leaders, it signals to those they lead to put their own agendas first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2025

Relying solely on generative AI to create messaging means forfeiting the work and creativity required to forge real relationships. Building Genuine Relationships Donor relationships are built on trust and connection, which AI cannot replicate.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A strong, involved board can transform an organization and take its work to new heights. Staff who collaborate with board members to find the unique strengths and connections of each person are enriching their organization. Mary’s Pence funds women-led organizations and groups working for social change in the U.S.,

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? We were working on a system selection and installation with a recently promoted IT manager. The MBTI is based on the work of Isabel Briggs-Myers and her daughter.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

They established national AI committees and working groups that spanned learning and development experts, local chapter leaders, and technological advisors (often Googlers). The most important question Project Evident asks when working with nonprofits on AI adoption is 'Why AI?'"

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Many of us want to get promoted at work, but dont often stop to consider what that means. Moving into the executive ranks often means leading the very people you once worked alongside. In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

This week, sparked by that moment, Mesfin and his colleagues have launched Breaking Bias, a collaboration with stock image firm Pocstock , and more than 22 agency partners. As more and more marketers utilize AI to create content, its crucial to build and maintain data sets that represent reality as accurately as possible. About 9.6%

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

They wanted a building with character that was conducive to creative work, and found it within a 25,000 square feet space at 55 Washington Street in Brooklyns Dumbo neighborhood, where about 70 workers will move in later this year. He saw potential for a similar transformation and purchased a number of buildings in 1981.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

And while Gen Z is demanding more fairness, structure, and transparency from their workplaces, the truth is: building better leadership isnt just a job for managers. Know the difference between bad leadership and imperfect leadership Theres a big difference between a truly toxic work environment and a flawed or frustrating one.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As leaders of Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, we came together with a shared goal: to explore whether our organizations, through collaboration, could better understand the deeper patterns driving charitable giving by leveraging our collective data sets. Too often, data on individual and institutional giving remains siloed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2023

How NOT to use social media Before you start planning your social media for Giving Tuesday , it’s important to know what’s not working. To build that connection, your graphics need to tell a story. Combine your efforts with other nonprofits and local leaders through content collaborations to foster change within your community.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2025

Do we encourage cross-functional collaboration between teams? Build a Future-Ready Workforce What We Learned Associations must invest in reskilling and upskilling their teams to meet the demands of digital transformation, AI, and data analytics. Are we prepared for disruption , with scenario planning and adaptive strategies?

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

With competition for skilled professionals rising and work environments shifting, finding and keeping great talent takes more than just passion. Crafting a Compelling Employer Brand People want to work where they know theyll make a difference. When candidates see the real-world impact of your work, theyll want to be part of it.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

20 , offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. Ive conducted some myself, including work on how trust is essential for leaders in cross-cultural business environments. Empowerment is a key strategy in building trust. Promote collaboration.

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Candid

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The way we work is rapidly evolving amid societal and industry changes in a post-pandemic world. One shift I’m seeing is the rise of those I call the “Autonomists”—highly skilled professionals who are opting out of traditional employment structures in favor of independent, project-based work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By Annisa Wanat , an independent consultant who works to strengthen the capacity of mission-driven organizations to achieve their goals more strategically by providing customized solutions in leadership, management, and communications. 4) Collaborate Outside of Scheduled Meetings. 1) Demonstrate Transparency. 5) Display Tech Savvy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2025

Rushed pre-work : High-quality planning sessions start with pre-work that takes time to create and time to complete. Whether youre envisioning a rustic lodge, a serene retreat center, or a modern conference space, booking early ensures youll have options that inspire creativity and collaboration. This also builds buy-in.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University. NVIDIA researchers and engineers also collaborated closely on AI scaling and optimization.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, collaboration and cooperation are essential for achieving your goals. Let’s walk through four basic steps to building productive community partnerships to bolster your mission. You can tailor your collaborations with partners to suit your organization’s specific needs and goals. Identify your needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The digital team works hard to produce social content that balances sharing stories of the people they serve, the impact of their work, and the generosity of their supporters. That’s because posts about collaboration – especially multi-partner or cross-country engagement – achieve a variety of goals from the organization’s perspective.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The nonprofit animal advocacy organization has officially rebranded as the Humane World for Animals to better communicate its existing, broader work. Building a brand to communicate international advocacy The rebrand also follows existing international coordination among its former country- and region-based entities.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

It begs the question: Should empathy ever be put aside at work, or should we be doubling down on it? When we define empathy too narrowly, we overlook its power to build resilient, high-performing teams and boost engagement, collaboration, and innovation. Experts now cite loneliness as a health epidemic.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Over a lifetime, we spend approximately 90,000 hours working. Maybe one reason people aren’t happy at work is because they don’t expect to find happiness there. When I Googled “How to create joy at work” these are a few of the best ideas I found. There’s a reason they call it work. Let’s make joy a priority.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Board members want and need meaningful work tied to the mission. That means they have to have time to commit first, then the skills we need — not all organizations need the same skills — and then the follow-through to get the work done independently. That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members.

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