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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

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When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Funder collaboration need not be burdensome, nor does it require perfect alignment. These informal collaborations usually consist of two to six foundations but can encompass a dozen or more.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. More specifically, datamaking is an action whereby we transform information into data so that data can contribute to knowledge.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

However, in the dynamic landscape of contemporary social change, there is a growing recognition of the need to evolve from this conventional approach toward a more collaborative and inclusive model—one grounded in partnership. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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Going Beyond the Dollar: The Community Leadership Role of Foundations

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Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Collective leadership is a collaborative approach that embraces shared decision-making, participation, and the collective wisdom of diverse perspectives.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. Oversight—Will the organization’s staff facilitate committee meetings, or will the committee elect a chair/co-chairs?

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The Quick Guide to Nonprofit Board Responsibilities

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Your board should also help foster collaboration between board members and staff. This collaboration helps create a unified front that drives your organization forward. Obedience The duty of obedience requires your board members to adhere to your organization’s mission, bylaws, and policies.

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