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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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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Jane Hart: Jane has been blogging for many years and writes about informal and workplace learning. Why is learning the new important?

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes.

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

With breaking news, it takes time for the full picture to emerge. To help the sector understand the emerging funding picture, Candid prioritizes collecting current, “real-time” data. This data is then made available in Candid’s Foundation Directory and Foundation Maps , as well as for use in research. foundations’ giving.

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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Using collaborative inquiry to engage stakeholders

ASU Lodestar Center

A friend of mine once gave me a card that pictured a crisis center, on fire and afloat on a river, about to fall over a cliff. The day-to-day work of nonprofit organizations is often so demanding, the big picture is often overlooked in response to the daily “crisis” of staying afloat. Applying the knowledge learned.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

When V2I’s co-founder, Fadi Al Qassar , told us about the challenges his organization was experiencing and we learned about all the positive impact that might be lost, we were keen to help in whatever way we could. Ecosystem map visually representing Venture2Impact, the system it operates within and value exchanges between key partners.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Better Together: Collaboration and.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Collaboration" is one of the big buzzwords in nonprofits now. A partnership is born.