Collaboration Part 2: Best Practices and the Ingredients for Success

When you decide to move forward with a collaboration, you'll want to cultivate and adopt a set of best practices. Find out the top ten.

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Collaboration: 4 Strategies for Joining Forces, Part 1

Does your organization partner or collaborate with other organizations? If so, have you found these alliances to be exhilarating or exasperating? If you don’t, are you curious about whether collaborating might be a wise approach? This is the first in a three-part series on nonprofit collaboration.

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Know your audiences

Your organization likely has a database, an email list, or at the very least a big spreadsheet of names and addresses. How much do you really know about these individuals? Find out the value of segmenting and really understanding your customers, donors, and broader audiences.

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How expensive is that pro bono service?

It sounds like a dream to find someone to do something your organization needs but that you don’t want to pay for. I’m sure there are plenty of success stories. But there’s a flip side.

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Happy New (Fiscal) Year! Start with Strength

Now more than ever, no matter what your role is in an organization, prioritizing time to reflect, evaluate, recalibrate, and even let go of activities and priorities is essential. The pace of life, along with the sheer quantity of tasks and information, has the great potential to keep us distracted. Here's checklist to help you launch the new year with strength and calm.

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