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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures. An entrepreneur hoping to market affordable solar finds it necessary to collaborate with architects, materials scientists, and roofing contractors. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration.

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What is Climate Psychology? An Interview with Climate Psychology Alliance’s Rebecca Weston

NonProfit Quarterly

We sat down with clinician and advocate Rebecca Weston to talk about climate psychology, movement journalism, and the responsibility of journalists and clinicians to connect to the emotional impacts of the climate crisis. What is climate psychology? That’s one big part of what climate psychology does. “

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One of the Most Important Leadership Qualities That’s Often Overlooked

NonProfit Leadership Center

A positive climate supports employees’ well-being and fosters a culture where team members feel valued. Leaders should facilitate positive energy and minimize self-sabotaging behavior to strengthen interpersonal connections and encourage collaboration.

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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

So, What is the Solution to Employee Retention? Psychological contracts are the unwritten expectations and obligations between employers and employees. Nonprofits can create strong psychological contracts by aligning organizational values with staff passions. Celebrate achievements publicly to foster a culture of appreciation.

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Global Tech Leader: Why Collaborating And Supporting Women in Tech Is Urgent  

Fundraising Leadership

Starting out as pre-med, she says she decided marketing and psychology were her strengths, and she graduated from Penn State in 2001. My message is we need to seek out peers, women below and above us to collaborate with specifically. My message is we need to seek out peers to collaborate with specifically. Naragon would agree.

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Say It: How Speaking Up About Menopause at Work Improves Culture For All

Fundraising Leadership

At the Chicago conference, Pauline Maki, professor of psychiatry, psychology and obstetrics & gynecology, as well as director of the Women’s Mental Health Research Program at the University of Illinois-Chicago, says sleep deprivation is a key side effect of menopause, and affects performance at work, as well as mental health. “

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The Real Way to Raise Money

iMarketSmart

Langley Innovations provides a range of services to its clients to help them understand the cultural underpinnings of philanthropy and the psychology of donors and, with that knowledge, to develop the most effective strategies and tactics to build broader and more lasting communities of support.