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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Simply put, social change requires social collaboration. What, then, can be done to encourage boundary spanning?

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The Art of Communications Collaborations

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

It made it clear how vital a focus on collaboration is, especially when we’re all trying to do a lot with a little in the nonprofit world. We need to align our strategies, so we’re not just busy but actually productive and impactful. All of this makes collaborations smoother, more transparent, and more fruitful.

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How ‘Productizing’ Innovative Finance Hurts Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But this proliferation highlights a troubling trend: The “productization” of innovative finance for development, which attempts to create and market new, standardized financial products like the commercial finance sector. Productization makes the product the end instead of a means.

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5 Must-Have Productivity Software Products Nonprofits Need to Be Effective in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. There has never been a better time to make document management and collaboration a priority.

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Video Content Marketing: Using Product Videos to Increase Engagement in Dropshipping

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Video Content Marketing: Using Product Videos to Increase Engagement in Dropshipping If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. In dropshipping, where you don’t physically have the product on hand, showcasing it through video can make a huge difference.

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Housing Justice and Systems Change Through a Funder Collaborative

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Many of FHO’s founders were part of the growing movement toward funder collaboratives as a way to have more efficiency, impact, and engagement with peers and practitioners. A 2021 Bridgespan Group survey of 100 funder collaboratives found that nearly three-fourths had been formed since 2010, and nearly half since 2015.

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Newsletter: How to Use ChatGPT to Write Partnership Outreach Emails ; Albertsons Launches First Private Label Cause Product ; Should We Give People Money Before Disaster Strikes?

Selfish Giving

Here's what I got back from ChatGPT: Email Subject Line: Unite for a Cause: Ignite Your Brand with Friends of Minuteman National Park Dear [Company Name], I am reaching out today to present an exciting opportunity that aligns perfectly with your company's values and objectives. The April Fools stunt that turned into a real product.⌚️