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How Funder Collaboratives Are Supporting Proximate Organizations in Africa

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Atti Worku , Degan Ali & David Bowermaster Philanthropic collaboratives are growing in popularity in Africa and share many similarities with their global peers, but they also have their own distinguishing traits. For one thing, African collaboratives tend to be underfunded relative to collaboratives in other parts of the world.

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Education Transformation Against All Odds

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In particular, a devastating economic and institutional meltdown that began in 2019 has taken a huge toll on schools and on education in the country. Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance.

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Why Fashion Education Needs to Care About Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Why have fashion education programs been slow to adapt? The Fashion Education Landscape Fashion education has historically emphasized the development of individual creativity and technical mastery. However, this focus on creative skills has led to a significant gap in sustainability education.

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Event Ideas to Strengthen Donor-Beneficiary Relationships

Ann Green

Unlike more structured events, golf tournaments provide plenty of downtime between holes and during post-golf activities like a cocktail hour, reception, or banquet, which provides an organic interaction between donors, beneficiaries, volunteers, and staff. Consider hands-on workshops where beneficiaries and donors collaborate.

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5 Signs Your Employees are Burned Out + What to Do About It

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

They arent actively participating or taking initiative. Next Steps To reinspire employees and improve active participation, consider implementing these strategies: Build a safe space for sharing ideas. Ask managers to practice active listening and acknowledge employees who share their thoughts, no matter how small.

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Takeaways from #GivingTuesday: Lessons Learned on a Collaborative Project

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Guest Post by Sean King of Youth Education in the Arts (YEA!). To provide context to the project, Allentown, PA, is the home to nearly $1 billion of redevelopment and seven small to medium sized arts organizations that until very recently had not done many collaborative projects. Activity Produces Results. Online and Off.

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5 Best Practices for Nonprofit Employee Onboarding

Ann Green

Collaborative Learning: Turn onboarding from a solo journey into a social experience through discussion forums, leaderboards, and cohort-based learning sessions. Plus, you can use your nonprofits LMS to streamline many other processes and activities, including upskilling employees, onboarding volunteers, and educating board members.