Is Strategic Friction Slowing You Down? To increase your strategic momentum, you need to eliminate strategic friction. There’s nothing like a global catastrophe to jolt philanthropy into increasing its speed. Donors, foundations, and corporations quickly responded to the pandemic by getting money out the door faster, reducing or eliminating application and reporting processes, removing funding […]
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Here are 8 ways you might be contributing to this problem! A serious but largely overlooked problem in philanthropy is feeling overwhelmed. As odd as it seems, overwhelm often comes more from our minds than from the physical world. That is, we may indeed have a boatload of tasks to take care of, but how
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Don’t panic, you got this! There are 84 working days until the end of the year. Take away three weeks for end-of-year holidays and other vacation days, that’s only 69 days remaining to accomplish those goals you set earlier this year! But before you start to panic, I want to reassure you: You got this!
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If you want to quickly improve your philanthropy, start by asking yourself these 10 questions. It’s hard to imagine something more inspiring related to collective learning and improvement than research and development teams working with university data scientists to predict COVID-19 hot spots and then placing clinical trials in those places to speed the creation
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You can quickly shift from planning to doing by following these four easy steps. Philanthropy focuses a lot of time and brainpower on the how-to of strategic planning and very little on practical implementation. And yet, if not implemented effectively all your planning will waste time and resources. Change is hard work. So, while
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Long before the pandemic hit, it was clear philanthropy needed an overhaul. But the health and economic crisis, combined with a national racial reckoning, forced grant makers’ hands. Foundations largely rose to the challenge by speeding up their grant making, increasing flexibility, and reducing funding restrictions. But now it appears those changes may be short lived. In the most
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