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Connecting Advocacy and Data to Advance Collective Goals
Last year, Independent Sector published research on how advocacy by the nonprofit sector has evolved over the last 25 years, and specifically, how it has sever…
Designing to Inspire Community Joy and Connection
How can inclusive design spur community connections and build stronger partnerships in the process?During the COVID pandemic, the Van Alen Institute and the Ur…
How Practicing Futurism Can Strengthen Your Collaborative Strategy
“The future doesn’t happen to us. We create it with the decisions that we make today. What the future needs and deserves is for each of us to be smart about wh…
Advancing Equity in Times of Polarization and Division
Without proactively removing the structures and systems that have contributed to inequity, place-based collaboratives can not make a meaningful impact on the l…
The Necessary Skills to Navigate Change
Navigating and managing change is key to a collaborative’s journey, but it’s also one of the most challenging as each partner’s relationship, personal history,…
For Philanthropy to Succeed, All Strategies Must Address Disability
“There is no issue in the social justice space that we will ever be able to remedy as long as disability is not at the table.” – Rebecca Cokley, Program Office…