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Your journey to making an impact starts here! With insightful articles, interesting interviews, free handbooks and webinars, we hope to give you the final push to help you make the world a better place.
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Insights
Discover interesting tips and tricks on the nonprofit sector with our thoughtful articles!
How to better defend an original idea
In last week’s blog, we discussed how to unchain your creative self and generate novel ideas to better achieve your goals and your organization’s mission. Now the question is, how do you defend original ideas in a system that often doesn’t welcome novelty or doesn’t understand it?
Originality is a competitive advantage for nonprofits too!
Through a series of four articles, we explore how triggering and nurturing a culture of originality will help you achieve better results, as a social purpose organization, as a team and as an individual.
How to make the best of summer as a fundraiser
It is summer time! Some colleagues are off for a well-deserved holiday, while you intend to hold the fort for a month or two. Here are some ideas about how to best spend your summer as a fundraiser.
Exploring Innovative Financing Models
In this article, we explore two “Innovative Financing Models”, cash transfers and social franchising, through Partos recently created Community of Practice.
How to handle internal negotiations
The toughest negotiations are often not those with external partners or donors but with colleagues inside the organization. How can negotiation theory help you handle internal challenges?
Overcoming the barrier of unsolicited proposals
Though most foundations are not open to unsolicited proposals, the right research can get you passed that barrier. With 3 tips, we tell you how to make the impossible possible!
Joke from Max Foundation talks about impact
As part of the impact interview series, we spoke to Joke le Poole, CEO of Max Foundation. This Dutch charity works with their heart and head in order to maximize their desired impact: saving as many children’s lives as possible.
3 Reasons to enter the US funding market
This week I heard and read some of the latest US reports and singled out three facts that explain why so many international nonprofits are entering the US funding market. And why you should consider this approach as well!
How to build strategic partnerships
Partnerships are the bread and butter of nonprofits. They are an indispensable part of international development cooperation. This blog post gives you insights on how to better negotiate partnerships.
Sjir from Founders Pledge talks about impact
As part of the impact interview series, we discussed with Sjir Hoeijmakers, Researcher at Founders Pledge. This British non-profit organization helps donors give more effectively to charity through research and recommendation.
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