innovation & research

The Innovation and Research center creates tools to deliberately cultivate the capacity of members to innovate. The center also provides training for the effective incorporation of strategies and planning processes to help members catalyze their responses to challenges.

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ADNN establishes partnerships with universities, the public and private sectors to develop, evaluate the efficacy of, and implement solutions to challenges.

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Critical to building successful innovations for non-profits are micro interactions and macro interactions of four interdependent components: optimizing impact, relationship building, communication and power dynamics.