Real Collaboration: A Guide for Grantmakers

Looks at the role of the grantmaker in the promotion and support of inter-organizational collaboration. Makes recommendations on how foundation program officers can promote a more effective use of collaboration among grantees

In Search of Strategic Solutions: A Funders Briefing on Nonprofit Strategic Restructuring

Analyzes the options and benefits of nonprofit strategic restructuring. Examines the pressures that lead nonprofits to consider strategic restructuring, and the conditions that lead to, or prevent, successful results. Includes recommendations

Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector

This report highlights five key trends and how their coming together will shape the social sector of the future. Based on extensive review of existing research and in-depth interviews with thought leaders and nonprofit leaders and activists, it explores the trends (Demographic Shifts; Technological Advances; Networks Enabling Work to be Organized in New Ways; Rising Interest in Civic Engagement and Volunteerism; and Blurring of Sector Boundaries) and looks at the ways nonprofits can successfully navigate the changes. The monograph is by La Piana Consulting, a national firm dedicated to strengthening nonprofits and foundations

Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide

Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats, species, and functional groups. Understanding how multiple taxa respond to urbanisation globally is essential to promote and conserve biodiversity in cities. Using a dataset encompassing six terrestrial faunal taxa (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, carabid beetles and reptiles) across 379 cities on 6 continents, we show that urbanisation produces taxon-specific changes in trait composition, with traits related to reproductive strategy showing the strongest response. Our findings suggest that urbanisation results in four trait syndromes (mobile generalists, site specialists, central place foragers, and mobile specialists), with resources associated with reproduction and diet likely driving patterns in traits associated with mobility and body size. Functional diversity measures showed varied responses, leading to shifts in trait space likely driven by critical resource distribution and abundance, and taxon-specific trait syndromes. Maximising opportunities to support taxa with different urban trait syndromes should be pivotal in conservation and management programmes within and among cities. This will reduce the likelihood of biotic homogenisation and helps ensure that urban environments have the capacity to respond to future challenges. These actions are critical to reframe the role of cities in global biodiversity loss.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Trends in template/fragment-free protein structure prediction

Predicting the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a long-standing unsolved problem in computational biology. Its solution would be of both fundamental and practical importance as the gap between the number of known sequences and the number of experimentally solved structures widens rapidly. Currently, the most successful approaches are based on fragment/template reassembly. Lacking progress in template-free structure prediction calls for novel ideas and approaches. This article reviews trends in the development of physical and specific knowledge-based energy functions as well as sampling techniques for fragment-free structure prediction. Recent physical- and knowledge-based studies demonstrated that it is possible to sample and predict highly accurate protein structures without borrowing native fragments from known protein structures. These emerging approaches with fully flexible sampling have the potential to move the field forward

Beyond Collaboration: Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations

Looks at the mergers and partnerships that allow organizations to share resources and expertise within the nonprofit sector. Includes strategies for encouraging nonprofits to undertake activities such as mergers, consolidations, and joint ventures

Le théâtre antique entre France et Allemagne (XIXe-XXe siècles)

Au XIXe et au XXe siècle, le théâtre antique a été l'objet d'une vive rivalité mais aussi un terrain d'échanges fructueux entre la France et l'Allemagne. Qu'il s'agisse de traduction, d'interprétation ou de représentation, le rapport des Français au répertoire antique et plus précisément à la tragédie grecque s'est souvent trouvé médiatisé par l'Allemagne, et réciproquement, dans une relation triangulaire faite de défiance et de fascination, largement surdéterminée par les querelles esthétiques et les conflits politiques qui ont jalonné l'histoire des deux pays. Cet ouvrage collectif se propose de revenir sur ce dialogue franco-allemand et d'en éclairer les enjeux, depuis les premiers échanges qui remontent à l'orée du XIXe siècle - à l'occasion des ruptures décisives que furent la traduction d'Eschyle par Humboldt, celle de Sophocle par Hölderlin, ou encore la création d'Antigone à Postdam en 1841, première mise en scène d'une tragédie grecque - jusqu'aux débats contemporains, concernant notamment la redéfinition du rôle des universitaires dans le processus de réception. Réunissant treize contributions de spécialistes venus d'horizons divers (hellénistes, germanistes, comparatistes, historiens du théâtre, traducteurs et musicologues), il propose une approche décloisonnée et interdisciplinaire du théâtre antique et de sa traduction. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux chercheurs (historiens du théâtre, de la traduction, philologues, comparatistes) et aux étudiants, mais il peut également intéresser tout public curieux du théâtre antique et de l'histoire de sa réception