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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Clearly, what I expected to happen—bring food and people will come and eat it—was not what happened in this organization.  I called one of the Associate Executive Directors. And I knew the most important thing I had to do, in those first weeks and months, was to address this culture I had inherited. I started to grow concerned.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Her lack of access to healthy food, along with the stress associated with getting food and making ends meet, exacerbates her risk. Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Structural racism “identifies dimensions of our history and culture that have allowed privileges associated with ‘whiteness’ and disadvantages associated with ‘color’ to endure and adapt over time.” The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. 1 The structure of labor is one such “dimension of our history.”