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Building Community Through Soccer: Maigan T. Bridgette’s Story at Sporting Kansas City

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

With a passion for political science and social justice, she initially envisioned a career in law but found herself drawn to the nonprofit sector. “Each full-time associate gets 16 VTO hours,” Maigan explains. Reflecting, Maigan shares, “I thought I wanted to be a lawyer.

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Getting to Know Our Consultants: Christy Gilmour

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

on Capitol Hill, and working for a law firm in their lobbying group. I decided to return home to Chicago, where I worked for a city/county health initiative promoting community health, worked with the YMCA Metro Chicago, where I oversaw strategic planning, and then worked in patient and orthopedic advocacy for a specialty medical association.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 10 An investigation by the Associated Press found that “the system can miss live gunfire right under its microphones, or misclassify the sounds of fireworks or cars backfiring as gunshots.” It’s a strategic choice made by a set of actors.” Garance Burke et al., “How

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All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference

Fundraising Leadership

of law degrees, 47.5% Yet very few women hold the highest positions of leadership in the academic, legal, corporate or political spheres.” When she decided to stop practicing law to take care of her autistic son, the actress and producer Debbie Allen hired her to lead and scale up her dance academy. politics.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

She established her own government relations firm in 1998 and has worked as a consultant and contract lobbyist for large national nonprofits, state nonprofit associations, and nonprofits in her community. Though she started her career in the private sector, she quickly found her heart drawing her to use her talents in the nonprofit sector.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

She established her own government relations firm in 1998 and has worked as a consultant and contract lobbyist for large national nonprofits, state nonprofit associations, and nonprofits in her community. Though she started her career in the private sector, she quickly found her heart drawing her to use her talents in the nonprofit sector.