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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Kellogg Foundation’s investments in Americans for Indian Opportunity program provided her with deep healing, leadership development, and connection to a global network of Indigenous leaders. Community leaders identified the issues the community thought most important. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Réjane Woodroffe’s leadership experience in the remote Eastern Cape of South Africa gives funders and entrepreneurs a lesson in what it means to drive change alongside your community. The local government school was a completely collapsed mud structure. Poverty is about people not knowing or owning their choices.”

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Nine others are in the process of becoming licensed. The pandemic further stressed this business model.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Our children and their families suffer the impact of generational trauma just as much as their beneficiaries do. Wraparound support: This includes adult education, leadership development, education programs, nutritional education, and mental health assistance. Now López uses her leadership and empathy to drive the business.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. It also includes new donors who are making their own wealth and embarking on their own giving journeys.

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism. “ and across the globe, @PTPASharon has a long history of intention and #entrepreneurship. “ As the founder and CEO of @PTPA, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S.

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Solving the ‘Founder’s Syndrome’ Problem in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

When that happens, it makes the transition to new leadership very hard, when they do decide to step down. The first things to do when moving into the leadership role (14:00). The 3 signs that it’s time for a founder to step away from their leadership role (28:20). It’s governed by a board of director and you, you run it.