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23 Leaders Selected for 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,

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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As social change leaders, you are responsible for fostering a culture of growth and development within the organization, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills to drive the organization forward. How could you implement a cross-organizational initiative knowing that everyone is focused on their own priorities?

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It can mean supporting networking and collaboration across local entities rather than competitive funding mechanisms. For foundations and individuals who are reluctant to develop a national presence in the places where they are funding activities, creating an effective constellation of local organizations is especially difficult.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. Building power requires strategic collaboration among diverse organizations.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It now includes my organization, Lever for Change, as well as ICONIQ Impact, Lego Foundation, Yield Giving, Pivotal Ventures, W. Kellogg Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. We need to grow this group further—not to the exclusion of other types of philanthropy, but to complement it.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission. These members will be connected through peer networks, with opportunities to learn, gain resources, collaborate, and form stronger relationships with funders, government leaders, and business affiliate members.