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

NonProfit Leadership Center

” Rhonda Flowers, Senior Director of The Collaborative, The Skills Center “Being a professional of color and a woman has given me a greater sense of empathy and clearer understanding of the leadership challenges minorities often face. .” There’s so much to do, and I would like to make a difference.”

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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. Moreover, by replacing an application-based process with a nominations process, and by funding a cohort of recipients, they are able to replace a competitive experience with a collaborative one.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A further example is the new Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur (Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South) , a collaboration of funders and intermediaries based in the Global South focused on directing resources to local grassroots organizations.

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

Fund development is, first, organizational development…. It’s a big job, serving as a development officer. Bigger than far too many development officers (or their bosses and boards) think. You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To allow community organizers and community priorities to lead the way, BHC planning meetings became a node for resident-led organizations to connect, build relationships, access resources, and collaboratively shape campaigns and initiatives around community-defined priorities.

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2022 Nonprofit Leadership Conference Breakout Speakers & Sessions

NonProfit Leadership Center

During this executive exchange designed to spark collaboration and communication, you can choose to participate in lightly facilitated conversation or open networking time with your peers. As an award-winning leader, her P.R.A.I.S.E. Culture and P.R.A.I.S.E. Strategy frameworks align culture with strategy to achieve measurable results.