NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The organizational culture was one of fear, poor communication, an abundance of rules, and micromanaging. We built trust, formed relationships, and practiced healthy, open communication. Does it promote shared leadership, respect, professionalism, and open communication? The one who has poor communication skills.

Altruism and Helping 212

Altruism and Helping Leadership Children Nonprofit Leadership 212

Getting Attention

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I’ve learned the same lesson working with messaging clients: Having a scripted process for developing messages not only results in an effective message, it also increases the confidence of non-communications colleagues that they can effectively participate in the development process. What is it? Use simple words not jargon.

Participation and motivation 76

Participation and motivation Social Policy Nonprofits Culture 76

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

In a sense, the technology has given [us] the ability to communicate and have contact with each other, which is great and creates new possibilities but also new dangers. Du Bois, what do you mean to communicate by that statement, and why do you hold this position? They simply won’t adopt social policies.

Race and Ethnicity 138

Race and Ethnicity Social Policy Children Homelessness 138

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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. Today, we observe phenomena with much broader reach.

Health 130

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Organizers who have long relied on agitation and confrontation to hold institutions accountable may need to develop new skills and new allies to shift both culture and capacity. Philanthropy often conflates narrative change with messaging, then asks large communications firms to provide a “fix.”

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Governance Non-Profits Foundations 111

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

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.”

Nonprofit governance and management 111

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The framework for this agenda was deliberately communicated using security rather than equality, the latter of which is a bit abstract. But there was also a cultural shift, including a constant drive of competition and consumption that accompanied those economic policies. Equality for what? What would this let us create?

Manufacturing 144

Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Psychology Poverty 144