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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Beyond Survival: Post-Disruption Nonprofit Culture Strategy

Bloomerang

This nonprofit culture strategy post is part 3 in a 3-part series. Let’s move now to the third and final pillar: nonprofit culture strategy. . Pillar #3—No More Othering: Your Nonprofit Culture Strategy in 2021 and Beyond. Your culture will make or break fundraising success, especially over the long term.

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UNESCO World Heritage Designation in Ohio Honors Indigenous Culture

NonProfit Quarterly

Wallace spoke before a crowd gathered at the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Chillicothe, OH. The dedication of eight locations related to the ancient Indigenous Hopewell culture was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) as World Heritage sites. The occasion?

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A Reality Check for Nonprofit Co-Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

At Wellspring, we have seen gifted, deeply committed, and mission-oriented co-leaders become misaligned on fundamental questions of strategy or organizational culture, ultimately reaching a place where each leader feels unable to compromise.

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Ancient, Powerful, and Particularly Feminine: Righting Our Relationship with Mama Earth

NonProfit Quarterly

Ubuntu as Art Nearly two years later, on Earth Day 2024, our Cultural Arts Circle excitedly announced 40 winners for the Ubuntu Climate Initiatives inaugural Climate Arts and Storytelling Showcase. We are living in a patriarchal system that prioritizes power, profit, and a hypercompetitive culture that overvalues individualism.

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Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The move to a co-leadership model has significant implications for organizational health and culture. Particularly with the fragile ecosystem that is organizational culture, leadership transition should not be abrupt, nor imposed from the outside, nor for the sake of experimentation itself.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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