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Move, Stay, or Pivot? Uncertain Times Make Career Choices Different For Many

Fundraising Leadership

The current economic climate is complicating the career paths of millions due to the factors of unpredictable layoffs, hiring freezes, pay reductions, and a general fear of culture changes and imposed, sudden and unforseeable actions. But it is remarkably different from the Great Resignation sparked by COVID-19.

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SSIR’s 2023 Social Innovation Reading List

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Liptrap “While Dorff admits he is ‘inspired’ by the social-entrepreneurship movement, he has no illusions about the benefit corporation. Becoming a Public Benefit Corporation: Express Your Values, Energize Stakeholders, Make the World a Better Place by Michael B. Dorff, reviewed by J.

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Starting With the State

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The problem in many settings isn’t merely that elected leaders are enacting self-serving or misguided policies (though there is that too); many or even most countries also suffer from a supply-side problem: they lack the capability, systems, institutional culture and practice to deliver for their citizens.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Here are a few vignettes of how this works: Supporting Entrepreneurship : Back in 2018, a nurse practitioner with over a decade’s experience opened an urgent care facility in her hometown of Clarksdale, MS.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives.

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Solving the ‘Founder’s Syndrome’ Problem in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

I came from a, a military background, so I’m an army veteran and, um, had a small business of my own, a small construction consulting firm long time ago, uh, when dinosaurs were long in the earth. Louis and our job was to do entrepreneurship for military members and their families in St. Darcella Craven: Absolutely. That was it.

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How About We Solve a Problem Instead of Admiring It? Building a Solution-Focused Mindset

Fundraising Leadership

We act on that intention whether in training programs like 50 Women Can Change the World in Entrepreneurship that will launch in the fall or in our upcoming Power Up Concert and Conference. Our intention is to signify focusing on solutions, not problems, and taking action on those solutions. So I prefer to say “partners.”