NonProfit Leadership Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With considerate leadership and thoughtful planning, though, these barriers are easy to dismantle—such as by using technology that allows staff to make presentations in their home language. Some challenges may be less tangible, such as cultural differences and values. Courageous leadership is built on heroic leadership.

Health 242

Health Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Civil Society 242

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image Credit: Oladimeji Odunsi on unsplash.com How do you support development across the food system in a way that builds community ownership and power for Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities? This is a question that a group of food system activists of color have come together to address. This work is worth supporting.

Food 122

Food Finance Community Development Culture 122

NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Nonprofit Leadership Center’s Nonprofit Holiday Gift Guide highlights gifts for everyone on your list, with some or all of the proceeds benefiting nonprofits. Gifts in this 2023 guide were curated by the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s nonprofit community through a submission process in November. Located in St.

Children 264

Children Homelessness Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofits 264

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

India’s fragrant spices, cornucopia of foods, and breathtaking biodiversity compelled despots and discoverers alike to traverse its mystical landscapes, from the mighty Himalayas to the valiant Deccan. And in doing so, they have relentlessly decolonized what land and food have meant for my people.

Food 122

Food Civil Society Agriculture Public and Social Policy 122

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Secretary of Homeland Security Jacob Wood Co-Founder & Executive Board Chairman Team Rubicon Team Rubicon became one of the most impactful nonprofits under Wood’s leadership. Team Rubicon is widely known for its innovation and unique culture. Following four years in the U.S.

Civil Society 85

Civil Society Nonprofit Administration and Development Urban development Law 85

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By better understanding the wide cultural roots of this season of generosity we can fine-tune the means to communicate with all who make up our communities. By expanding out from the homogeneous group we also demonstrate acts of leadership within that more numerous portion of the local and national population.

Culture 124

Culture Children Communication Fundraising 124

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Deborah Bae & Kiernan Doherty The dominant narrative around leadership in many areas of the world centers individualism over solidarity. It suggests that there is one kind of leadership and that a single person—one who intervenes to solve a problem or envision a bold new reality—embodies it.

Leadership 98

Leadership Curriculum and Teaching Health Culture 98

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Community & Culture Working together lifts everyone up! Learn how culturally responsive leadership can help bring out the best in your nonprofits team. Explore the realities and challenges of food insecurity. Sometimes, the only solution to a dysfunctional nonprofit board is a fresh start with an entirely new board.

Nonprofit governance and management 74

Nonprofit governance and management Finance Collaborations Leadership 74

Anedot

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Organization Overview: Thirty-five percent of all food in the U.S. goes to waste, contributing significantly to environmental damage, with global food waste ranking as the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions behind the U.S. Meanwhile, more than 20% of people in the Bay Area face food insecurity.

Management 52

Management Food Environmental Insurance 52

Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Prioritizing Collaboration and Sustainable Funding Arts and Culture Alpine County (ACAC), a local arts agency, has obtained small grants from the Alpine County Board of Supervisors and Live Healthy, an organization under the Alpine County umbrella.

Nonprofit governance and management 59

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Food Collaborations 59

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 13, 2019

A positive workplace culture is so important to your overall well being – maybe even more so at nonprofits where a lot of you deal with difficult subjects for less compensation. Food helps people be happy. Leadership. If you are in a position of management, how can you keep morale high at a nonprofit organization?

Food 161

Food Culture Health Leadership 161

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Effective AI implementation in nonprofit work requires more than technical proficiency: It demands a culturally sensitive, community-informed approach. The future of AI in nonprofits depends on your leadership! Only through such diverse alliances can AI enhance human connection and advance equity.

Collaborations 69

Collaborations Ethics Technology Foundations 69

Anedot

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

ELM has recently acquired a building which will undergo renovations to become our home for music, culture and community. Assist the Board Chair with administrative tasks, correspondence, and special Executive and Leadership Support Schedule appointments and meetings for executives and leadership.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Leadership Finance Children 52

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

NPQ readers may want to pay special attention to the first flagship session of Climate Week, on the pressing need for new climate leadership and renewed ambition when it comes to climate action now. The session is available for streaming and will be accessible to watch on the web after the event.

Finance 125

Finance Leadership Environmental Collaborations 125

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 31, 2025

They play a significant role in everyday conscious and unconscious decisionsfrom choosing a love interest or a new home to how we respond to the presentation, temperature, taste, and smell of food. CultureRx Initiative is a statewide effort in Massachusetts to improv[e] health and well-being through cultural participation.

Health 63

Health Medical Psychology Healthcare 63

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Grassroots movements accelerate scaling through distributed impact and leadership. Heterogenous, autonomous yet interconnected leadership leads to greater stability in the face of uncertain and rapidly evolving political and ecological conditions. Novelty over the tried-and-true.

Agriculture 128

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Energy Governance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

We are hearing about how internal conflicts within organizations are threatening the long-term safety of movements, and how a culture of martyrdom manifests in burnout. Healing practitioners are familiar with repackaging their work as “leadership development” or “political education” or the strategy du jour to fit a given funder’s framework.

Health 136

Health Culture Food Philanthropy 136

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I share my story here as an unfolding of these energies, followed by an inquiry into how we might use this ancestral knowledge to build healthier organizational and movement cultures. Was it American culture teaching her bad values? The result is a culture of unbearable, endless critique. What a shame. What can you do?”

Energy 122

Energy Culture Public and Social Policy Food 122

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It shapes and perpetuates Native identities, cultures, and worldviews.” Founded in 1999 and similar in mission to NAEDC, the nonprofit supports ecotourism while also promoting “food sovereignty and ecological stewardship.” Three Themes: Holistic Stewardship, Sovereignty, and Leadership Development. One is control over data.

Nonprofit governance and management 140

Nonprofit governance and management Poverty Environmental Food 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In this series, movement leaders explore what’s possible if philanthropy adopts a reparative model—one in which it supports the leadership of BIPOC communities, not just by writing grants, but by shifting assets and control over resources to frontline communities. Imagine a table. This “who” needs to change.

Philanthropy 142

Philanthropy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Culture 142

Anedot

MARCH 6, 2025

As a manager, this role is responsible for modeling Ceres culture and for supporting the well-being, development and retention of the staff members that report to them. This position supervises a Grants & Corporate Engagement Coordinator. For more information, please visit www.ceresproject.org.

Management 40

Management Nonprofit governance and management Health Food 40

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Common uses include website based chatbots that provide 24/7 answers to oft-asked questions, hiring software that screens resumes for certain criteria, and robots doing manual labor like restocking food bank shelves. Here are three ways smart tech can be used to shift organizational work cultures: Invest in online chatbots.

Health 125

Health Culture Recruitment Technology 125

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! Find an inspiring venue If you operate a hunger relief organization, hosting a retreat where you serve food could provide inspiring reminders of why everyone is passionate about the mission.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Nonprofit Administration and Development Food Culture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 1, 2023

That’s what Creative Wildfire —an organizing project supporting artists, cultural workers, and organizations—seeks to do. After attending one of Movement Generation’s justice and ecology retreats, he eventually joined the organization’s leadership team. That’s when they began to look at their justice and ecology retreats differently.

Culture 105

Culture Energy Cultural Diversity Education 105

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Her team’s focus has been on “identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results. Her priorities are to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.”

Non-Profits 140

Non-Profits Poverty Charitable Organizations Philanthropy 140

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

AUGUST 3, 2022

Partnerships Director Juanita White Provides a Perspective on Momentum Nonprofit Partners’ Organizational Culture A recent study in the UK concluded that happy employees are productive employees : “ Happiness makes people more productive at work, according to the latest research from the University of Warwick. I love to have fun. Dress code?

Culture 52

Culture Production Universities Food 52

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Our climate crisis is related to people being unhoused, living in food deserts, and being unable to find work because of a lack of affordable transportation. Throughout this process, we’ve asked ourselves two main questions: How do we embed justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into our internal culture and programmatic work?

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Culture Leadership 111

Candid

JULY 14, 2022

For decades, Native American tribes have faced economic and food insecurity, education barriers, substandard and overcrowded housing, and limited healthcare—all tied to flawed federal policies and broken treaties. Smart funders realize community leadership and engagement is essential to project continuation once the grant period ends.

Disaster Relief 98

Disaster Relief Healthcare Food Children 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 26, 2023

Indigenous Peoples have oral histories that confirm eons of existence in relationship with place, and we should be respectful that many Indigenous cultures have their own belief systems regarding creation and the origins of their populations. I was fortunate to grow up in a family with many traditional healers and cultural leaders.

Health 98

Health Poverty Public and Social Policy Culture 98

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

MARCH 20, 2023

In the wake of changing work culture, workforce shortages, and leadership transitions, change is inevitable. We began shouting from the rooftops, encouraging our organizational partners to prepare for an impending leadership transition. What a fantastic opportunity to examine your pay structure and organizational culture.

Organizational Change 88

Organizational Change Leadership Culture Public and Nonprofit Management 88

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Though ecologically and culturally rich, the county ranks in the bottom eighth in California for per-capita income. For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Health Collaborations Foundations 98

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 19, 2017

Previously unsure of the precise graduate program to pursue, she set about the business of obtaining a master’s degree in arts administration at the University of Oregon where her learning was focused on the intersection of arts and culture and sustainable communities. to bring the babe to daycare and get myself to work.

Communication 126

Communication Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 126

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What was your research process of pulling all of these dense topics, from global warming, to faith, to redlining, to greenlining, to food insecurity together in an accessible, easy-to-read way? But you have a cultural history of Dr. Beverly Wright, and I know you know Miss Peggy Shepard up in Harlem.

Environmental 126

Environmental Food Poverty Culture 126

The NonProfit Times

JUNE 19, 2024

The rise of the $10 billion self-care industry goes beyond the #TreatYourself hashtag that permeates popular culture (Conlin, 2019). The images of healthcare workers with mask impressions etched into their faces, or food bank staff packing resources into mile-long lines of vehicles are images of this unprecedented time.

Healthcare 96

Healthcare Health Production Culture 96

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. What’s also startling is that climate change is one of this group’s least immediate concerns. Here are five ways to start. Supply Chains. Investment.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

Fundraising Leadership

JUNE 14, 2024

. ” The concert and conference herald Take The Lead’s 10 years of effort to engage, support, train and uplift women and men with the goal of parity in leadership across all sectors. The power of voice is demonstrated in the 9 Leadership Power Tools developed by Take The Lead co-founder and president, Gloria Feldt.

Leadership 75

Leadership Culture Law Education 75

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Investing in Resident Leadership The group I direct, the Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW), actively supports and provides infrastructure for the DN4S resident-led project. Community members began by pushing for simple things to facilitate attendance at these meetings, like childcare, food, and interpretation.

Community Development 126

Community Development Leadership Food Marketing 126