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

NonProfit Leadership Center

Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,

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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. But what organizational barriers exist? It should be abundantly clear how your projects and tasks solve the bigger problems.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Those of us who have worked in the field for years know that the capacity building paradigm must change—we must move from a focus on building clients’ technical capacity toward a focus on partnering with organizations to build cultures of liberation. Beyond Neutrality. In other words, capacity building is never a neutral process.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

Hazen Foundation provided funding for CYC to engage youth and community stakeholder voices in the transition process, leading to the creation of a transition committee that consisted of three board members, three staff, and three youth representatives of CYC’s foster youth membership. The Edward W.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. policy and advocacy, research and legal assistance, communications and narrative change, leadership and organizational development).

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

Representing the richness and diversity of Montana’s charitable sector, MNA members address an array of missions in education, health and human services, arts and culture, religious and spiritual development, environmental protection, animal welfare, economic and workforce development, and more.