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Sneak Preview: Classes Announced for 2023

NonProfit Leadership Center

, join the Nonprofit Leadership Center for a nonprofit training class or certificate program in the new year. These learning experiences will strengthen your skills and your nonprofit organization. What is the cost to your culture and performance when team members don’t understand each other’s perspectives or experiences?

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Addressing the Nonprofit Workforce Crisis: 4 Practical Strategies

NonProfit Leadership Center

Culture-Related Strategies Create a supportive work environment where employees feel valued, respected, engaged, and have opportunities for growth. Foster a positive and inclusive workplace culture where employees feel connected to the organization’s mission.

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Executive Director Management: The Board’s Top 5 Responsibilities

Bloomerang

Finding that perfect balance of power and productivity is one of the most common challenges that nonprofit leaders face. . The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. We will outline the top five responsibilities that governing bodies assume for the Executive Director (ED).

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Amir Geshani on unsplash.com As nonprofit organizations become more racially, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse, are nonprofit boards lagging behind? However, my experience is not exceptional. Several years ago, she was asked to serve on the foundation’s board of directors.

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Getting nonprofit boards on board: Recruiting, governance, and fundraising

Candid

These articles explore the challenges and opportunities nonprofit boards can present for advancing racial equityboth within organizations and in the communities they serve. Why do smaller nonprofit organizations tend to have more diverse boards? According to Candids The state of diversity in the U.S.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Those who seek to “build the capacity” of nonprofit organizations must reflect critically on who is being served and toward what ends. This is not to deny that importance of more conventional measures—such as “Is this organization well managed?” Their work must be grounded in values of social justice. Beyond Neutrality.

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Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Our sector must begin to look at a thriving nonprofit as one that values partnership, and nowhere is that more important than in the relationship between the board and staff, and more narrowly in the relationship between the staff leader and the board chair.