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The United Nations’ Innovation Learning Journey

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The types of individuals joining the UN are usually trained in negotiation, political science, and international relations, where technical know-how and managerial skills are not pronounced. This not only manifests itself in the organizations’ cultures but is also reflected in their allocation of financial and human resources.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures. Water managers conclude that their shared underground resource requires a regional association bringing together small and large cities and rural areas with vastly different organizational cultures. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

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Unlearning to Relearn: An Interview with Stephanie Bowman of Mothers Out Front

NonProfit Quarterly

So, I went to college at Hampton University and studied political science. However, no matter how progressive the space was, there was always a layer of sexism, racism, and ageism embedded in the culture. But an older Black man might, on a cultural level, understand. I realized that I wanted to be an organizer for life.

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Activating Loving-Awareness

NonProfit Quarterly

The conscious cultivation of awareness, or the application of awareness-based practices that teach us how to pay attention to our own experience as a witness—and therefore a subject of life rather than an object that life is happening to—can be incredibly empowering.

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All You Need: 7 Key Reasons To Attend Take The Lead’s Power Up Concert & Conference

Fundraising Leadership

” In a recent State Department briefing, Diana O’Brien, Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Washington University in St. politics, it’s that men are significantly overrepresented in U.S. politics.

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Lessons from Campaign 2010: Innovations in Online Fundraising and Organizing from the Mid-term Elections

Care2

BSD's portfolio of clients includes nonprofits like the American Red Cross; political and advocacy campaigns, most famously President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign; cultural and academic institutions like Harvard University; and brands and businesses like Microsoft. Eric Rardin: Eric is the Director of Nonprofit Services, for Care2.

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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

shopsmarter ” In her early years of entrepreneurship after graduating from York University in 1994 with a double degree in mass communications and political science, Vinderine, who stands just under 5 feet tall, says she endured not only gender bias, but height bias when connecting with funders and clients in person. “As