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

Fundraising Leadership

While some fields suffered sudden layoffs, that stretch of time also enveloped many with a positive sense of possibility for entrepreneurship rallies and pivots into daring careers. But it is remarkably different from the Great Resignation sparked by COVID-19. Most all these moves are completely unexpected.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored. Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life.

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

The Value of Lived Experience The value of lived experiences for leaders is a topic that has been explored in other fields, such as social entrepreneurship —and it’s now being adapted to nonprofit boards. 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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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. These maps continued to govern bank lending until the passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. Nonprofits are a feature of tax law and corporate governance laws.

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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Given endemic market failure, the federal government must adjust to this reality. 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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Trust Is The Best Currency: CEO, Founder Stamps Approval on Products for Parents

Fundraising Leadership

and across the globe, Vinderine has a long history of intention and entrepreneurship, but one first met with skepticism. “ and across the globe, @PTPASharon has a long history of intention and #entrepreneurship. “ As the founder and CEO of @PTPA, an awards-based platform with 200,000 community members in the U.S.