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A Nonprofit Partnership: How One Board Member Connected Two Organizations and Boosted Both

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Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. Get to know your board members beyond their work at the organization they govern and understand who they are.

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  Freedom To Fight For DEI: How Legal Battles Affect Leadership Policies, Commitment

Fundraising Leadership

These issues demand response and action in the workplace now and require deep understanding of the laws, processes and practices in order to be successful in achieving parity and equity in leadership across gender, race and identity. “ “ Prevailing in an anti-DEI climate requires intention and effort.

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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. Women in the workforce and in the leadership pipeline are affected, according to the OMFIFs 2024 Gender Balance Index. But you can take action.

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Nonprofit Professional Development | Resources for Success

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Some of the many course options you can find include: Designing Nonprofit Programs: E Certificate Coaching as a Leadership Tool: E Certificate Effective Staff Supervision: E Certificate Leaders for Equity & Social Justice: E Certificate Risk Leadership: Inspiring Teams to Embrace and Manage Risk The best part?

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Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

was mindful of these shifts and challenges in 2015, when the Rwandan government asked us to help reform the school subject of entrepreneurship. The study of entrepreneurship is mandatory at the upper secondary level—the last three years before students go on to tertiary education or work—across the country’s schools.

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What millennials and boomers really think - and what that means to your cause

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

A good summary of the prevailing sentiment is this quote: “My hope is that society will become more family oriented than government oriented.” Control : frugality, effective money management, black and white answers that come from scientific pursuits, own business/entrepreneurship, self reliance (especially younger Millennials).

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Whatever specific approach a business takes to achieve this, it must make environmental and societal sustainability integral to its operations, and secure the full support of leadership so that all decisions, investments, innovations, and measurement systems are meaningfully embedded into the business. Here are five ways to start.

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