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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

I handpicked them, from across all departments : people who had been here for a long time, newbies, people with informal leadership, and people who were viewed as troublemakers.   And the majority of the management team was anxious about this new Advisory Committee. We wrestled with hard questions… “Does this policy make sense in practice?

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

The Black Leader’s Burden In the past three years, many of us who have been advancing justice initiatives have either questioned or outright criticized traditional top-down leadership as one root cause of the perpetuation of structural racism. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. They seek to unionize.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

Belonging is really foundational and even preverbal. What we say in the book is that belonging is the foundation, not othering—and people other one group in order to for them to belong to another group. They simply won’t adopt social policies. So, it is not an academic discussion. Do you have the freedom to wear a mask?

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

And over time, private foundations emerged and issued grants in a similar way. 6 The term “nonprofit neighborhoods” refers to “places where neighborhood based nonprofit organizations controlled access to the levers of political, economic, and social power and mediated the local manifestation of the state and the market.”

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Creating Inclusive Governance to Build Political Momentum In the United Kingdom, Bristol’s city government used a commitment to the SDGs to develop its unique One City Approach in 2016, a new model of governance that offers an active leadership role to outside partners in achieving the city’s priorities.