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23 Leaders Selected for 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,

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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

However, the foundation of influence always begins with a good relationship and trust. A more useful alternative is to view your role as customer service. This is the foundation of moving from an order taker to a strategic advisor – demonstrating your ability to think big picture and holistically.

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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

Hazen Foundation provided funding for CYC to engage youth and community stakeholder voices in the transition process, leading to the creation of a transition committee that consisted of three board members, three staff, and three youth representatives of CYC’s foster youth membership. The Edward W.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A portfolio with more locally led organizations needs to be valued, specifically (though not exclusively), as an investment in the local NGO sector and the problems the sector is trying to address. Ultimately, it shaped the LEGO Foundation’s own investment strategy to experiment with funding more Sub-Saharan African researchers.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Their work must be grounded in values of social justice. Butler said , “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns”—a metaphor that speaks to the possibility of developing new paradigms and creating new centers of gravity in our thinking. This requires imagination because, as Octavia E.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It now includes my organization, Lever for Change, as well as ICONIQ Impact, Lego Foundation, Yield Giving, Pivotal Ventures, W. Kellogg Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. We need to grow this group further—not to the exclusion of other types of philanthropy, but to complement it.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. policy and advocacy, research and legal assistance, communications and narrative change, leadership and organizational development).