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Building Community Through Soccer: Maigan T. Bridgette’s Story at Sporting Kansas City

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

With a passion for political science and social justice, she initially envisioned a career in law but found herself drawn to the nonprofit sector. Bridgette , a Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) whose career journey began with a simple desire – to make a difference.

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Rising To The Top: Founder, CEO on Supporting All WOC To Succeed

Fundraising Leadership

Read more in Take the Lead on DEI initiatives A graduate of Chicago Public Schools, Whyte says, “My first plane ride was going to University of Miami.” After two years she transferred to the University of Florida, graduating in 1999 with degrees in political science and business, and the intention of going to law school.

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Bloomerang

Cody holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Rhetoric from Wabash College. He also holds a Juris Doctor degree with a concentration in Health Law from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis. He's been a valued member of Bloomerang since the doors opened in 2012.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

Robinson, a professor of political science and Black studies. 11 A study by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Law School in Evanston, IL, found that ShotSpotter has a false alarm rate of 89 percent. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2021; original work published 1983). smtid=2&psid=446.

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

Fundraising Leadership

According to Texas Women’s University, “Women make up 50.8% of law degrees, 47.5% Yet very few women hold the highest positions of leadership in the academic, legal, corporate or political spheres.” politics, it’s that men are significantly overrepresented in U.S. politics. labor force.

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Get to Know Our New Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, Sherry Rout!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Sherry has been a presenter at national and state conferences on a wide range of government relations topics, a guest lecturer on effective advocacy at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, and spent many years as a guest lecturer on animal law and lobbying at the University of Tennessee’s Schools of Law and Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, TN.