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When Does Interim Nonprofit Leadership Make Sense?

Blue Avocado

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader.

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How Funders Can Strategically Invest in the Growth and Impact of BIPOC Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Organizational growth isnt linear. Organizational change and growth are not short-term investments. Funders should understand that organizational change and growth are not short-term investments and that longer engagements lead to more significant results. Every organization is different.

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Just Announced! 2023 Spring Nonprofit Training Events

NonProfit Leadership Center

Here at the Nonprofit Leadership Center, we believe spring is the perfect time to make plans for your personal and professional development. April 2023 Level Up Your Leadership: How to Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow — April 4 Are leaders born, or is leadership something you can learn? REGISTER NEW!

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. 1] In spite of the salience of race in the experience of leadership, there is not much study of the Black leadership experience. Image Credit: Van3ssa ? A somewhat different perspective.is

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

So many have aspired to build the more beautiful, liberatory world we know is possible by engaging in the deep, hard work of sharing leadership, dismantling systems of power and oppression, and living into our values in the here and now. By naming what is wrong, it becomes possible to begin a journey through organizational change.

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Operationalizing Co-Leadership Structures: Lessons from the Nonprofit Intermediary Field

NonProfit Quarterly

Incoming BIPOC leaders, in particular, are questioning how we reconcile commitments to dismantle oppressive systems externally while practicing a highly individualistic and heroic notion of organizational leadership internally. Thus, the seed was planted for co-leadership as a possible structure at ProInspire.

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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Beyond the cost associated with replacement, high turnover rates also result in loss of institutional knowledge, lower productivity and morale, and community image issues. To help you better understand the “hidden” costs of employee turnover, the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has created a free Cost of Employee Turnover Calculator.

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