Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

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.

Leadership 70

Leadership Nonprofit Leadership Culture Participation and motivation 70

Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

Culture 136

Culture Philanthropy Public and Nonprofit Management Organizational Development 136

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2023

Organizations that work in organizational and leadership development (aka capacity building) not only support the nonprofit sector, but shape it. In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy. Image Credit: Andras Kovacs on unsplash.com.

Nonprofit governance and management 116

Nonprofit governance and management Organizational Development Leadership Governance 116

Fundraising Coach

MARCH 24, 2009

Last week I was at the annual conference for the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy. A great session I went to was on managing development staff by Betsy Rigby, Director of Development with Partners HealthCare. It was a great conference, and I did alot of tweeting. You can see all my NEAHP tweets here.

Management 72

Management Organizational Development Healthcare Leadership 72

Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 13, 2023

With a growing realization of philanthropy’s power to shape social change agendas—and an aim to make better use of philanthropic funds and better address structural causes of inequity—these practices rebalance power and place decision-making authority closer to the nexus of change.

Collaborations 115

Collaborations Organizational Development Civil Society Nonprofit governance and management 115

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 24, 2023

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system. ” USC ERI 3. ” USC ERI 3.

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Health Foundations Collaborations 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 11, 2023

All of this ultimately requires major changes in the culture, infrastructure, and practices of climate and conservation funders, including international NGOs, private foundations and philanthropies, and government funding agencies. These changes are possible for both public and private funders.

Civil Society 119

Civil Society Environmental Public and Social Policy Governance 119