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Leadership Development Beyond Projects

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Elikem Tomety Archer & Jessica Harrington In 2017, as part of her participation in the youth leadership program Global Citizen Year , Dora—an 18-year-old from Huntington Beach, California—spent seven months in Thiadiaye, Senegal. Leadership program projects are not typically designed with the long term in mind.

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INK-nitiative: The Social Impact of Tattoo Removal

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Alan Mazzocco , iStock We often think of the nonprofit sector as the main origin of charitable activities, but the for-profit corporate space can also be a significant source of philanthropic and social action. The for-profit corporate space can also be a significant source of philanthropic and social action.

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Five tectonic technology shifts changing our world, our work and our potential

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

The title of this post is the name of a speech I gave yesterday in Charlotte for the Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Leadership Program. The social action shift. The idea: Technology has made it easy for people to take small, easy actions in support of a cause. Relate your cause to their values. -

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What a Week: Making Women’s History and Future Every Day

Fundraising Leadership

This past week, I had so many opportunities both to celebrate and to join with other women and men to make the future of our choice, one where equality and parity are values that drive our decisions, our work, our policy actions. Know your history and you can create the future of your choice. The theme is “Together We Lead.”

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

It requires seeding education in diverse educational spaces and developing pedagogical practices capable of building coherent cultures of democracy that align with movement values of cooperation and democracy. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

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Why Are Nonprofits Experiencing An Insurance Crisis? And What Can the Nonprofit Sector Do About it?

Blue Avocado

If NIA could provide coverage for the first two million dollars in limits without significant reliance on reinsurance, it would allow nonprofits themselves to determine which risks are acceptable, without any of the political or social action concerns that cause large public corporations to shy away from this business.