NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And while I wasn’t so naïve to think that the title didn’t come with assumed and real power, it certainly wasn’t my vision of leadership. It’s been a lot of hard work, intention, and shared leadership to create this culture of trust, respect, and fun. I too had that kind of boss (more than once). We all have. Did you enjoy this story?

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Leadership Culture Food Children 201

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I handpicked them, from across all departments : people who had been here for a long time, newbies, people with informal leadership, and people who were viewed as troublemakers.   And the majority of the management team was anxious about this new Advisory Committee. We wrestled with hard questions… “Does this policy make sense in practice?

Altruism and Helping 209

Altruism and Helping Leadership Children Nonprofit Leadership 209

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Support capacity building within nonprofits, for example by including long-term, multiyear grants and supplemental support for financial management, fundraising, communication, and internal training and leadership coaching.

Nonprofits 124

Nonprofits Leadership Poverty Social Policy 124

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

As noted in “ American Muslim Philanthropy: A Data-Driven Comparative Profile ,” a report authored by Faiqa Mahmood in 2019 via The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, “The strongest motivations for American Muslims are a feeling that those with more should give to those with less and a sense of religious duty or obligation.” .

Philanthropy 120

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Leadership 120

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

The Black Leader’s Burden In the past three years, many of us who have been advancing justice initiatives have either questioned or outright criticized traditional top-down leadership as one root cause of the perpetuation of structural racism. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. They seek to unionize.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Leadership Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 23, 2024

That you can’t fix that, [can’t] have social policies that attend to people who are marginalized if you don’t see those people as people. They simply won’t adopt social policies. In fact, they will adopt social policies that hurt themselves in order to hurt those people.

Race and Ethnicity 138

Race and Ethnicity Social Policy Children Homelessness 138