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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

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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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

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?

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

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.

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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

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.” .

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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How to Achieve Belonging without Othering: A Conversation with john a. powell

NonProfit Quarterly

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.