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An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To date, 1,932 university student volunteers have taught 6,604 teenagers at 398 regional learning centers across the country, equivalent to 1,566,382 hours of cumulative learning time. Successfully experimenting with and evolving its governance structure over the last decade has been central to Jump’s success. Moreover, 69.1

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

Escher, Relativity Stairs Imagine a large - no, bigger, much bigger - nonprofit hospital, university, housing developer, or after school program. Right now, there are 13 universities in the U.S.A. with more than $10 billion endowments (one of which is a "public" university), with the largest topping $50 billion.

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How the Wealthy Took Control of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

A more liberatory future is possible, one in which nonprofit leaders and boards work together more equitably, effectively, and impactfully by reimagining the role of boards in the broader nonprofit governance ecosystem. To get there, however, requires an understanding of how boards came to be.

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Cultivating a Liberatory Board

NonProfit Quarterly

We have so many arbitrary rules that limit our imagination of whats possible when it comes to nonprofit governance. This framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption that weve inherited from the past.

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85% Of United Nations’ Sustainable Goals Not Being Met

The NonProfit Times

Delivering on and scaling AI’s potential for impact on the SDGs is a collaborative endeavor that requires work across companies, universities, nonprofits, governments, and individuals to have real-world impact, according to the authors. More than 65% of these were open source, compared to 44% in 2022 and 33% in 2021.

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From Corporate Culture to a New Organizational Landscape—A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Ananda Valenzuela

NonProfit Quarterly

We need our government to provide a strong social safety net. We need universal basic income and universal healthcare. We’ve talked a little about how corporate culture affects boards and how it creates competition among nonprofits.

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Guest Post: What’s your organization’s role in the wake of a man-made disaster?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

If you can contribute resources that other organizations can’t, be they nonprofit, government or for-profit, then you are particularly well-suited to take a strong role in the response effort. . • Does your organization have staff, programs, tools or expertise relevant to the disaster response?