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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As social change leaders, you are responsible for fostering a culture of growth and development within the organization, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills to drive the organization forward. How could you implement a cross-organizational initiative knowing that everyone is focused on their own priorities?

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It can mean supporting networking and collaboration across local entities rather than competitive funding mechanisms. Moreover, by replacing an application-based process with a nominations process, and by funding a cohort of recipients, they are able to replace a competitive experience with a collaborative one.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When we awarded the first $100 million grant in 2017 to a collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop —both highly experienced and large organizations—we provided them with six months to outline plans, with support from our expert advisors, for how they might effectively absorb and deploy the funds.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To allow community organizers and community priorities to lead the way, BHC planning meetings became a node for resident-led organizations to connect, build relationships, access resources, and collaboratively shape campaigns and initiatives around community-defined priorities.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

At least 50 percent of the earth’s land area is owned, used, or managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs), with 36 percent of all intact forests on recognized Indigenous lands. Funders will need to marshal their creativity in changing funding practices, as well as invest in their own internal management capacity.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission. The Executive Director understands the responsibilities of managing a membership organization and updates their understanding of the needs of MNA’s member organizations to ensure each member receives outstanding service consistently.

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2022 Nonprofit Leadership Conference Breakout Speakers & Sessions

NonProfit Leadership Center

Three major career shifts due to reorganizations and layoffs gave rise to her more than 30 years of management and training experience in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors. As an award-winning leader, her P.R.A.I.S.E. Culture and P.R.A.I.S.E. Strategy frameworks align culture with strategy to achieve measurable results.