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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. White and Black employees make up 78 percent and 12 percent of the overall labor force within the United States, respectively. percent of these managers are Black (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2016).

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

In this conversation with Cyndi Suarez, NPQ ’s president and editor in chief, and Marcus Walton, president and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the two leaders discuss NPQ ’s and GEO’s journeys of organizational transformation, and how we move beyond the what is to embrace the what can be. Cyndi Suarez: Really?

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” by Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” It is no surprise that the technology is extremely faulty and it is deployed almost exclusively in non-White neighborhoods.

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Three Secrets to Scaling a Nonprofit

The Charity CFO

This week on A Modern Nonprofit Podcast we’ll show you how to build the right team to scale your organization effectively. In this episode, Dirk van Reenen joins us to talk about why nonprofits need a defined business structure, the right team (not just a passionate team), and the mental shift founders must make to scale.

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PODCAST: Understanding Fundraising & Human Behavior

The Charity CFO

Why do people give to nonprofits?”. And while he’s found that the answers vary wildly, he’s managed to identify some core principles that can predictably boost giving to your nonprofit. The biggest communication problem most nonprofits face (13:25). Be sure to subscribe for new episodes every week!

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, New York’s junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Nydia Velázquez had, that summer, championed the Act across the finish line in record time and with bipartisan support. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Until it was. The tides were turning.