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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. CS: Right, right. That I don’t know.

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

As part of this work, we rigorously read and discussed Maurice Mitchell’s article about key trends and fallacies in progressive movement organizations and the dimensions of organizational resilience needed to win. The first core concept is that while nonprofit organizations are part of social movements, they are not the same thing.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Nearly all have faced power struggles from within that they didn’t anticipate and can’t seem to get beyond without considerable time and energy that would otherwise be spent on the job they believed they were hired to perform. By the middle of the 1950s, Black radicals had been driven out of public view. To put it bluntly: We fight.