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Announcing the Mid-South Nonprofit Conference Speakers!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Why Core Values Matter to Your Organization’s Success This workshop will discuss the importance of workplace culture and how critical it is to set the right tone with your team! Maintaining a focus on the core values of an organization can help to strengthen teams, empower leaders, and carry a nonprofit forward for future years.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. The Executive Director actively supports building the membership base and the value members find in belonging to MNA.

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

In more contemporary movements, we see these values embodied by groups including Ella Baker and the Young Negroes Cooperative League , the First Rainbow Coalition (Chicago Black Panthers Party) to the Combahee River Collective. By naming what is wrong, it becomes possible to begin a journey through organizational change.

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How to Conduct Racial Equity Audits

NonProfit Quarterly

These audits are part of the bigger picture of organizational change management. And every piece of the puzzle is required to complete the scene and make change happen. Thoughtful purpose statements can serve to prepare, energize, and guide teams with a values-based roadmap.

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An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This includes the value of experimentation. Instead of overseeing both day-to-day operations and relevant business decisions themselves, they handed both tasks over to Jump employees in 2016 and began to engage only in major decisions and policy-making activities. Employees also have the Jump DNA.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Staff, particularly those newer to the workforce, have expectations informed and shaped by rhetoric about the societal changes organizations seek (for example “centering those most impacted,” “breaking norms of White supremacy,” and so on). The increasing prevalence of staff unionization is evidence of these felt needs among staff.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

However inexperienced and/or entitled staff may be, my interactions with younger staff members have consistently shown me that they are sophisticated enough to know that just because one shares a historically oppressed identity does not mean one shares the same values or vision for justice. Well, turns out they were still working on that.