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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ careersuccess #intentioning ” After her children were born, Looper says, “I believed the myth that I had to step out of leadership.”

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Living Up To Their Dreams: Gloria Feldt and Gloria Steinem on Making Movements

Fundraising Leadership

million people have been reached and women’s leadership has increased from 18 to 35 percent. “I genderparity ” As a teen mom in Texas, with three children by the time she was 20, Feldt said, “I saw that people working together could change anything. I feel so pleased and proud of the work Take The Lead does.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Kellogg Foundation’s investments in Americans for Indian Opportunity program provided her with deep healing, leadership development, and connection to a global network of Indigenous leaders. Community leaders identified the issues the community thought most important. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

To date, through this incubator, 19 new businesses licensed for a total of 390 children have opened. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Nine others are in the process of becoming licensed. The pandemic further stressed this business model.

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How Radical Trust Creates Long-Term Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Réjane Woodroffe’s leadership experience in the remote Eastern Cape of South Africa gives funders and entrepreneurs a lesson in what it means to drive change alongside your community. McNulty: You take year-long sabbaticals regularly in order to create resiliency and foster leadership throughout the organization.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Our children and their families suffer the impact of generational trauma just as much as their beneficiaries do. Wraparound support: This includes adult education, leadership development, education programs, nutritional education, and mental health assistance. Now López uses her leadership and empathy to drive the business.

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The Future of Family Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Over the following years, GSF leadership shifted their spending policy from a purely formulaic model to one informed not only by their perpetuity and investment goals but by their foundation’s mission and the current circumstances. It also includes new donors who are making their own wealth and embarking on their own giving journeys.