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32 Rising Nonprofit Leaders Chosen for 2023 Certificate in Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Center

A nonprofit organization hires a talented professional. Naturally, they are promoted into a management role. There’s just one problem, they’ve never managed others or received formal management or leadership training to prepare them for this new opportunity. This person is valued by their peers and supervisors.

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A Modern Nonprofit Podcast: Turning Things Around with 180 Management Group

The Charity CFO

180 Management Group is an operations consulting firm that specializes in operational strategy and design, specifically for nonprofit organizations. Led by Miriam Dicks and our guest on today’s show, 180 Management Group believes that people are their biggest asset. Thus, causing an inside looking out approach to be utilized.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.

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Meyer Foundation Appoints George L. Askew, M.D., as President & CEO

NonProfit PRO

Dr. Askew brings decades of experience as a former pediatrician and leader in federal policy, local government agencies, and nonprofit management spaces. Askew, M.D. will serve as the Foundation's next president and CEO, effective April 1.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In my four decades as a senior fundraising executive, part-time consultant, and nonprofit CEO, I have worked with (or served on) 20 nonprofit boards. Having been the only one in my business school class who chose a career in the nonprofit sector, I was able to use my MBA training to lead change and turnarounds.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

But lead exposure is particularly harmful for children, in whom it can cause speech and developmental delays, hyperactivity, rashes, and neurologic problems. For the last few years, there have been major clashes between Mississippi’s state government and its majority-Black capital city.

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The State of Mental Health Support in Climate Emergencies

NonProfit Quarterly

Those impacted the most by involuntary moves globally are children. The Most Vulnerable The report found the “unequal burdens” of children are also deepened by climate change. Children are most at risk for the consequences of climate change in general—and environmental dangers to their mental health start even before birth.

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