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Get Inspired: 40 Quotes About Nonprofit Leadership and Fundraising

Nonprofit Fixer

These inspiring quotes provide a little extra insight into how to find sustainability in nonprofit leadership and impact. Hilarious Quotes About the Reality of Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofit work tends to be intense. What untapped resources, opportunities and collaborations exist? Don't feel pressure to scale.

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Investing in Systems Change Capacity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A market innovation like creating a sustainable seafood market is unlikely to create enduring systems change without building strong relationships with civil society. Build broad buy-in across institutions through shared learning and leadership. Combine responsiveness with a strategic approach.

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10 Ways Funders Can Address Generative AI Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most obviously, funders working in specific issue areas—climate, health, education, or in my case, democracy—can work to support efforts downstream to prepare government and civil society in their respective sectors to take advantage of the opportunities and mitigate the risks of AI on their specific areas of concern.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Yet to address these problems, we need to zoom in, convening experts, civil society and affected communities to explore sustainable solutions that work in the local context. These are the pillars on which we build our organizational culture: Inclusive collaboration, respect, commitment to learning and adaptability.

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Using ‘Purple Glasses’ to Achieve Gender Equity in Mexico

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This involves collaborating with women leaders in business and academia around the world, which extends the impact of our work locally and creates valuable professional relationships and partnerships. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.

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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

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How Organizations Build Trust

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It is earned person by person, moving through large segments of society. American civil society institutions have an important role to play. For leaders of civil society organizations, earning, rebuilding, and maintaining trust is a complicated but doable and essential undertaking to achieve their mission.