Remove Civil Society Remove Leadership Remove Organizational Development Remove Values
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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

Independent Sector is a broad cross-sectoral national membership organization that includes nonprofits, private foundations, and corporate giving programs with a mission to strengthen civil society. That is how we deeply institutionalize values around giving, collective values around giving. We did not want to compete.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A portfolio with more locally led organizations needs to be valued, specifically (though not exclusively), as an investment in the local NGO sector and the problems the sector is trying to address. But they need to invest in the organizational development prioritized by the organization , not just by the funder.