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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund.

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‘Genius’ Awards For Nonprofits

The Agitator

million) enables peer learning and collaboration among more than 100 affordable housing and community development leaders. Family Care International – New York, New York ($1 million) makes pregnancy and childbirth safer for mothers worldwide through research, advocacy, and partnerships.

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The Nonprofit Sector and Social Change: A Conversation between Cyndi Suarez and Claire Dunning

NonProfit Quarterly

I went to grad school to study nonprofit management with a focus on alternatives to hierarchy, and…I started to really study hierarchy. It’s a collaborative facilitation and consulting firm. We are seeing articles about all the things that executive directors of color need to do in order to make organizations democratic.