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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. But I find I draw on it quite a bit because theater is such a collaborative art, and I am talking more about the collaborative nature of theater.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

44 We make space for preparing and debriefing together as we practice being in radical relationship with each other, our funders, and our boards—growing shared leadership models and endeavoring to redistribute power within and outside our organizations. The spirit of care and leadership matter. And ready to fight for it.

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