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Black Imagination as Strategy: Reclaiming Creativity in Nonprofit Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

What if nonprofit leadership stopped treating imagination like a luxury and started seeing it as critical infrastructure? What if nonprofit leadership stopped treating imagination like a luxury and started seeing it as critical infrastructure? It is not simply aesthetics; it is strategy.

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Philanthropy Must Accelerate Spending and Broaden Collaboration

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Fundamentally, philanthropy is made up of mission- and values-driven organizations. We do not exist to generate revenue or to manage assets; we exist to stand up for our stated values and to support individuals and organizations that can help meet our missions. We can make the biggest difference when we collaborate at scale.

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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

Blue Avocado

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We need creative, diverse collaborations across various fields to ensure that technology is deployed in ways that align with nonprofit values, build trust, and serve the greater good. Seeking partners outside of the tech world helps nonprofits develop AI solutions that are context-aware, equitable, and resource-sensitive.

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Elevate Conference 2025: Take Your Nonprofit Off Autopilot

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Elevate Conference is your opportunity to come together, spark new ideas, and cultivate the connected communities needed to drive meaningful change. This conference is your chance to connect with fellow changemakers, share bold ideas, and spark the collaborative action needed to shape the future.

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Unlocking the Value of Circles

NonProfit Quarterly

While peer circles are widely used in corporate and educational contexts, their value to nonprofits and community organizers is underappreciated. Unlike traditional top-down models, peer-to-peer circles are often informal, collaborative, and based on the idea that everyone has valuable knowledge to share.

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32 Rising Nonprofit Leaders Chosen for 2023 Certificate in Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Center

This person is valued by their peers and supervisors. There’s just one problem, they’ve never managed others or received formal management or leadership training to prepare them for this new opportunity. That’s why the Nonprofit Leadership Center created the Certificate in Leadership program.