Why Nonprofit CEOs Must Be Community Relationship Champions
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 20, 2025
One of nonprofit CEOs' responsibilities is maintaining community relationships. Here's how CEOs and their teams can collaborate to build strong ties.
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NonProfit PRO
JUNE 20, 2025
One of nonprofit CEOs' responsibilities is maintaining community relationships. Here's how CEOs and their teams can collaborate to build strong ties.
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By Atti Worku , Degan Ali & David Bowermaster Philanthropic collaboratives are growing in popularity in Africa and share many similarities with their global peers, but they also have their own distinguishing traits. For one thing, African collaboratives tend to be underfunded relative to collaboratives in other parts of the world.
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Blue Avocado
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NonProfit PRO
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Candid
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
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By John Palfrey Nonprofits are facing a crisis, and many in the charitable sector are fearful. Many nonprofits have already gone underwater and more will. Talented and visionary leaders have and will leave the sector , with an estimated 14,430 full-time jobs in nonprofits lost as of the end of April.
NonProfit Quarterly
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Candid
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Candid
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Blue Avocado
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” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with.
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