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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

As social change leaders, you are responsible for fostering a culture of growth and development within the organization, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills to drive the organization forward. How could you implement a cross-organizational initiative knowing that everyone is focused on their own priorities?

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To allow community organizers and community priorities to lead the way, BHC planning meetings became a node for resident-led organizations to connect, build relationships, access resources, and collaboratively shape campaigns and initiatives around community-defined priorities.

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2022 Nonprofit Leadership Conference Breakout Speakers & Sessions

NonProfit Leadership Center

While financial and human capital are essential for success, social capital — the connections and shared values that exist between people and enable cooperation — is the key ingredient for long-term growth and impact. As leaders look toward the future, they face critical choices about organizational culture and sustainability.

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

Fund development is, first, organizational development…. It’s a big job, serving as a development officer. Bigger than far too many development officers (or their bosses and boards) think. You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators.

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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. It can mean supporting networking and collaboration across local entities rather than competitive funding mechanisms.

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In Defense of Big Bets

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When we awarded the first $100 million grant in 2017 to a collaboration between the International Rescue Committee and Sesame Workshop —both highly experienced and large organizations—we provided them with six months to outline plans, with support from our expert advisors, for how they might effectively absorb and deploy the funds.