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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

6 And it got me thinking about how the construction of this dam reflects a broad and long pattern of environmental injustice globally. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Guarding Trust: Overlooked Factors That Protect Your Nonprofit’s Reputation

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Regular updates through newsletters, social media, and community meetings create a culture of transparency, ensuring supporters feel included and engaged. Whether its a donor concern, a volunteer suggestion, or community input, responding constructively demonstrates accountability.

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Ancient, Powerful, and Particularly Feminine: Righting Our Relationship with Mama Earth

NonProfit Quarterly

Ubuntu as Art Nearly two years later, on Earth Day 2024, our Cultural Arts Circle excitedly announced 40 winners for the Ubuntu Climate Initiatives inaugural Climate Arts and Storytelling Showcase. We are living in a patriarchal system that prioritizes power, profit, and a hypercompetitive culture that overvalues individualism.

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A Reality Check for Nonprofit Co-Leadership

Stanford Social Innovation Review

At Wellspring, we have seen gifted, deeply committed, and mission-oriented co-leaders become misaligned on fundamental questions of strategy or organizational culture, ultimately reaching a place where each leader feels unable to compromise.

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Anchoring Communities: How to Combat Displacement Through Asset Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

Space isn’t just a physical location but rather the foundation for resilience, cultural expression, and long-term autonomy. In many of the same communities facing displacement, space isn’t just a physical location but rather the foundation for resilience, cultural expression, and long-term autonomy.

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Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The move to a co-leadership model has significant implications for organizational health and culture. Particularly with the fragile ecosystem that is organizational culture, leadership transition should not be abrupt, nor imposed from the outside, nor for the sake of experimentation itself.

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The Power of Possibility: A Growth Mindset Blueprint For Nonprofit Leaders

Bloomerang

Low staff morale: In organizations where failure is feared and not discussed constructively, staff may feel demotivated, undervalued, and reluctant to propose new ideas. This culture of ongoing improvement means that services are more likely to meet community needs effectively. Again, celebrate progress, not just results.