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One of the Most Important Leadership Qualities That’s Often Overlooked

NonProfit Leadership Center

A positive climate supports employees’ well-being and fosters a culture where team members feel valued. Leaders should facilitate positive energy and minimize self-sabotaging behavior to strengthen interpersonal connections and encourage collaboration.

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4 Necessary Culture Shifts To Help You Navigate Change Management

Bloomerang

Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change. There are 4 culture shifts that a nonprofit organization needs to make to maintain change management. Adopt a culture that values feedback. Adopt a culture that supports flexibility. Inviting creativity.

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Building a Culture of Wellness

MNA Association

Living is an improvisational art,” wrote cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson in her seminal book, Composing a Life. Healing is our greatest use of energy, second only to digestion). Which might you explore, given your organization’s work culture? Personal Realm. Composing a life. What’s missing?

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? 5 Questions to Consider as You Plan for the Future

NonProfit PRO

They build energy around a bold vision for the future, engage leaders and key stakeholders in fundraising activity, and grow a strong culture of major giving. Capital campaigns are one of the most effective ways to galvanize transformational support for a nonprofit’s community.

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3 Questions to Ask Yourself to Create a Kinder, More Compassionate Workplace

NonProfit Leadership Center

Exhausted by what he describes as a soul-crushing culture, he decided to take his life by driving his car off an overpass in Los Angeles. Shola — a name that means “one who is blessed” — found his true purpose: to reverse negative workplace cultures and fight for all people who may be struggling. Is it necessary?

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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ Learning about your circadian rhythms—your forever biological clock—can inform how you work and lead your life.

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