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Reclaiming Heritage: The Global Push for Repatriation of Looted Artifacts

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2022, the Smithsonian voluntarily returned 29 of the bronzes to Nigeria as a result of adopting a new ethical returns policy earlier that year. A lot of people do act ethically, but we don’t hear a lot about that,” she notes, highlighting how people’s moral understanding of this situation is leading to more successful repatriations.

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Just Announced! 2023 Spring Nonprofit Training Events

NonProfit Leadership Center

new training events and certificate programs to help you renew your commitment to growth and to nurture your organization’s learning culture. Research shows that a growth mindset can foster grit, determination and work ethic. We’ve launched 17 (yes, 17!!!!) REGISTER NEW!

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Making the Case for Training & Development from Funders: 6 Keys to Nonprofit Growth

NonProfit Leadership Center

READ NEXT: Beyond Employee Training: How to Create a Learning Culture 2. Funding support for training and development enables leaders to enhance their strategic planning, financial management , fundraising and board governance skills.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives. This idea may not be as exaggerated as it sounds.

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Newsletter: Funding Freeze: What Nonprofits Must Do NOW; How to Approach Audience Research; FCC Investigates PBS, NPR Sponsorship Practices

Selfish Giving

First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Apply IDEA principles (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) Prioritize underrepresented voices, remove participation barriers, and ensure ethical storytelling. Three things this week. Fortunately, the hold was lifted.

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It’s Not in Your Mind: Addressing Mental Health Through a Social Justice Lens

NonProfit Quarterly

There is good reason to wonder whether collecting all types of suffering into medicalized mental health disorders is the most accurate or ethical approach when it comes to addressing these crises,” says Dr. Zenobia Morrill , a psychology professor at William James College.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. On the first page, she puts the mutualist ethic this way: “We can look to one another to solve the most intractable problems we encounter in our lives.”