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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

They studied hiring laws, human resource ethics, comparable market compensation, and the demands of building an organizational culture, and they drafted a comprehensive, values-aligned job description for the new executive director. Ask funders for succession planning resources to use before, during, and after the transition.

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Are you lying to your nonprofit board members?

Fundraising Coach

Our by-laws require a certain number of board members and we have to fill the slots. This type of culture shift will take time and effort. I wrote a post about this called out The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development.). That kind of question takes guts. Would you be able to ask it? The good news?

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Building the Solidarity Economy by Boosting Black-Owned Co-ops

NonProfit Quarterly

Interning at the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland, I got a bird’s-eye view of the cooperative ecosystem and what cooperatives could do. I was inspired by the large-scale cooperative development that happened in Italy and Spain. This is how the Kikosi Collective developed. Photo courtesy of Repaired Nations.

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