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Innovative Leadership — Culture Doesn’t Have to Eat Strategy: Tending to Human Factors During Strategic Planning

Blue Avocado

The phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is often true – certainly there are situations where strategy is consumed by culture – but strategy and culture are not mutually exclusive. Focus on values. We wanted our values to challenge the status quo and not reinforce it. Build teams and leaders.

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Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Hayley Roffey For some organizations, co-leadership starts from the top down. We had seen inspirational examples of co-leadership in partner grassroots organizations worldwide. But GFC had already benefitted from co-leadership at regional levels, as well as on our board, with co-chairs.

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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact 

Candid

Beyond representation: A commitment to DEI brings in new voices and perspectives The Ford Foundation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion starts at the top, with our leadership: our executive team, our board of trustees, and our program officers, who decide where our funding goes.

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Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sandhya Nakhasi , Jennifer Swayne Njuguna & Jess Yupanqui Feingold This week, SSIR is publishing a miniseries on co-leadership. Is co-leadership having a moment? Single leadership is still the default norm, or at least the devil we know. Weve learned that the move to co-leadership need not, at this stage, be ubiquitous.

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The Ultimate Guide to Defining Your Nonprofit Target Audience

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Thats where Engagement Mindsets come ina research-backed framework created by Nonprofit Marketing Guide (NPMG) that helps nonprofits move beyond surface-level demographics and into values-driven communication. This approach is based on Schwartzs Theory of Basic Human Values , which has been validated across cultures and industries.

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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

Blue Avocado

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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Black Imagination as Strategy: Reclaiming Creativity in Nonprofit Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

What if nonprofit leadership stopped treating imagination like a luxury and started seeing it as critical infrastructure? But internally, it’s often stifled by urgency culture, bureaucracy, and fear. What if nonprofit leadership stopped treating imagination like a luxury and started seeing it as critical infrastructure?