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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

And I knew the most important thing I had to do, in those first weeks and months, was to address this culture I had inherited. Some were pretty shell-shocked from past toxic bosses and experiences they had throughout their careers.  It was as if they couldn’t quite convince themselves that I meant that I wanted the culture to be different.

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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The organizational culture was one of fear, poor communication, an abundance of rules, and micromanaging. Renjilian holds a Masters in Social Policy Analysis from the University of Chicago and has served as the Executive Director of Community Connections for Children since 2011.

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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

But where did they come from, and why are they still a central part of economic policy today? This series— Ending Work Requirements — based on a report by the Maven Collaborative, the Center for Social Policy, and Ife Finch Floyd, will explore the truth behind work requirements.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Governments and their policies in far off places can affect food supply or the spread of disease at home and can go further to impact elections, social policy, and even violent conflicts with loss of life. Today, we observe phenomena with much broader reach.

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Five Steps to Nonprofit Messaging Success

Getting Attention

It has helped clients achieve a variety of goals : advancing social policy, raising money, establishing corporate identity, promoting new business practices, and explaining complex ideas. Using a simple, consistent process over time may build a messaging culture. Use simple words not jargon.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To engage with the agency, people from these communities needed culturally relevant content and more-accessible programming. When Leadership and Limiting Systems Collide In systems of all kinds, individuals practicing leadership often come up against the constraints of limiting, exclusionary, and unjust conditions and cultures.

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Thinking About the Long Term With Philanthropic Power Building

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Organizers who have long relied on agitation and confrontation to hold institutions accountable may need to develop new skills and new allies to shift both culture and capacity. Some organizations are serving as critical political and social homes for individuals who have been impacted by racial trauma and economic distress.