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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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Worn paths and nonprofit organizational structure

Fundraising Coach

Not surprisingly, our by-laws need updating. We’ve come through much of the organizational development dance of the first 4 years. Share and Enjoy: Other Possibly Related posts: The Folk Dance of Nonprofit Organizational Development. The economy is totally different. But now we have some very well worn paths.

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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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