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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When the legendary physician and advocate Paul Farmer unexpectedly passed away at the age of 62 in February, he was called a hero , a visionary , and a global health giant. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. Practice the “hermeneutic of generosity.”

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted in Western colonial ideology are failing, being renegotiated, and getting deconstructed—even in the face of intense backlash. Our leadership, needed now more than ever, is being tested like never before.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty.

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Should We Build New Homes in a Burning World?

NonProfit Quarterly

People living in poverty face greater fallout from climate change, as do people of color , Indigenous communities , and people with disabilities, who are four times more likely to die in disasters than people who do not have a disability. have serious health and safety hazards, such as gas leaks, damaged plumbing, and poor heating.

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What Does Tribal Land Stewardship Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Two years ago, Raymond Foxworth of First Nations noted in NPQ that “Native people have long held a worldview that connects human and community health to the health of land and the environment. Three Themes: Holistic Stewardship, Sovereignty, and Leadership Development.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

What I cared about was poverty, poor people, and those on the margins—those with less material resources. Then I did more studying at the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health. CS: You’ve been a leader in this work for a long time, probably even before people were really talking about health justice in quite this way.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. Most importantly, the team has elevated a new generation of diverse leaders who are contributing new energy to Akron’s civic spaces. The city’s Black business district was devastated.