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Wartime Digital Resilience

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Even before the conflict, we in government believed that technology holds the promise of making government more transparent, efficient, and accountable, empower citizens, increase participation, and combat corruption. Leadership for Digital Transformation Change begins with leadership.

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When Leadership Requires Keeping Your Hand On the Plow

Fundraising Leadership

Paul started the National Women’s Party after the 19th Amendment was adopted, believing that without a political organization’s leadership that could use the newfound legal clout, women’s concerns would never be taken seriously by politicians. It was a failing of the prevailing leadership to think they had won. How right she was!

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Why Settle for Cookie-Cutter People and Culture Practices?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). That may seem obvious, but we have all had our experiences with less-than-stellar situations.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. We’ve got almost 100% participation and it looks like it’s a tie. The leadership changed.

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In This Together: The Power of a Movement

Fundraising Leadership

The Civil Rights Movement also made me aware of the gendered discrepancies in leadership and set me forth on my career goal of gender parity, because I saw the women doing most of the necessary slogging hard behind the scenes work while men almost inevitably assumed the high profile leadership roles. Sound familiar? So very true.

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Protecting Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Mutual Aid Funds

NonProfit Quarterly

Where politically motivated captivity for civil rights activists loomed, bail funds responded. After Greenpeace mounted a campaign targeting Energy Transfer Partners (the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline), the company filed RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charges in 2016.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. 11 Second, many of our efforts also failed to center workers’ full identities, underestimating the motivations that lead them to risk their livelihoods to organize.