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How UPROSE Is Creating Clean Energy in Brooklyn

NonProfit Quarterly

The solar developer builds clean-energy projects that help communities acquire long-term wealth and energy assets through impact investing, technical support, and project financing. All the energy produced by the array will be sent to the Con Edison grid. How will Sunset Park Solar work? says Yeampierre.

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Chief Storyteller & Nonprofit Leader to Emcee 2023 Nonprofit Leadership Conference

NonProfit Leadership Center

As the Nonprofit Leadership Center prepares to bring nearly 1,000 leaders together for two days of collaboration and knowledge sharing, we are thrilled to announce that Ernest will be the emcee of our 2023 Nonprofit Leadership Conference: Together We Will on October 19 and 20. “As Every participant walks away with renewed promise."

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Making The Best of It All: Founder, CEO, Entrepreneur On Leading With Energy, Intention

Fundraising Leadership

It can also give you the energy you need to find and fulfill your entrepreneurship goals and “do it without being exhausted,” says Amy Leigh Looper, founder and CEO of Leading Motherhood. “ careersuccess #intentioning ” After her children were born, Looper says, “I believed the myth that I had to step out of leadership.”

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Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Names Interim President for a Planned Leadership Transition

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Names Interim President for a Planned Leadership Transition. KANSAS CITY, MO – After more than 17 years of leadership at the national organization, Susan Tomlinson Schmidt, CNP, is stepping down as President of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance effective September 30, 2022.

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Is Imposter Syndrome rare or everywhere in nonprofit leadership?

Nonprofit Fixer

I believe imposter syndrome is pervasive and could be the greatest threat to nonprofit leadership. Nonprofit leadership takes different forms – many of which can set people up to feel like imposters. Volunteers are often asked to take on significant leadership roles. And focusing on how we don’t measure up is wasted energy.

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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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Nonprofit Leadership Lessons From Dr. Paul Farmer

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. Here are three lessons that were key to his approach to leadership: 1. ” This notion extends to many other fields of leadership in business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.