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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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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. We are here to talk about philanthropic leadership. Yeah, engaging those board members to be fundraising ambassadors.

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Systems Change: Making the Aspirational Actionable

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These leaders often elucidate systems change through example, calling out important elements such as collective action, proximate leadership, research and evaluation, and policy change. Policy change can also fail to have a long-term impact when societal attitudes don’t shift in kind.

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Living Beyond the Constructs: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Marcus Walton

NonProfit Quarterly

I want that infrastructure to go toward spreading this story and hosting these conversations, so it’s not just you and me, it’s you plus the next leader in a particular area—to help us all understand: What does leadership look like in this space? I end up being real patient and real sweet and all this stuff, so I get it.

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Walmart Heirs Bet Big on Journalism

NonProfit Quarterly

The foundation board is legally independent of Walmart. I think it would be hard to not engage with those groups or work with those groups but in terms of special treatment, I think it’s really more what’s newsworthy and what’s going to drive interest in stories.” And grants are promised with no strings attached.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

Just look for an email from me towards the end of the day. If you use the Q&A box, it might have a little higher chance that I’ll call it out at the end. . But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. The leadership changed.

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Get rid of board term limits!

Nonprofit Fixer

Today I want to talk about nonprofit board term limits and why I am (generally) opposed to them for most nonprofit boards. and the vast majority have small budgets, small teams, small boards, and small bank accounts. Much ink has been spilled telling people how to recruit, retain, and remove board members.