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Pitch Perfect: Take The Lead’s Entrepreneur Winners Share Success

Fundraising Leadership

Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead at the recent 50 Women in Entrepreneurship graduation and pitch competition. The 11 women leaders who pitched their new ventures at the recent 50 Women Can Change The World in Entrepreneurship graduation event to a panel of judges kept it short and sweet. million monthly payroll.

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Pursue Your Big Idea: 7 Best Tips For Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur

Fundraising Leadership

Lisa Gates, CEO and founder of Concierge 4 B2B, who recently won the 50 Women in Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition with Take The Lead, says, “We’re a people solution operation. Leadership Takeaway of The Week “You cannot be afraid to ask for what you want. So we hire rockstar talent. “ Know that failure is OK. Keep it up.

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Nonprofit Boards Efforts to Diversify

NonProfit Quarterly

Fortunately, in recent years, some nonprofits have successfully diversified their boards, recruiting members with lived experiences that align with the communities being served by paying attention to demographics such as age, race, socioeconomic status, education, religion, disability, and diversity in thought and professional experience.

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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Recruiting a cohort is tricky. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. With the focus community decided, it is then important to recruit people who are more likely to succeed. That only made the profit/loss calculation for childcare operators tighter.

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Secure Your Intention: Why You Need To Power Up At Women’s Equality Day Conference

Fundraising Leadership

” Read more on this year’s Power Up conference speakers With the historic and ongoing urgency for gender equity in leadership and all industries—not just media and entertainment—the necessity for connection and networking with powerful women leaders is critical in order to achieve leadership and pay parity. . ”

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How To Amplify PR Opportunities For Your Business

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Consider world-famous examples of entrepreneurship, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the likes. PR can play a huge part in different departments, including recruitment for key positions and product development. Let your PR team stand next to the leadership team because that’s how important the former is!

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

My colleagues and I began having conversations with educators, some of which were facilitated by our close partnership with two youth leadership-development and power-building Bronx institutions: Sistas and Brothas United (of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition) and The POINT Community Development Corporation in the South Bronx.