NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 17, 2024

The value of business acumen in the nonprofit sector is so often underestimated, but Nicole emphasizes its importance in creating sustainable, reliable resources for those in need. “ I get to share what I’ve learned through the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance with leaders every day ,” she shares.

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite its popularity, leadership coaching remains a bit of a mystery to many people. We’ll cover: What is leadership coaching and what are the benefits How much nonprofit leadership coaching costs Standard elements in a leadership coaching engagement How to find a leadership coach What Is Leadership Coaching and How Is It Beneficial?

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 1963, Civil Rights activist Ella Baker said she was “very much afraid of this ‘Foundation Complex.’ 2 As Ruth Wilson Gilmore reminds us in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded , “Foundations are repositories of twice-stolen wealth—(a) profit sheltered from (b) taxes” (46). We’re getting praise from places that worry me.”

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NonProfit Leadership Center

APRIL 15, 2024

In organizational psychology, culture has three key elements: practices, values, and underlying assumptions. Practices are daily routines that reflect and reinforce values. Values are shared principles about what is important. These filters are related to key organizational stakeholder groups.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Journey Fueled by Passion: Growing up in a family that valued giving back to the community, she witnessed firsthand the power of philanthropy. ” These special moments laid the foundation for her future career. Since 2009, she has dedicated herself to the Tucson Foundations , founded by her grandfather.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 24, 2024

By acquiring philanthropic partners and showing the value of collaborating with your organization, you can secure their long-term support! Research like-minded businesses in your community: Businesses that share similar values or purposes are likely to partner with your nonprofit. Did you enjoy this story?

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 1, 2023

Incoming BIPOC leaders, in particular, are questioning how we reconcile commitments to dismantle oppressive systems externally while practicing a highly individualistic and heroic notion of organizational leadership internally. Thus, the seed was planted for co-leadership as a possible structure at ProInspire.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, the foundation of influence always begins with a good relationship and trust. A more useful alternative is to view your role as customer service. This is the foundation of moving from an order taker to a strategic advisor – demonstrating your ability to think big picture and holistically.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2023

And it is leadership that triggers this essential evolution. The Need for Different Leadership In 2021, when the Kaiser Family Foundation looked at how people fare across 27 key health measures , they found that Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans fared worse than their White counterparts in most areas due to chronic underfunding.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Have you taken the time to assess your expertise as a development professional from a leadership perspective? Due to this collective mastery, your work offers an invaluable skill set that uniquely positions development professionals for leadership at nonprofit and philanthropic agencies. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

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. We are pulled in many directions that uncomfortably exist at the same time.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

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. But it doesn’t have to be. These are not the same.

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Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I’m challenging you to share what’s on the shirt of your convictions about women’s leadership. It’s always women’s leadership that aims to use power for good, as Take The Lead teaches. Yet this metaphor symbolizes our collective commitment to women’s equality and parity in leadership. Here’s a template you can use.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

Why Developing Nonprofit Management Skills Is Important Encouraging professional development aligns with the intrinsic values of many nonprofits, such as growth, learning, and community improvement. When you can build relationships with supporters and sponsors, you’ll create a solid foundation of support. Diversify funding sources.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

It was here that Anjelica had the opportunity to participate in the American Humanics program, the predecessor to today’s Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. Jude, TNTP (The New Teacher Project), and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, where she was a NextGen Fellow through American Humanics.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 3, 2023

Cultural norms and values, such as gender roles and attitudes toward nature, guide economic and social interactions in communities. Challenging or redirecting established values is therefore at the heart of structural change. For example, in 2012 the MacArthur Foundation and the Burberry Foundation made $2.2

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Your nonprofit’s visual brand guidelines are the foundation of your visual identity. Align with your nonprofit’s mission and values. The best nonprofit websites out there have visuals with a clear connection to the organization’s mission and values. Review your nonprofit’s visual brand guidelines.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Significant racial equity advancement will remain elusive until organizations are willing to examine their own purpose, leadership, strategy, and culture. A 2022 racial equity audit by the Skillman Foundation uncovered some hard truths. How will leadership and staff be engaged in the process?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 10, 2023

Beyond the cost associated with replacement, high turnover rates also result in loss of institutional knowledge, lower productivity and morale, and community image issues. To help you better understand the “hidden” costs of employee turnover, the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has created a free Cost of Employee Turnover Calculator.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I handpicked them, from across all departments : people who had been here for a long time, newbies, people with informal leadership, and people who were viewed as troublemakers.   And the majority of the management team was anxious about this new Advisory Committee. People want to be seen, it’s a metric for being valued and appreciated.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 7, 2023

Even though that number has increased over the years, she continued to see a lack of representation at the C-suite and senior leadership levels of organizations. "I I know there are individuals like me who are qualified to be in leadership positions in the community. I found myself constantly asking why they weren't there.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image Credit: itsnnnoa on unsplash.com Nonprofit facilities communicate, and we need to be more conscious, thoughtful, and vocal about what they say about who and what our organizations value. Community Inspiration Finally, at the top-most level, a nonprofit facility can signal both the value of its mission and the people it serves.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

What Nonprofits Can Do Now While free-speech advocacy groups have long advocated for Big Tech accountability from a digital rights and privacy perspective, organizations across movements have been at the forefront of a values-centered tech policy perspective.

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Pam Moore

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Thought leadership is important for any person and brand wanting to establish themselves as a leader in a particular industry, niche, specific topic, trade or practice. Thought leadership is beneficial for both brands and humans. Building thought leadership takes time. You will reap what you sow. Click To Tweet.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For example, BoardSource’s classic Governance as Leadership reframes the fiduciary, strategic, and leadership roles of a trustee through a lens of generative discussion, and their Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership speaks to ecosystems, equity, and participant voice. Here, the issue becomes much less clear.

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Fundraising Leadership

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Wear the shirt,” is one of the 9 Leadership Power Tools introduced by Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take The Lead. ” “I wear my values on my sleeve,” said Lerner. “It It is not easy to live your values in business. But they are not values if you only practice them when they are convenient.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 4, 2023

By Gail Christopher & Deepa Iyer Across sectors, organizations in the United States have long placed barriers between women of color and leadership positions. When they do attain leadership roles, challenges persist; the intersectional threats posed by patterns of misogyny and racism intensify, rather than lessen.

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Pam Moore

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It's these common foundations that weave the threads for relationships, trust and community. It requires having a solid brand architecture and message foundation as well as knowing your audience and how you can serve them real value. 10 foundational elements and tips for successful brand storytelling.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

How can family foundations and donors stop perpetuating inequities within the communities and causes they serve? By centering community leadership, wisdom, and voices in grantmaking. Why do so few of these large foundations shift meaningful decisions and power to the communities they serve? Yet this is almost never the case.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Once the preserve of large foundations and mega-donors, impact investing is growing in popularity, including among women and younger generations. Of course, whether we’re writing checks to local charities, endowing a scholarship at our alma mater, or establishing a family foundation, we’re investing for impact. In 2023 alone, U.S.

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Fundraising Leadership

MARCH 25, 2024

Issue 255 — March 25, 2024 I often share the metaphor of a hammer in leadership development training and speaking. It’s the same with leadership. The leadership of women@amazon organized an extraordinary event. The leadership of women@amazon organized an extraordinary event. Power has no attributes of its own.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 8, 2024

There had been a lack of senior leadership, staff had been promoted into senior roles before they were ready, and funding infrastructure needed to be improved. For executives of color, nonprofit leadership is a ‘Hollow Prize.’ Political scientists coined the term “the Hollow Prize” for this doomed leadership.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 30, 2024

By prohibiting any future sale of the property to Black or other non-white owners, restrictive covenants gave white buyers confidence that their homes and neighborhoods would remain white enclaves and therefore retain the “ enduring value ” that Cafritz promised for his “lifetime homes.” Foundations could follow this model.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Last month, Deepak Bhargava became president of the JPB Foundation, which has over $2.8 That is actually the mission statement of the foundation now. Foundations can also support public engagement, voter registration…voting rights work, election protection, and election administration work.

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Fundraising Leadership

AUGUST 25, 2023

And when gender parity in leadership arrives, everyone wins. Read more in Take The Lead on 2022 Leading Company Award Winner “Being recognized by an organization that focuses on encouraging women to take their fair and equal share, and assume leadership roles is incredibly special. They are all in the fight to win.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

You can leverage trusted board members and donor networks to find great candidates who share your organization’s values. Board match programs in your community that your local community foundation or United Way may offer. Review board lists for organizations with shared values.

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