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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. ” during check-in meetings.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

For their part, the occupants of the national office were content with this relationship: the dues allowed the national headquarters to engage in an advocacy strategy reliant upon public relations and court battles to eventually change the legal status of Black Americans. To put it bluntly: We fight. We disagree.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com It’s not often that a body of work comes along that makes us ask big questions about the nonprofit sector. Claire Dunning’s new book, Nonprofit Neighborhoods , is one. In it, she not only traces the development of the nonprofit sector.