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Overcoming Barriers to influence: Leading without Formal Authority

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

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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CNPE announces our new CEO

CNPE

In addition to the classes, CNPE offers an experienced group of consultants who work with organizations on strategic and operational planning, increasing board effectiveness, developing program outcome measurements, governance, and general organizational development. CNPE’s roster of upcoming classes are available here.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. policy and advocacy, research and legal assistance, communications and narrative change, leadership and organizational development).

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Coffey to step down as CEO of Center for Nonprofit Excellence

CNPE

Our classes help organizations work more effectively and efficiently – which means they can do more with the support they receive from foundations, corporate or individual donors.” She also said the work couldn’t have been done without the support of foundations, including the James Graham Brown Foundation, the C.E.&

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Trusting Youth to Lead

NonProfit Quarterly

Hazen Foundation provided funding for CYC to engage youth and community stakeholder voices in the transition process, leading to the creation of a transition committee that consisted of three board members, three staff, and three youth representatives of CYC’s foster youth membership. The Edward W.

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Capacity Building as a Tool for Transformation

NonProfit Quarterly

Increasingly, we’re calling ourselves coaches—and not consultants—because we know that organizational development that fails to center people does not achieve durable impact. In our soon-to-be released strategic plan, we champion community-based organizations and advocate for them in philanthropy.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.