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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Ahmad Odeh on Unsplash In this interview, the CEO of a California-based CDFI offers her observations on what her work as a theater director has taught her about nonprofit management. Could you talk about what it means to manage a CDFI as if you were a theater director and the staff were actors?

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A Blueprint for Designing Better Digital Government Services

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For CODE PA to make that scenario a reality, the team and technologists across government and the Governor’s Office will need to simultaneously execute strategies in data sharing, simplification of identity and access management, and collaboration across agencies that has truly never occurred before.