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Perplexed? Your Guide to Leadership at the Moral Crossroads

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 258 — May 6, 2024 Leadership lessons come from all kinds of places. They are looking for shared values and clarity about which side of history their employer is on. Both types of decisions demand strong leadership and effective communication. Clearly explain the rationale behind the decision and the values that guided it.

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

This question was at the center of an experiment led by the Nonprofit Democracy Network , a fiscally sponsored project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center. There is still much to learn, uncover, disrupt, and transform. The practice of self-governance requires a rejection of purity politics. Liberation is an active, daily practice.

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Nonprofit Externship Program Selects 5 Promising CNP Students

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance is proud to introduce the five students taking part in its inaugural Externship Program, a program designed to nurture and empower the next generation of nonprofit leaders. Direct Engagement: Interacting closely with the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance team.

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Leadership Is Voice

NonProfit Quarterly

In Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power , Robert K. Greenleaf asserts that prophetic voice—the voice that articulates what has yet to be said but is necessary for progress—is the highest form of leadership. They are both seeking to recover something of value that was lost.

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Operationalizing Co-Leadership Structures: Lessons from the Nonprofit Intermediary Field

NonProfit Quarterly

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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Leadership tensions in fundraising

Fundraising Coach

Leadership is not for the faint of heart! Leadership Tension 1: The Expert vs. the Learner. Leadership Tension 2: The Constant vs. the Adaptor. Leadership Tension 3: The Tactician vs. the Visionary. Leadership Tension 4: The Teller vs. the Listener. Leadership Tension 5: The Power Holder vs. the Power Sharer.

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Why you must deliver value in fundraising, not just take the money and run

iMarketSmart

It’s harder to think, “One day we’ll deliver value to a donor worth a million-dollar gift.” Delivering value as a goal Charities often don’t get a million-dollar gift because they aren’t trying. But they aren’t trying to deliver that much value. In fact, delivering value to the donor may not even make sense to them.

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