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.

Leadership 72

Leadership Organizational Change Nonprofits Values 72

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Certified Business and Body Knowledge Coach Stephanie Wood, in her new book, The Body Knowledge Entrepreneur: How to Navigate Your Unique Style for Business Success, explains why many face burnout and feel disconnected from purpose. 1,” activist Angela Y. mustread ” 12. Overworked and burned out.

Culture 107

Culture Leadership Universities Psychology 107

Fundraising Leadership

OCTOBER 3, 2022

To speak at The Women’s Collaborative We Mean Business Conference, the brainchild of its organizer Sharon Jackson , I had to fly from Phoenix to San Juan. They definitely mean business: entrepreneurial, visionary, and collaborative. Quite a few had nonprofits empowering women in addition to their main job or business.

Participation and motivation 52

Participation and motivation Collaborations Leadership Universities 52

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

I’d honestly never really considered drafting our business values in a formal way. We teach several different styles of thought leadership, but what they have in common is the willingness to say something others are not saying or to say it out loud in a new way. We don’t know yet. . Just being them seemed good enough.

Leadership 142

Leadership Nonprofits Entrepreneurship Values 142

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2023

LaTresse Snead: First, I want to just share my perspective as a Black woman in the nonprofit space. LS: I think a lot of it is rooted in racism, that Black people just need to be quiet, listen, not raise your voice, not be seen as the angry Black woman. “I wish I had found my voice a little bit earlier.”

Leadership 52

Leadership Recruitment Foundations Nonprofits 52

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

The Black Leader’s Burden In the past three years, many of us who have been advancing justice initiatives have either questioned or outright criticized traditional top-down leadership as one root cause of the perpetuation of structural racism. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. They seek to unionize.

Leadership 92

Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 92

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As Sarita Gupta and I note in our book The Future We Need , a healthy democracy is a system in which all people have various pathways to consult, confer with, and collectively govern themselves. And it’d do us good to mine the lessons that they’ve so generously laid out for us. Mercifully, workers showed us a better way.

Public and Social Policy 87

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 87

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

I’m writing a piece right now called “Leadership Is Voice,” which is based on [Michel] Foucault’s last series of talks on parrhesia , the parrhesiastes , the history of truth telling—and how in Western thought there has always been an obsession with trying to identify who was a truth-teller and how truth telling was done.

Leadership 100

Leadership Culture Philanthropy Values 100

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leadership is a renewable resource—but only if approached with a spirit of self-renewal. A central lesson that emerged is that I could renew myself and my work by asking, over and over, in different ways: What is my highest, best use? There, I met a 42-year-old “blind” Indigenous Chocó woman.

Public and Social Policy 128

Public and Social Policy Health Energy Leadership 128

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You are super busy for a couple of reasons why that I’m going to mention here in a second, but it’s awesome to have you back. When I started in the sector right after grad school, I realized that there weren’t a lot of folks who I thought looked like me who were in leadership roles. How’s it going?

Management 89

Management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Children 89