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What Bagels Taught Me About Leadership

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

And while I wasn’t so naïve to think that the title didn’t come with assumed and real power, it certainly wasn’t my vision of leadership. In the past, we could not inform our staff of certain things until we had the go-ahead from upper management. I too had that kind of boss (more than once). We all have. About the Author: Christy S.

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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

I handpicked them, from across all departments : people who had been here for a long time, newbies, people with informal leadership, and people who were viewed as troublemakers.   And the majority of the management team was anxious about this new Advisory Committee. What would this committee tell me? But how do you do that?

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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. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

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Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

Want support to build capacity, with leaders reporting they lack the funds to invest in priorities like individual donor support and would benefit from coaching or training in areas like financial management and fundraising (11). Seek “diverse, authentic and trusting funding partnerships” that serve to genuinely benefit their own needs.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Local Collaboration Can Drive Global Progress on the SDGs

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Creating Inclusive Governance to Build Political Momentum In the United Kingdom, Bristol’s city government used a commitment to the SDGs to develop its unique One City Approach in 2016, a new model of governance that offers an active leadership role to outside partners in achieving the city’s priorities.

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Nonprofits as Battlegrounds for Democracy

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, grant dollars steadily fashioned the nonprofit sector as a site of planning, managing, and delivering social welfare goods and services, and what was designed as temporary or transitional quickly became permanent.” 11 White elites “remained resistant to more redistributive efforts such as tax reform or a federal jobs program….Instead,