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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. SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Yermine Richardson/ www.popcaribe.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s spring 2024 issue, “‘Stop Drowning Us, and Stop Making Us Disappear’: A Critical Report on the State of Black Woman Leadership.” But she doesn’t cede power, nor does she trust Black women’s leadership.

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Safety First: CEO Grows Organization, Leads Communities By Doing The Right Thing

Fundraising Leadership

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. I take care of everyone,” Chan Shue says. They call me Mother Teresa.” Bureau of Justice Statistics.”

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For the Love of Humankind: End of Year Fundraising for Community impact

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

As marketing, development and leadership team members, we work toward a common cause within the organization. She moved to Chicago after high school to study Political Science and Sociology at DePaul University. We plan and evaluate, just to say, “We met our goals,” or that the work we’re doing is great for the community.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Qualitative research suggests that female family members provide extensive case management, mental health care, housing, job searches, and transportation assistance on behalf of their incarcerated and reentering loved ones, as well as laboring to keep them out of trouble with police and parole officers. 2 (2012): 216–43. Gordon Parker et al.,

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

44 We make space for preparing and debriefing together as we practice being in radical relationship with each other, our funders, and our boards—growing shared leadership models and endeavoring to redistribute power within and outside our organizations. The spirit of care and leadership matter. 11 (November 2020): 1–12.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

And something we’re really known for here, but if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, Bloomerang is also a provider of donor management software. Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations.