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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

founder and CEO of The Humanity Studio, and co-author with Kelly Monahan of Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI and Global Shifts Arte Creating A New Human-Powered Leadership, Technology is outpacing leader capabilities. With the enormous potential impact of AI, Smith adds, We need to equip leadership to understand the technology.

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Report Assesses Impact of Philanthropic “Big Bet” on Employee Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. The second area of gains is in the realm of public policy. And at the state level, the manufacturing extension partnerships or MEPs. There are additional benefits beyond the direct economic gains. One concerns field knowledge. One concerns field knowledge.

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Corporate Power That Benefits All of Us

Stanford Social Innovation Review

However, today, bold leadership like this faces stiff political headwinds, and some businesses have pulled back. It is, of course, counterproductive for companies to support efforts like these while they advocate for public policies known to exacerbate inequality.

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Segregation Helped Build Fortunes. What Does Philanthropy Owe Now?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To understand Morris Cafritz’s activities required reading on the history of Washington DC, on the history of real estate development, and on race and public policy. When that happens, the goal is to contextualize what direct evidence is available in increasingly broad concentric circles. It was profitable to do so. As historian N.D.B.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

Shaken by mass unemployment that at one point reached nearly 25 percent, Americans’ faith in business leadership faltered, leading to an unprecedented range of federal intervention in economic life. The National Association of Manufacturers, for example, saw its membership fall from over 5,000 businesses to fewer than 1,500.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, corporate and philanthropic dollars don’t always flow toward economic justice movements for a variety of reasons, which include everything from a lack of understanding of new leadership and organizational structures to grappling with supporting leaders of color dismantling systems of economic and social oppression. More than 1.1

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.