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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. Sara Razavi: Within the CDFI [ community development financial institution ] space, we are a nonprofit loan fund. Absolutely.

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

Fundraising Leadership

Small Business Administration 2022 Woman Small Business Champion of the Year and one of the country’s 50 fastest growing women-led companies by Women’s Presidents Organization and JP Morgan Chase. But I pushed myself, worked really hard doing big projects, developing policies and procedures.” She was named a U.S.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

The unwieldiness of the burden carried by prisoners’ family members, overwhelmingly poor women of color, highlights two urgent policy tasks: making individual restitution to them as victims of the political violence of mass incarceration and developing an adequate public safety net that does not depend on women’s costly invisible labor.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

Despite these obstacles and in the face of ever-increasing need, the two of us swing on a heavy pendulum between naiveté and boldness and scarcity and abundance, as we experiment with nonprofit community birth center models in two major metropolitan cities. Lived Experience, Dialogue, and Knowledge Claims.

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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. March 14, 2023 at 9:05 a.m. March 14, 2023 at 1:05 p.m.