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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? Even on the banks of the Ahwash River in Hadar, I’m promoting Take The Lead and the 9 Leadership Power Tools. Next up: From Lucy to Leadership: In Search of Origins. Come on, admit it.

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In This Together: The Power of a Movement

Fundraising Leadership

The Civil Rights Movement also made me aware of the gendered discrepancies in leadership and set me forth on my career goal of gender parity, because I saw the women doing most of the necessary slogging hard behind the scenes work while men almost inevitably assumed the high profile leadership roles.

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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness.

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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. At the leadership level, just under 3% of police chiefs at local police departments are women, according to the U.S.

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Improvisation Over Strategy: What Nonprofit Managers Can Learn from Theater

NonProfit Quarterly

SD: At a National Community Reinvestment Coalition Conference last year, you mentioned you majored in sociology and theater. I thought I was appeasing my family by tagging on sociology. That is the critique we give to them and the technical assistance we provide, and then our own leadership sometimes is not following those principles.

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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.