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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? What would their influence be?

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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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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For a social sector organization or any other system to do this, it must ask: Are we prepared to make room for people to practice leadership in ways that differ from conventional management styles? Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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How to Restore the Care in Long-Term Nursing Care

NonProfit Quarterly

Research on ESOPs has shown that employees in such companies are more motivated and have higher retention rates than workers at investor-owned companies (Hricko and Starr 2014; Jenkins and Chivers 2022; Josephs 2021). Journal of European Social Policy 22 (4): 377–91. Paying for Success: An Appraisal of Social Impact Bonds.”