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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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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.