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“We’re Not Meant to Do Life Alone”: The Invisible Network of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

That kind of parent engagement isn’t just helpful—it’s nonprofit governance in action. Many PTAs, school foundations, and advisory councils operate as community-based nonprofits. It’s a commitment,” she said, “but it’s also one of the only ways to stay connected in middle school.” In the aftermath, people gave whatever they had.

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Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NBFP leaders and the nonprofit executive directors we spoke to agreed another key to unlocking value is for nonprofits to provide fellows with real experience (e.g. and only participating in NBFPs if the nonprofit is in a position to give fellows meaningful work.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When Nexleaf started in 2009, its co-founders aspired to bring the value of consistent sensor data to low-resource health systems. A single AI collaborative could, for example, bring together relevant datasets, researchers, nonprofits, governments, and more to advance AI across a focused set of use cases in a particular field.

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Executive Director

Anedot

Knowledge of nonprofit governance principles. Ability to be an eloquent advocate to the mission and values of our organization and awareness of fragility of equine welfare. Experience managing staff. Prior experience successfully being awarded grants.

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Getting nonprofit boards on board: Recruiting, governance, and fundraising

Candid

Strategies for strengthening nonprofit board governance A nonprofit governing board has a legal obligation to oversee management of the organization. The articles below explore how nonprofit boards can be most effective in this role: Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance.

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Exit to Open

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Open really means open, and that means that the released materials are available for other nonprofits, governments, and even businesses. Exit to Open has particular value when an organization and its work is being suppressed (as is happening in an increasing number of countries).

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Cultivating a Liberatory Board

NonProfit Quarterly

What makes the difference between the two is the people: their values and the culture they build together. We have so many arbitrary rules that limit our imagination of whats possible when it comes to nonprofit governance. An organizational structure is not inherently good or bad, equitable or inequitable.