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How to Transform Strategic Planning for Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

We seek to honor the validity of lived experience , but our processes often fail to create the spaciousness and psychological safety necessary to surface and genuinely grapple with multiple experiences and perspectives.

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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

So, What is the Solution to Employee Retention? Psychological contracts are the unwritten expectations and obligations between employers and employees. Nonprofits can create strong psychological contracts by aligning organizational values with staff passions.

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

By naming what is wrong, it becomes possible to begin a journey through organizational change. Once a problem is identified, the first necessary phase of change involves developing new alternatives. If drawn into these patterns, the liberatory organizational change the group was aiming for becomes fragile and tenuous.

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

8] Instead, Black leaders tend to be appointed to manage strategic crises and organizational change. Parker, Race, Gender, and Leadership: Re-Envisioning Organizational Leadership From the Perspectives of African American Women Executives (New York: Psychology Press, 2015). [5] . … A somewhat different perspective.is

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

Victory: Defining an organizational victory. Organizational change victory. “If If you could change anything to better [this charity], what would it be?”[103] The influential fundraiser: Using the psychology of persuasion to achieve outstanding results. John Wiley & Sons. 69] Ross, B. & & Segal, C.