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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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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

8] Instead, Black leaders tend to be appointed to manage strategic crises and organizational change. They also felt the tension between the hostile manner in which the critique was delivered and what the authors describe as “the African diasporic cultural value of respecting our elders and never publicly challenging them.” [22]

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Questions to ask to advance the donor’s hero story

iMarketSmart

Connects to the donor’s original identity (history, people, or values), Promises the hope of a victory impacting the larger world, and. Because of my values, i.e., “Giving to this cause or charity fits my values.”. Because of my values, i.e., “My values make this impact meaningful to me.”. Identity: Values.

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Making Economic Democracy Work: How to Practice Shared Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

In more contemporary movements, we see these values embodied by groups including Ella Baker and the Young Negroes Cooperative League , the First Rainbow Coalition (Chicago Black Panthers Party) to the Combahee River Collective. By naming what is wrong, it becomes possible to begin a journey through organizational change.