NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Amazon is known for its culture of innovation - a culture that is grounded in 16 Leadership Principals. Leadership Principles are used every day, whether discussing ideas for new projects or deciding on the best way to solve a customer problem.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Register for our free webinar on November 14, Secrets of Successful Nonprofit Leadership: Leveraging Data to Tell the Story of your Mission, click here.

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.orgSource

MAY 28, 2024

Sue’s deep experience with boards and leadership makes her the perfect resource for a conversation about coaching new and more seasoned directors. Leadership training helps directors to learn and practice the skills needed to navigate the complexities of board service. ASAPS had a leadership training program.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2025

While the governance landscape has evolved, the strategies and leadership insights shared here remain timeless. Staff were expected to practice the same transparency with leadership and committee members. Are you fostering an entrepreneurial culture within your leadership team? Trust wasnt just a top-down initiative.

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DonorPerfect

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Thats why our partnership with nonprofit leadership expert Joan Garry, founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab, comes at a perfect time, as she offers her invaluable advice to help you navigate shifts and fundraise effectively.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. Elizabeth Brink: The co-leadership model is pretty deep in the organization. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO ! and Fast Company. Though some U.S. JG: We have about 300 co-leaders.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 25, 2023

Remembering the lyrics from a Spice Girls song might help you with this essential-but-often-overlooked part of leadership. Since leading a nonprofit involves so many moving targets, it can be easy to forget to build the people around you.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader. In these cases, the board chair most often becomes the de facto ED at some point.

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2025

Build a Compelling Business Case While most nonprofit finance leaders understand the importance of technology, presenting a compelling case to executive leadership or the board can be more challenging. Want to learn more about how to get leadership buy-in for your organizations technology investments?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This is especially true when discussing with donors a change in leadership at your school, foundation, or nonprofit. Empathy : When youre practicing empathy, youre taking the time and effort to fully appreciate how a donor is feeling about the change in leadership. And most organizations are not ready.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We had board and staff strategic planning task forces, both with the goals to develop strong, high functioning teams and elevate leaders and the organization’s leadership capacity. We often started our working sessions with leadership and teaming exercises and discussions, and we then put those learnings into practice throughout the process.

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.orgSource

MAY 14, 2024

At.orgCommunity’s March 13 Leadership ColLAB, the group discussed how to use technology to put HEART into our relationships with our members, staff, and constituents. The post.orgCommunity Leadership ColLAB Gets to the HEART of Technology appeared first on.orgSource. They are the teams that understand how to humanize business.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 16, 2024

Here's a look at my journey to becoming a leader in the nonprofit world as a woman, and what the sector should take away from my experiences.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

At the moment, confidence in leadership is at an all time low, according to the 2024 Leadership Confidence Index. But in my experience working with senior executives as an executive coach and organization design consultant, bad leadership is often manufactured by an organization designed, albeit unintentionally, to produce bad leaders.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Your nonprofit board is a group dedicated to helping you succeed. Sometimes though, you feel terribly alone. There is help. Matt Sharp, about his time as COO with RunningWorks: “During a time of uncertainty for the organization’s future, Turnkey’s Anne Marie Forbes worked with our board to bring us together in thought and action.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 2, 2023

As we know, nonprofits are essential for society. But now more than ever, it’s vital for nonprofits to remain ahead of the curve at a time when generative AI captured the imaginations of the public.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 24, 2023

Many bridgers — business leaders who venture into the nonprofit world — find it harder to succeed in this sector than they initially thought. I talked to five leaders who made the transition to get their insights and share the realizations they had after facing unexpected challenges.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In those cases, Id wait to ensure that this high performer is making an effort to work on leadership quality, including their peer relationships. Leadership requires a new skill set and, just as importantly,the respect and trust of your peers. Leadership starts with accountability. Have you been overly competitive?Dismissive

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.orgSource

MARCH 25, 2025

To remain competitive and continue its advocacy work effectively, 340B Health needed a new approach to leadership, governance, and operational agility key principles of Association 4.0 Provided leadership training focused on risk assessment and strategic execution. This uncertainty made long-term strategic planning challenging.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. They want to feel connected to their leadership and understand the values and the objectives of the company. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! and Fast Company.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

National Leadership Day, which takes place every Feb. 20 , offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. So this National Leadership Day is a good time to reflect: How do you build trust in your leadership?

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Despite sizable investment in leadership training, the issue of inadequate leadership has not yet been addressed. As the saying goes, people do not leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses. Here is some guidance on how to make sure your organization is choosing the right leaders.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In September 2024, Candid and ABFE published two fact sheets about Black nonprofit leadership : Key Facts about Nonprofits with Majority Black Leadership and Key Facts about Nonprofits with Black CEOs. Invest in early to mid-career staff: Create leadership development programs for staff other than the executive staff.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 21, 2025

Steps to Define Your Vision and Goals: Engage Stakeholders: Involve leadership, staff, and members in developing your vision. A well-defined, member-focused vision provides a foundation that aligns your team and inspires progress. A shared vision ensures alignment and buy-in across the organization.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The breakthrough rocked confidence in Silicon Valleys AI leadership, leading Wall Street investors to wipe billions of dollars of value from US Big Tech stocks. Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To help nonprofits set their priorities for the year ahead, NonProfit PRO, powered by NAPCO Research, conducted the “2023 Nonprofit Leadership Impact Study." Here are some of the key takeaways from the study, which was conducted in November 2022.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It’s got my wheels turning about leadership, and here’s why: While 87% of employees report that they are productive at work, […] The post Addressing the productivity disconnect appeared first on CharityVillage. This article was originally published by YMCA WorkWell and is reprinted with permission.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities. Nonprofits miss opportunities, fail to innovate, and struggle to stay competitive when their leadership is distracted by board interference.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 29, 2024

A championfor affordable and decent housing, he and Rosalynn Carter donated their time and leadership each year to build and improve homes with Habitat around the world, was the official statement from Habitat For Humanity International, based in Atlanta. Habitat for Humanity joins the world in mourning the death of former U.S.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

If your nonprofit finds itself without a leader and a succession plan, interim leadership might offer a temporary solution. Here's how.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 6, 2024

The path through the Great Exhaustion lies not in groundbreaking strategies but in embracing foundational leadership practices.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 11, 2023

Leadership is complicated. But it’s not impossible. Fortunately, there may be an easy and powerful key to uniting your team's expectations with your organization’s need to get work done. The key is curiosity.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Your leadership is essential and your impact is changing lives. Nonprofit COOs are the operational glue that hold our teams together. You foster collaboration, implement robust systems, and ensure regulatory compliance. Yet, many COOs are underutilizing a powerful resource – the nonprofit team at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The report outlined seven high-level themes to that should take center stage in advancing the transitional leadership profession. Third Sector Company released its first annual “The State of the Interim Profession in the Nonprofit Sector” report.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Beyond representation: A commitment to DEI brings in new voices and perspectives The Ford Foundation’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion starts at the top, with our leadership: our executive team, our board of trustees, and our program officers, who decide where our funding goes.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Below are four practical tips that will make your planning less stressful while also strengthening your leadership. Because nonprofit leaders have a lot to manage, strategic planning often drops down on the priority list for nonprofits, but it doesn’t have to be this way.

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