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A New Culture for the Non Profit Sector: The Culture of Impact Brokers
In an online article titled “ Are Nonprofits Terrible Tech Clients?,” Holly Ross responds to the complaint that non profits are hard for technology providers (read: for-profits) to work with because they demand more and want it for less:
"Most funders won't pay admin costs. Donors expect increasingly large percentages of every dollar to go straight to program. We're not supposed to spend money on rent, phones, or, god forbid, computers. We're not supposed to hire the staff that keep our nonprofits humming -- the bookkeepers and admin folks. And we're not supposed to pay very much to anyone. That's the culture we live in. I don't like it. I wish our culture believed that nonprofits should be well-staffed and have adequate infrastructures. But that's not where we're at right now." read more »
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On August 18th, 2001, a diverse group of young leaders from northern to southern California me t for an afternoon to share their experiences as leaders working to build intercultural partnerships. Picking up where a dialogue between veteran intercultural leaders left off, the participants explored the relationships between identity, culture, organization, and leadership.
Authors: Taj James
Subjects: next generation, generational transfer, caas, culture
11/27/2001 - 00:00 - 0 comments - 1 attachment - Posted by Elissa Perry
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The Leadership Learning Community has partnered with the Annie E. Casey Foundation on a research project to draw on the combined experience of more than 100 leadership programs with regard to strategies for increasing the access to and sustainability of leadership positions for people of color in the sector. The first phase of the project focused on the "pipeline," was titled "Lessons from the Field of Leadership Development: How to Increase Leadership Opportunities for People of Color" and was led by Deborah Meehan. The second phase of the project was titled "Multiple Styles of Leadership: Increasing the Participation of People of Color in the Leadership of the Nonprofit Sector" and was led by Elissa Perry. Download the notes from one of the focus groups and reports from both phases of the work below.
Authors: Kate Oppenheimer, Jamie Schenker, Elissa Perry, Deborah Meehan
Subjects: bay area, race, pipeline, next generation, leadership styles, generational transfer, emerging leaders, culture
05/15/2007 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 5 attachments - Posted by Elissa Perry
