Nonprofits & NGOs
New Year’s Resolutions for Leaders of Social Change
A list of SSIR articles to help your team define and achieve its goals for doing better in 2020.
Tag: Leadership
Innovative ways leaders can achieve organizational and societal goals
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Leadership
The Neuroscience of Creativity
An excerpt from Tara Swart’s The Source explains how the brain’s ability to adapt can allow for better decision-making for social good.
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Business
What’s So Powerful About Storytelling?
An excerpt from Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader's Guide explores story as a way to command attention and persuade.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Strategy Done Wrong
An excerpt of Giving Done Right details the death of top-down philanthropy.
Organizational Development
A Trauma Lens for Systems Change
The Missouri Model lays out a framework, based on the science of trauma, that organizations can use to shift culture and policies and improve outcomes. A feature article from the Summer 2019 issue.
Podcast
Advocacy
Building a Communication Strategy for Diversity and Inclusion
Using insight from systems thinking and social, behavioral, and cognitive science, two communication experts describe how to craft stories and multimedia experiences that drive social change.
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Organizational Development
Changing Organizational Mindset
An excerpt from Brave New Work contends that managers should become “complexity conscious.”
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
Getting Local: Collaborating With Communities of Color
Leaders working on issues including public health, human rights, and economic development discuss how nonprofits can do better by treating the people they’re trying to help as partners, not patients.
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Leadership
The Five Roles of the Mature Leader
An excerpt from The Punk Rock of Business gives leadership a new, wild spin.
Podcast
Philanthropy & Funding
Dismantling Invisible Barriers to Capital
Nonprofit and philanthropic leaders discuss tools and strategies to help address systemic barriers to investment, power, and voice in the sector.