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An Invitation to Explore Indigenous Innovation
Indigenous traditions are key to building the relationships, reciprocity, and reconciliation that Canada needs for a strong future.
Leadership - Articles
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The Need for Cross-Sector Collaboration
Addressing today’s most pressing challenges requires developing the capacity to lead collaboratively and to effectively work across sectors.
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The Essential Skills of Cross-Sector Leadership
Becoming an effective cross-sector leader requires a set of skills built around three broad areas: building teams, solving problems, and achieving impact.
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Creating a Cross Sector Leadership Network
The James Irvine Foundation’s New Leadership Network provides lessons about how to foster civic innovation.
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Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
Not every nonprofit organization can do everything well. That’s one reason why every nonprofit must work relentlessly to achieve and retain its strategic focus—a commitment to doing what it does best.
How Field Catalysts Galvanize Social Change
Surmounting daunting social challenges such as ending malaria or achieving marriage equality can require the help of an intermediary organization—a field catalyst—that amplifies the efforts of others. Open access to this article is made possible by The Bridgespan Group.
The Urgency to Fund Early-stage Social Entrepreneurs
Why early-stage entrepreneurs are essential building blocks for profound social change—and why they need greater investment.
Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?
A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change.
Talent: The Key to Developing the Social Sector in China
Many organizations in China are aging without reaching their potential for impact because they lack needed talent, but there are ways to overcome this challenge.
NGO Leadership Development in India: From Pioneer-Founders to Homegrown Leaders
As the trailblazers who built India’s nonprofit sector begin to step aside, a new study shows that NGOs face a significant gap in next-generation leadership. There are barriers to bridging this gap and building blocks to surmount them, but progress depends on founders and funders viewing leadership development as mission critical.