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Considering Co-Leadership
ARTICLE | Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future
ARTICLE | Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation
ARTICLE | A Reality Check for Nonprofit Co-Leadership
Co-leadership is having a moment, and for good reason. As Common Future Co-CEOs Jess Yupanqui Feingold, Jennifer Swayne Njuguna, and Sandhya Nakhasi argue in the first article, learning to share leadership is a way to break the self-reinforcing loop of hero narratives. In “Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation,” Hayley Roffey, co-CEO of the Global Fund for Children, explores how co-leadership can boost innovation at all organizational levels, by freeing leaders to lean into their strengths and increasing diversity and inclusion. Finally, Ashley Lanfer and Kelly Mangiardi of Wellspring Consulting explore the risks of co-leadership that nonprofits should understand before they take the leap.
An Easy Win For Democracy?
ARTICLE | Too Many Elections
Low-turnout, off-cycle elections impose jaw-dropping costs on Americans. But political scientist Zoltan Hajnal and strategy consultant Avi Green argue that, unlike many other problems facing American politics, it’s one that social innovators can solve. How? Election consolidation—holding federal, state, and local elections on the same day—is easy to understand, popular with voters of both parties, and can be made by many states and hundreds of municipalities without needing an act of Congress.
Multigenerational Living
ARTICLE | Policies for Housing With Heart
For most of human history, people lived in multigenerational family clusters. Such living reinforces a relational worldview, according to which individuals see themselves as parts of larger, interdependent wholes: family, clan, village, tribe, and so on. But most Western societies have broken the family apart. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. What is the driver of this historically unusual way of living? As Jonathan F. P. Rose argues, it’s a function of housing and policy as much as culture.
Recruiting Gen Z
ARTICLE | Transforming Workplace Culture to Attract Gen Z to the Public Sector
Millions of state and local government employees play a crucial role in supporting and uplifting their local communities. Yet government agencies across the United States are facing the rapid retirement of older workers, and polls show that many recent graduates have low opinions of government work. To fix this, agencies must make their workplace culture more outcomes-driven and show Gen Zers that the public sector rewards creativity, risk-taking, and innovation.
Shifting Power
ARTICLE | Localization Through Leadership
One of the latest trends in global development is leadership localization, a term that describes a (usually Western) funder’s effort to shift power to (usually non-Western) local communities. However, the discourse around this shift has tended to focus more on the why than the how. Because localization risks appearing—and sometimes ends up being—disingenuous, organizations must understand how to do it in ways that won’t undermine their work or generate distrust in the communities with whom they engage.
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