Philanthropy & Funding
Trustees Capital
An excerpt from Effective Fundraising: The Trustee's Role and Beyond on the role of nonprofit trustees in development.
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Tag: Boards
Nonprofits & NGOs
Best of 2021 Nonprofit Management Institute
Participants at this year’s NMI heard from nonprofit and business executives, noted academics, and prominent public-sector leaders about building a healthier future by creating personal, organizational, and societal well-being.
Advocacy
How the Divestment Movement Wins
Activists use moral analogies with rogue industries and states to stigmatize fossil fuels.
Leadership
Decolonize Your Board
This article offers nine strategies to liberate board culture and provides a tool that boards may use to reflect on their own behavior and strengthen their culture.
Business
How to Make Stakeholder Capitalism Work
Stakeholders must have more power over the companies that affect them. Giving them a share in ownership and governance is the best way to ensure this.
Leadership
Building Better Boards
Looking at a board through the lens of colonization can increase its effectiveness and improve board culture.
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Business
Changing Boards for a Changing World
An excerpt from How Boards Work on how boards can reform to meet the moment.
Leadership
Leading Boards in a Virtual World
Thirteen ideas to keep boards effective and cohesive in a remote environment.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization's purpose, show respect for the ecosystem in which they operate, commit to equity, and recognize that power must be authorized by the people they're aiming to help.
Business
Boycotts and Corporate Boards
Social movement boycotts increase board turnover, especially when board members are sympathetic to the cause at issue.