Reading List: Leading Through Change
A list of articles on fundraising, AI, mental health in the workplace, the changing landscape of philanthropy, and other topics on the minds of nonprofit leaders.
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Cultures of Healing
Low trust and dissatisfaction plague the health-care industry. To improve the patient experience and boost health-equity outcomes, health-care organizations and providers should adopt a more holistic approach to health-care delivery.
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Exiting the Fast Lane
Social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer argues for slowness as the most effective method for creating lasting social change.
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Health and Climate Solutions From Cities Around the World
From the front lines of climate change and health inequities, city leaders are collaborating on solutions and learning from one another how best to rise and meet these challenges.
Strong Boards: An Antidote to Founder Syndrome
A strong leader’s assets can sometimes become organizational liabilities. But why? The problem might be within the structure of the organization itself.
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.