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David La Piana - Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations

David La Piana has been recognized as a leading expert on nonprofit management and governance. In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, La Piana presents a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliance to joint ventures to full-scale mergers, all to which falls under a term he has coined as strategic restructuring. Nonprofit management leaders are finding strategic restructuring as a way to respond to the current economic conditions.

Four Ways to Innovate Your Nonprofit Career

By Rosetta Thurman 1

Five ways nonprofit professionals can innovate and think differently about their careers.

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John Mackey - Conscious Business and Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship requires conscious leadership, says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in this University podcast. Delivering a talk sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Mackey issues a clarion call for nothing less than "conscious capitalism," arguing that business can indeed serve more than the almighty dollar. He discusses his own company's challenges in the social enterprise arena.

Five Ways to Emerge as a Nonprofit Leader

By Rosetta Thurman

Passing the torch of nonprofit directing from one generation to the next must involve five behaviors that encourage emergence leadership.

Correlations Between Being a Great Teacher and Being a Great Nonprofit

By John Brothers 3

Teach for America compiled a list of the central characteristics of a good teacher, many of which are similar to those found in great nonprofits.

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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards

By Aysa Gray 40

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

By Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg 40

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

By Heather McLeod Grant & Leslie R. Crutchfield 16

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

By Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento 24

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

By Peter Senge, Hal Hamilton & John Kania 34

The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.

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