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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.” The Myers-Briggs Foundation offers this perspective on the process. “The digital age is all about leadership.

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Signs Of A Successful Nonprofit Board: Making A Difference With 120 Hours

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Influence: Building relationships and partnerships A successful nonprofit board understands the power of influence. Board members should dedicate 18 hours to convince foundations, government officials, legislators, business leaders, and community influencers that their organization is a wise investment.

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Gen Z Is Ready to Join Your Junior Board of Directors

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This is the newest generation to gain influence in the world. Although not ready or able yet to make a monetary donation, many 20-somethings are eager to support your cause through advocacy, social influence, and volunteering. The low-hanging fruit segment for this are individuals who served on their university’s student government.

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Report calls for shift to more equitable evaluation practices

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A report from the Equitable Evaluation Initiative (EEI) and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations highlights how foundations are working to integrate an equity lens into their evaluation practices. According to the report, the entry point for engagement with more equitable evaluation practices will vary from foundation to foundation.

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Money talks: Why tuning into the Giving Pledge matters 

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However, their philanthropic gestures are executed with millions, if not billions, of dollars that move global markets and spur governments to action. Case in point: Through the Gates Foundation , Bill and Melinda Gates have such outsized effect on philanthropy in the U.S. In that sense, they’re just like the rest of us.

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Six things you may not know about the U.S. social sector

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While nonprofits are perhaps most associated with the social sector, organizations within it can overlap with the spheres of business and government. Political organizations such as political action committees (PACs) straddle the line between public and private, accepting private donations in order to influence elections.

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Putting Our Humanity Back at the Center of Engagement

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A connected throughline of our shared humanity With that in mind, as I reflect on the influences, changes, and overall trends we have seen in employee engagement, philanthropy, and CSR in 2023, and those that are to come in 2024, I cannot help but be struck by the notion that it is not about specific trends or actions.