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What leadership practices help nonprofits achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

As an Israel Defense Forces veteran, I relate to Jim Collins’ West Point talk about the ethics of service, commitment to a cause bigger than yourself, the understanding that you could die while serving and meaningful insight that the pursuit for greatness is a journey that never ends.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

It traverses the slum’s territory, listlessly gliding above the shanties, perhaps to transmit images to the Military Police Operations Centre, a violent state apparatus that mercilessly represses the slum’s inhabitants. 1 The worker remains unaware of what is taking place above them, just as they remain unaware of the purpose of their work.

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The Big Chill: Why Nonprofits Should Care about Affirmative Action

Blue Avocado

Will these paltry philanthropic investments in racial equity and justice be further diminished as a result of the Court’s decision? As a result, nonprofits may be discouraged from exercising their current legal rights to the full extent out of fear of violating the law. The racial wealth gap is just one powerful example.

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