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Embracing risk culture in nonprofits: let’s start talking about failure

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jordyn Shafer-Frie Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Start with the following three stages in making the transition: Build awareness of risk culture: Do not assume that staff understand what is meant by “risk culture.” Shafer-Frie is a native of Alaska. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Announcing My Next Book: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not long after, I was leading a workshop in Alaska at a nonprofit conference, and we had another chance to connect. Mindful Leadership. We talked about the need for being more mindful of our technology. Understanding and practicing different ways to work that replenish individual energy. Effective team work habits and communication.

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the founding members of the Fund, Paula Sammons, who is a Program Associate of Family Income and Assets & Leadership at the W.K. We have each had an experience that connected us with something larger than ourselves, and discovered that this awareness can be cultivated from within. Who are the founding members?

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

When the idea of Women's Global Green Action Network formed, it was myself, my colleague and partner Mary Rose Kaczorowski, and a small group of women from different parts of the world who really saw that there was so much leadership coming from women working locally in their communities around environmental challenges, it was tremendous.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

They came from the favelas of Brazil, from Alaska, from the Bronx, immigrant women from the Bronx. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. They came from Sudan, from Saudi Arabia, from all over, some of the most unheard places of the world.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. You can listen to it here , and I have included the transcript below.

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