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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 222: U.S. Public Policy: Look Ahead for 2022

sgEngage

Public policy impacts decisions made around charitable giving. These policies can influence how people give, when they give, and how much they give. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Brian Flahaven to learn how policies have impacted giving over the past few years and what’s ahead for the coming year.

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Narrative Change Strategy

Forum One

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Questions to ask when developing a narrative change strategy. Putting narrative change into action for impact.

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Grow Or Stagnate?: Nurturing A Growth Mindset

The NonProfit Times

Fixed mindset leads to focus on limitations, reluctance to face challenges, resistance to change, and an aversion to anything new and risky. Change seldom happens spontaneously or because we wish it. As a leader, you both set an example through your own actions and by influencing organizational culture and policies.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

sgEngage

Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change. This includes considering factors such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other intersecting identities that can influence access to resources and opportunities.

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Who, Where, What, and Why? Data Management in K–12 Schools

sgEngage

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.” – Warren Berger When starting our data program, we began with these questions: Why are we collecting data? What data does our school need?

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Putting Our Humanity Back at the Center of Engagement

sgEngage

An intangible feeling of change that arises each time we enter a new year. For others , the feelings are a bit more fleeting, providing only temporary change before slipping away in the face of familiar patterns and habits. For many , this led to changes in terminology and language used to describe the work.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

2 Say you’re a nonprofit working in the area of houselessness and want to put together an advisory committee of people with legislative and policy development experience to advance systemic changes in your community. In fact, your committee’s structure should be flexible enough to adapt to your nonprofit’s changing needs and dynamics.

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