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by Richard Wegman on November 20, 2022
Categories: Current Issue| Leadership and Management
Topic Tags: Sustainability
Article In Brief: The Problem: Nonprofit leaders’ desire to improve the future, and feeling of present inadequacy, can lead to burnout, anxiety, and depression. We have to realize we can’t do it alone. Why it Happens: Nonprofits, and funders alike, work separately in silos, tackling challenges, and vying for the same access to resources, independently. New thinking is needed to create stronger, more durable models to bring about systemic change. The Solution: The author offers regenerative thinking as the ideal approach to reorient our perspective from what’s in it for me to asking how can we all benefit? Seven examples …
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