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Emotional Labor and Othering: Understanding Terms to Create Equity and Inclusion in the Nonprofit Workplace
A Background to “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” You’ve read “How to Build a Compassionate Workplace” and have questions about one branch of othering: emotional labor. This article is intended to provide background and resources to support you. …
Five Examples of Gen Z Innovators Tackling Social Isolation
In the spring of Aditi Merchant’s freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin, the entire country began shutting down. Aditi should have been filling her time with mind-expanding classes, all-night study sessions, fun parties, and summer plans. …
Are Your Nonprofit Organization’s Stories Dishonoring the Families You Serve?
We have a problem in this country with the idea of a class system. Please indulge me the time to paint a picture of the backdrop against which many of us work but don’t often acknowledge. I will then use that backdrop to illustrate the challenge of dis …
Seizing Social Capital to Empower Nonprofit Leaders
Through my forty-plus years of practice as a volunteer with, consultant to, and teacher of leaders of hundreds of diverse nonprofit enterprises, I have come to believe that there is at least one universal truth about 1.56 million registered nonprofits …
Seeking Sustainability: How Can Nonprofits Survive the Pandemic?
Here in Los Angeles, leaders across the region are working to identify ways to safely reopen the economy. Some sectors are eager to get back to business, while others are worried about whether or not it is safe to return. But for the most part, the non …
In the Shadow of the Pandemic, Nonprofits Form Partnerships to Expand the Meaning of Healthcare
Nonprofits in healthcare are expanding the scope of their services through partnerships with housing authorities. Are you using strategic partnerships to address a multifaceted problem in your community? Let us know. During the Covid-19 pandemic, nonpr …
Make the Move! Tips for Migrating Your In-Person Event Online
It has been an unprecedented few weeks. The impact of Covid-19 has taken many of us by surprise—with a serious ripple effect for nonprofits with plans for in-person conferences and trainings. As you contemplate the scary scenario of transitioning quick …
Nonprofit Tales From the US-Mexico Border
For many of us concerned with social justice, the situation that has been unfolding at the US-Mexico border is highly concerning. In this “tales from the trenches” account, we focus less on our usual practical tips and tools to hear some a-has and take …
How to Cure Founder’s Syndrome
Founders—the people who create nonprofits—are remarkable. They miss sleep to build websites, skip lunch to meet with potential donors or partners, and do whatever it takes to turn their dreams of a better world into reality, creating an organization in …
Remote Team Environments: A How-To Primer
According to the 2018 NTEN Digital Adoption Report, 41% of nonprofit staff telecommute, work from home, or do much of their work outside the office. And this trend is only growing. Remote teams may seem really exciting due to lower overhead, the promis …
