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Spring 2008 Digital Issue
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Click the cover image below to read and download the Spring 2008 digital issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly.
Board Governance
A Conversation with California Congressman Xavier Becerra
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Daring to go where others fear to tread, a California congressman asks tough questions about whether nonprofits provide what taxpayers expect to get for their money.
Board Development
Boards and Leadership Hires: How to Get It Right
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
How a board handles a leadership transition can have powerful and long-lasting effects. This article discusses how the board’s handling of this pivotal moment can result in long-lasting problems—and what your board can do to get it right.
Nonprofit Management
Welcome to Spring 2008
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We have purposefully named this edition of NPQ “Leadership Without A Safety Net” to draw readers away from the emphasis on strategic career development and toward a focus on leading for impact and effectiveness. These two objectives often seem to diverge.
Philanthropy
The Bright Future of Community Building
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Traditional approaches toward community building may do more to push people away than engage them.
Self-Coaching Strategies
A Leader’s Guide to Executive Coaching
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AN NPQ CLASSIC:
Executive coaching provides leaders with tailored guidance on how to manage people and processes to improve organizational results while building the leader’s capacity for delivering those results over the long term. But the approach involves an investment of time and money.
Nonprofit Management
The Nonprofit Ethicist | Spring 2008
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The Nonprofit Ethicist takes on “dirty” donors, hidden reserves, and marriages within the organization.
Nonprofit Management
Powerful Nonprofit Leadership: The D Factor
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FROM THE ARCHIVES:
Should your context drive your leadership style? NPQ’s editors think so. We are happy to reflect that the leadership we called necessary in this article has emerged in the years through various social movements and stakeholder actions.
Nonprofit Management
Gap or Pap: Generational Differences at Work
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Is there is a real difference between what generations want and expect from a workplace?
Nonprofit Management
The Nonprofit ED’s First 100 Days
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What should a new executive do—and not do—in the first 100 days?