A smoldering conflict between a nonprofit working on homeless support and resident-based homeless enclaves grows hotter. Limited resources from the Seattle city government to address homelessness doesn’t help.
In Oklahoma, a dispute between a public television station and its support foundation intensifies.
Last week, NPQ hosted a conversation with our Senior Editor Cyndi Suarez about how we, as social change agents, can better use our power at various levels of interaction—in movements, in organizations, and in our personal lives.
Organizational conflicts can be healthy when taken to disrupt a bad course; however, sometimes they can take over the whole identity of the organization.
In organizational development, we know that all kinds of things can affect organizational culture, including the field of work, your community, and your donors. These influences have produced a Gilded Age drama worthy of Masterpiece Theater in Newport, Rhode Island.
If you are conflict avoidant you probably should not aspire to lead a nonprofit, because it can be very VERY rough sometimes.
When a new hire gets caught between the longstanding CEO and an overly involved board chair (and must manage a resentful staff, to boot), misery ensues.
