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| dei training for nonprofit boards: Implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Management in Organizational Change Initiatives El-Amin, Abeni, 2022-06-17 The social and political changes of this era have created a climate change and fundamental shift in how businesses view the impact of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in the workplace. It is essential to understand how leaders make significant, sustainable changes utilizing communication abilities, envisioning, conflict management skills, and innovative DEIB initiatives. However, leaders must be careful not to rely on anecdotal evidence as it does not always reflect DEIB realities. Implementing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Management in Organizational Change Initiatives analyzes how leaders implement DEIB organizational change initiatives. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective of how issues and challenges pertaining to DEIB management affect organization performance. Covering topics such as inclusive organizational identity, socio-intercultural entrepreneurship, and supplier diversity programs, this book is an indispensable resource for business leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, academic administration, students and educators of higher education, government officials, researchers, and academicians. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Dancing on Live Embers Tina Lopes, Barb Thomas, 2006 Winner of the 2007 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for advancing human rights |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Nonprofit Dilemma DC Armijo, 2024-09-09 The nonprofit leadership book that will help you become a better catalyst for change. What’s preventing YOU from changing the world for the better? Based on the simple idea that nonprofit leaders frequently encounter a choice between advancing their organization's impact or its financial health, The Nonprofit Dilemma explores why nonprofit management is so challenging. Nearly every decision comes with the same underlying question—which aim to prioritize? The Nonprofit Dilemma will help you gain the clarity and strategic intent you need to become an exceptional leader. Whether you are an executive, board member, or future nonprofit leader, use this book to become the impactful leader you want to be. Inside you’ll discover: -Insights and strategies to help nonprofit leaders thrive -Ideas to help you develop and implement a better strategy -How to embrace values that differentiate your nonprofit -Ways to build, empower, and motivate purpose-driven teams -Proven business development tactics to grow your nonprofit -Ideas to improve how you measure and communicate impact -Strategies to develop more effective partnerships Whether you need help with grant-writing, promoting organizational focus, or handling a governance issue with tact, this book has all the advice you need to become a more effective leader and catalyst for change. **Each year, a portion of the net sales proceeds from this book are donated to notable nonprofits per the program described on the author’s blog.** Editorial Reviews: “Clearly written and compassionate guidance for nonprofit leaders.” — Kirkus Reviews Regardless of readers' experience…Armijo's guidance is timeless, offering an inside view into the constant tension between mission and money... — Booklife by Publishers Weekly “[Armijo's] writing style is both informative and engaging…Excellent book!” — Readers' Favorite |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Handbook on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Public Administration Meghna Sabharwal, Sean A. McCandless, Shilpa Viswanath, 2024-08-06 Providing a comprehensive overview of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within individual, organizational, and societal contexts, this Handbook explores the multidimensional nature of DEI in public administration. It addresses the considerable influence that governing institutions have on societal norms, and acts as an important resource to inspire inclusion. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit Beth Kanter, Aliza Sherman, 2016-09-26 Steer your organization away from burnout while boosting all-around performance The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact. Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy. Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points Achieve better results with attention to well-being Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Empower Your Nonprofit Amy Neumann, 2024-11-13 Your complete guide to AI in the nonprofit sector Empower Your Nonprofit: Simple Ways to Co-Create with AI for Profound Impact is a comprehensive, accessible, and highly practical guide to harnessing the power of emerging AI technologies in the nonprofit sector. This book delivers strategic research, tools, case studies, and advice to help nonprofits advance their missions through AI, with interviews, outlooks, testimonials, and quotes from nonprofit leaders and influencers in the AI industry delivering key insight to all readers regardless of technical expertise. Readers will learn how to practically resolve the top 10 most common nonprofit pain points through the utilization of AI, backed by current case studies of AI implementation for core nonprofit functions like fundraising, grants, marketing, and initiative event optimization. In this book, readers will find information on: The nonprofit sector's critical missions, success factors, challenges, and needs of today AI as a way to automate inefficient internal processes, freeing talent to work on more inspired projects Tools, tips, and tricks to get started with AI as soon as today Empower Your Nonprofit: Simple Ways to Co-Create with AI for Profound Impact earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all nonprofit leaders and involved donors seeking a comprehensive step-by-step guidebook on how this exciting new technology can be leveraged for greater nonprofit success. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Nonprofit Management Michael J. Worth, 2023-12-18 Michael J. Worth’s best-seller, Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice, provides a comprehensive, insightful overview of key topics nonprofit leaders encounter daily. Worth covers both the governance and management of nonprofit organizations—the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership of nonprofits, management, fundraising, earned income strategies, financial management, lobbying and advocacy, managing international and global organizations, and social entrepreneurship—helping readers understand what they are and how they work. The text balances research, theory, and practitioner literature with current cases and the most recent data available, making it appropriate for undergraduates, graduate students, and nonprofit professionals. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Joan Garry's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership Joan Garry, 2017-03-06 Nonprofit leadership is messy Nonprofits leaders are optimistic by nature. They believe with time, energy, smarts, strategy and sheer will, they can change the world. But as staff or board leader, you know nonprofits present unique challenges. Too many cooks, not enough money, an abundance of passion. It’s enough to make you feel overwhelmed and alone. The people you help need you to be successful. But there are so many obstacles: a micromanaging board that doesn’t understand its true role; insufficient fundraising and donors who make unreasonable demands; unclear and inconsistent messaging and marketing; a leader who’s a star in her sector but a difficult boss… And yet, many nonprofits do thrive. Joan Garry’s Guide to Nonprofit Leadership will show you how to do just that. Funny, honest, intensely actionable, and based on her decades of experience, this is the book Joan Garry wishes she had when she led GLAAD out of a financial crisis in 1997. Joan will teach you how to: Build a powerhouse board Create an impressive and sustainable fundraising program Become seen as a ‘workplace of choice’ Be a compelling public face of your nonprofit This book will renew your passion for your mission and organization, and help you make a bigger difference in the world. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Diversity Training That Generates Real Change James O. Rodgers, Laura L. Kangas, 2022-07-26 This complete guide to effective, transformative diversity training provides an answer to the superficial, check-the-box DEI efforts that are undermining the entire field. DEI work is getting a bad reputation. But that's because it's not being done right, say veteran diversity consultants James O. Rodgers and Laura Kangas. Too many organizations are treating diversity training as a quick-hit, low-cost, check-the-box activity. Effective diversity training involves behavioral change based on adult learning theory. It is rigorous, deeply personal, experience based, and, if done well, life changing. Rodgers and Kangas offer a complete guide, from design to implementation to results. They show how to • determine what specific, tangible outcomes an organization wants before it starts • link diversity training to overall organizational strategy • help all participants forge an individual, emotional connection to the training • identify what skills a facilitator needs—the right facilitator makes all the difference • create memorable learning experiences, not simply educational programs The authors' goal is nothing less than to spark a worldwide revolution of informed practitioners, employees, and business leaders who will demand diversity training be given the same time, resources, and attention as any other critical enterprise initiative. Reading group discussion guide available in book. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance Kevin P. Kearns, Wenjiun Wang, 2023-12-11 The Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance is the ultimate reference guide for those interested in the rapidly growing nonprofit sector. Each insightful entry includes a definition of the concept, practical applications in nonprofit organizations, and discussion of current issues and future directions. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management David O. Renz, William A. Brown, Fredrik O. Andersson, 2024-03-14 An expansive discussion of the most current scholarship, theory, and best-practices in the field of nonprofit leadership and management In the newly revised fifth edition of The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, veteran nonprofit leader and researcher Dr. David Renz, along with co-authors Fredrik Andresson and William Brown, deliver a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the research, theory, and practices influencing contemporary nonprofit organizations. The book contains a particular focus on the unique challenges confronting all modern nonprofit leaders, including the concept of accountability and the pressure to demonstrate concrete outcomes and results during a time of extreme economic challenge. The editor includes original contributions from 28 of the sector’s leading voices, on everything from the institutional context in which nonprofits operate to the effective recruitment, selection, retention, and management of staff and volunteers. You’ll also discover: Substantial updates and revisions to rapidly evolving subjects, including diversity, equity, and inclusion at nonprofits, social entrepreneurship, and financial leadership Expansive exploration of the transformed political-legal climate and context in which nonprofits operate In-depth consideration of the management of relationships with internal and external stakeholders and constituents Perfect for leaders, educators, researchers, managers, and students of contemporary nonprofit leadership and management, The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management is an invaluable, one-stop resource for sitting board members and engaged volunteers at forward-looking nonprofit organizations. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: DEI and Intersectional Social Identities at Work Donnalyn Pompper, Tugce Ertem-Eray, 2024-06-13 This book equips readers—both students and communication practitioners—with the theoretical understanding and practical skills they need to support nonprofit and for-profit organizations to create and assess their diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and social identity intersectionality goals. Through applied examples of the insider activist role that the communication function plays, the book helps future and current professional communicators navigate organizations toward authentic relationship-building with internal and external audiences. It teaches that embracing DEI includes acknowledging social identity intersectionalities—recognizing that people possess multiple social identity dimensions of age, culture, ethnicity/race, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, social class, and more. In order to illuminate the theory discussed in the book, each chapter includes thought-provoking situation-opportunity sidebars, discussion questions for drilling deeper into the issues at hand, and case studies with applied lessons about DEI issues. This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduates and graduate courses in organizational communication, strategic communication, marketing communication, human resources, and public relations, as well as for communication practitioners working in these subdisciplines. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Scaling Altruism Donald Summers, 2024-02-27 A hands-on toolkit for ambitious nonprofit leaders seeking to grow their organization's impact In Scaling Altruism: A Proven Pathway for Accelerating Nonprofit Growth and Impact, veteran social impact advisor and entrepreneur Donald Summers delivers a comprehensive, step-by-step blueprint to transforming small or mid-size nonprofit into an impactful and extraordinary agent of change. The book contains templates, tools, exercises, and crystal-clear implementation guides that readers can apply immediately to begin scaling their social impact organization. Offering actionable insights that have enabled many of today's most exciting social change efforts, the author provides practical guidance on how to turn your nonprofit into a social-problem-solving machine. You'll also find: Specific strategies to improve cash flow and funding to your nonprofit, including revenue tools and staff integration An Investment and Partnership Scorecard, detailing the health of your fundraising efforts Leadership best practices for dealing with disruptive people at a nonprofit An invaluable resource for managers and directors at small- to medium-sized nonprofits, Scaling Altruism is also perfect for funders and graduate students aspiring to work in the nonprofit space. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Dare to Lead Brené Brown, 2018-10-11 In her #1 NYT bestsellers, Brené Brown taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Leadership is not about titles, status and power over people. Leaders are people who hold themselves accountable for recognising the potential in people and ideas, and developing that potential. This is a book for everyone who is ready to choose courage over comfort, make a difference and lead. When we dare to lead, we don't pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don't see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it and work to align authority and accountability. We don't avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into the vulnerability that’s necessary to do good work. But daring leadership in a culture that's defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty requires building courage skills, which are uniquely human. The irony is that we're choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the same time we're scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines can't do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection and courage to start. Brené Brown spent the past two decades researching the emotions that give meaning to our lives. Over the past seven years, she found that leaders in organisations ranging from small entrepreneurial start-ups and family-owned businesses to non-profits, civic organisations and Fortune 50 companies, are asking the same questions: How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders? And, how do you embed the value of courage in your culture? Dare to Lead answers these questions and gives us actionable strategies and real examples from her new research-based, courage-building programme. Brené writes, ‘One of the most important findings of my career is that courage can be taught, developed and measured. Courage is a collection of four skill sets supported by twenty-eight behaviours. All it requires is a commitment to doing bold work, having tough conversations and showing up with our whole hearts. Easy? No. Choosing courage over comfort is not easy. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and work. It's why we're here.’ |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Achieving Excellence in Fundraising Genevieve G. Shaker, Eugene R. Tempel, Sarah K. Nathan, Bill Stanczykiewicz, 2022-03-22 Strategies and concepts for mission-based fundraising From the world’s first school of philanthropy, Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the leading fundraising textbook based on research and steeped in practical expertise. It has long been the go-to reference for fundraising principles, concepts, and techniques. Topics include donor motivations and behaviors, engaging donors at all levels, inclusive and ethical fundraising, and more, with contributions from noted experts in the field. You’ll gain insight into the practice of fundraising and the fundraising cycle, reinforced by discussion questions, application exercises, and research-based recommendations. This 5th edition of Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is reimagined to meet the needs of today’s fundraisers, their nonprofit employers, and the causes they serve, while maintaining key concepts that stand the test of time. Compelling and timely topics new to this edition include donor-advised funds, crowdfunding, raising money in challenging times, fundraising for social advocacy, and more. The needs of fundraising educators are also a central consideration in the book’s organization and contents. Discover why Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the leading textbook and reference in the field! Learn the key principles and techniques of philanthropic fundraising, from the experts at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Consider today’s most pressing issues in fundraising—using research and data to inform practice, engaging a diversity of donors, expressing gratitude effectively, and much more Utilize research-based fundraising strategies to enhance the success of your organization’s efforts and to achieve your professional goals Chapters are written by faculty, alumni, and associates of the prestigious Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. The newest edition of this trusted work is an essential source of information for anyone in the fundraising space. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Performance through Diversity and Inclusion Ruth Sessler Bernstein, Paul F. Salipante, Judith Y. Weisinger, 2021-09-29 This book provides practical guidance for managers, leaders, diversity officers, educators, and students to achieve the benefits of diversity by focusing on creating meaningful, inclusive interactions. Implementing inclusive interaction practices, along with accountability practices, enhances performance outcomes for the organization and improves equity for members of historically underrepresented and marginalized groups. The book highlights the need to challenge existing approaches that have overemphasized representational—that is, numerical—diversity. For many decades, the focus has been on this important first step of increasing the numbers of underrepresented groups. However, moving beyond representation toward a truly inclusive organizational culture that produces real performance and equity has been elusive. This book moves the focus from achieving numerical diversity to achieving frequent, high-quality, equitable, and productive interactions that enable individuals to leverage their distinctive talents and provides the steps to do so. The benefits of this approach occur at the individual, workgroup, and organizational levels. Real-life examples of good inclusive practices are provided from across the for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental sectors and in various organizational contexts. The book is ideal not only for those charged with diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in organizations but also for organizational leaders and managers who can create and/or support the implementing of inclusive organizational practices and also for postgraduate and undergraduate students studying human resource management, organizational behavior, management, or diversity, equity, and inclusion. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Management David Wasieleski, James Weber, 2024-08-13 The Business and Society (BAS) 360 book series is an annual publication targeting cutting-edge developments in the broad business and society field, such as stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and citizenship, business ethics, sustainability, corporate governance and others. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Next IQ Arin N. Reeves, 2019-09-23 This groundbreaking new book will introduce you to new ways of thinking about leadership and inclusion in the workplace through an integrated exploration of research studies, stories, learning experiences, and tested solutions. In it, you'll discover how to make individual and collective intelligence more intelligent by changing the way you, and your organization, thinks. The world-changing events of the last few years -- from the use of social media in the protests in Egypt and the hair-trigger volatility in the global financial markets, to the natural disasters in Japan-- have illustrated how the world has become inextricably interconnected. This interconnectedness has changed the ways in which we respond and react, but it must also change the ways in which we think so that we can lead proactively and not reactively. The Next IQ: The Next Level of Intelligence for 21st Century Leaders illustrates this change in the way we think -- from the transformation of leadership from being rooted in individual expertise to being formed from multiple and diverse perspectives. It's the start of a conversation on how we need to think, learn, and lead in this new millennium. If you want to take your organization to the next level of intelligence that you'll need in order to think, learn, and compete in the increasingly seamless global marketplace of the 21st century, then this book is an essential addition to your library. With this accessible and innovative book you can make your business, firm, or organization more intelligent for the way the world works today. Arin brilliantly challenges us to view intelligence and its potential for a competitive edge in a new way. Her fresh perspective, THE NEXT IQ, is simple and compelling, and essential for learning and leading in a global environment. Ruth Ann Gillis - Executive Vice President & Chief Administrative Officer, Exelon Corporation ...a must read for any CEO or CLO of a multi-national corporation...Dr. Reeves artfully balances intuition, empirical data and pragmatism to make a compelling case for the need of today's leaders to embrace a radically different mindset and approach to leading... Thomas L. Sager - Senior Vice President and General Counsel DuPont Legal The Next IQ explains why today's leaders must change the way they think about intelligence, leadership and inclusion in order to succeed in the 21st century. Michael C. Connelly - Senior Vice President, Strategy and Planning Xcel Energy ...essential reading for any leader coping with the information revolution and the rapid pace of 21st century change. Reeves's observations about our interactions...are perceptive, enlightening, entertaining, and undeniable. Susan Lichtenstein - Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal Officer Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. I applaud this provocative, insightful, and perceptive addition to the literature on leadership...an impressive range of thoughtful perspectives and specific strategies from which all concerned leaders, instructors, and students of leadership will benefit. Diane C. Yu - Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President, New York University |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Nonprofit Kit For Dummies® Stan Hutton, Frances N. Phillips, 2009-12-04 Tips and techniques to help your nonprofit thrive in any economy Due to the recent downturn in the economy, a significant number of nonprofit organizations have experienced a major decrease in funding and contributions. Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, 3rd Edition caters to these organizations and shows you how your nonprofit can thrive and survive even in the current economic climate. With 25% new and revised material, Nonprofit Kit For Dummies, 3rd Edition offers new tips and information on everything you need to navigate the process of setting up and effectively running a nonprofit organization. Covers raising money, applying for grants, and developing the perfect mission statement Details on how state laws vary; conducting program evaluations; and conforming to accounting standards CD includes forms, worksheets, templates, and more Whether you're thinking about starting your own nonprofit or are already working in the sector, Nonprofit Kit For Dummies, 3rd Edition is a valuable source for getting the latest information and practical advice on running a prosperous nonprofit organization. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Red Queen among Organizations William P. Barnett, 2016-08-02 There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work when organizations compete, shaping how firms and industries evolve over time. Barnett examines the effects--and unforeseen perils--of competing and winning. He takes a fascinating, in-depth look at two of the most competitive industries--computer manufacturing and commercial banking--and derives some startling conclusions. Organizations that survive competition become stronger competitors--but only in the market contexts in which they succeed. Barnett shows how managers may think their experience will help them thrive in new markets and conditions, when in fact the opposite is likely to be the case. He finds that an organization's competitiveness at any given moment hinges on the organization's historical experience. Through Red Queen competition, weaker competitors fail, or they learn and adapt. This in turn heightens the intensity of competition and further strengthens survivors in an ever-evolving dynamic. Written by a leading organizational theorist, The Red Queen among Organizations challenges the prevailing wisdom about competition, revealing it to be a force that can make--and break--even the most successful organization. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Imperfect Board Member Jim Brown, 2010-12-03 Praise for The Imperfect Board Member Finally! A book about boards that isn't boring! --Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Everyone wins with good governance--countries, corporations, and community groups. In a compelling style like no one before him, Jim Brown helps leaders understand the keys for boardroom excellence. The Imperfect Board Member ought to be required reading for people on every type of board. The great thing is that it won't need to be required--it's such a fun book, every leader will want to read it. --Jim Balsillie, chairman and co-CEO, Research in Motion; chair, Centre for International Governance Innovation I know no board members, myself included, who won't learn valuable lessons from Jim Brown's book The Imperfect Board Member. Don't miss it! --Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One-Minute Manager and The Secret Thanks to Sarbanes-Oxley, boards have become active. The Imperfect Board Member clarifies sharply the lines of what boards need to do and what management needs to do. The time has come for the two groups to work together and yet keep independent. --Ram Charan, coauthor, Execution, and author, Boards That Deliver The Imperfect Board Member by Jim Brown is a highly perceptive, eminently readable, engagingly human book on how boards and directors can improve their performance. In a breezy conversational style that uses dialogue invitingly and often, the author explores with sensitivity and a light touch not only the standard ingredients but also the more subtle nuances of excellence in both corporate and not-for-profit governance. --William A. Dimma, author, Tougher Boards for Tougher Times; chairman, Home Capital Group Inc. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Inclusive Leadership Bernardo M. Ferdman, Jeanine Prime, Ronald E. Riggio, 2020-09-21 In a time of increasing divisiveness in politics and society there is a desperate need for leaders to bring people together and leverage the power of diversity and inclusion. Inclusive Leadership: Transforming Diverse Lives, Workplaces, and Societies provides leaders with guidance and hands-on strategies for fostering inclusion and explains how and why it matters. Inclusive Leadership explores cutting-edge theory, research, practice, and experience on the pivotal role of leadership in promoting inclusion in diverse teams, organizations, and societies. Chapters are authored by leading scholars and practitioners in the fields of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. The book is solidly grounded in research on inclusive leadership development, diversity management, team effectiveness, organization development, and intergroup relations. Alongside the exhaustive scholarship are practical suggestions for making teams, groups, organizations, and the larger society more inclusive and, ultimately, more productive. Leaders and managers at all levels, HR professionals, and members of diverse teams will find Inclusive Leadership invaluable in becoming more effective at cultivating inclusive climates and realizing its many benefits—including innovation, enhanced team and organizational performance, and social justice. For more, visit: https://inclusiveleader.com |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Simple Development Systems Pamela Grow, 2019-12-07 How do smart nonprofit solo-fundraisers find their focus, lose the overwhelm, create a strategy, and -- most importantly -- fund the mission? Simple Development Systems to the rescue! Lose the fits-and-starts fundraising model so prevalent in our sector and get on a plan. Discover how to create the donor-focused fundraising systems that move your organization forward -- in any economy! Covering: *Nonprofit Storytelling *Foundation Grants *Fundraising Planning *Multichannel Fundraising Appeals *Donor Newsletters *Nonprofit Annual Reports *Selecting Your CRM, and more Written by an in-the-trenches fundraiser with nearly two decades of experience, Pamela Grow knows what it's like to face limited resources and overwhelming need. She guides you surely and safely through Bright Shiny Object Syndrome on to a roadmap of what really works. You'll learn how to systematize your fundraising and grow your individual donor base exponentially. Loaded with tools, templates, and even recorded webinars, Simple Development Systems will get you off the fundraising hamster wheel once and for all - GROWing your sustainable funding. Guaranteed. The essential guide for fundraising executive directors, new development directors, and board members who want to know the real secrets to fundraising success. About the Author Pamela Grow is the founder of Basics & More Fundraising online training, offering the time and budget-strapped nonprofit professional classes in the systems that build their fundraising. Pamela was named one of the 50 Most Influential Fundraisers by UK's Civil Society magazine, and in 2016 she was named one of the Top 25 Fundraising Experts by the Michael Chatman Giving Show. She's been featured by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Foundation Center and Small Shop Savior, a weekly column of NonprofitPRO Magazine. Her weekly newsletter, The Grow Report, reaches over 40,000 nonprofit professionals. Pamela can help you take your donors from first-time gift...to lifetime! |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Measure What Matters John Doerr, 2018-04-24 #1 New York Times Bestseller Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive. In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to pull the plug on losing propositions, to fail fast. And they needed timely, relevant data to track their progress—to measure what mattered. Doerr taught them about a proven approach to operating excellence: Objectives and Key Results. He had first discovered OKRs in the 1970s as an engineer at Intel, where the legendary Andy Grove (the greatest manager of his or any era) drove the best-run company Doerr had ever seen. Later, as a venture capitalist, Doerr shared Grove's brainchild with more than fifty companies. Wherever the process was faithfully practiced, it worked. In this goal-setting system, objectives define what we seek to achieve; key results are how those top-priority goals will be attained with specific, measurable actions within a set time frame. Everyone's goals, from entry level to CEO, are transparent to the entire organization. The benefits are profound. OKRs surface an organization's most important work. They focus effort and foster coordination. They keep employees on track. They link objectives across silos to unify and strengthen the entire company. Along the way, OKRs enhance workplace satisfaction and boost retention. In Measure What Matters, Doerr shares a broad range of first-person, behind-the-scenes case studies, with narrators including Bono and Bill Gates, to demonstrate the focus, agility, and explosive growth that OKRs have spurred at so many great organizations. This book will help a new generation of leaders capture the same magic. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Stan Lee Bob Batchelor, 2017-09-15 The Amazing Spider-Man. The Incredible Hulk. The Invincible Iron Man. Black Panther. These are just a few of the iconic superheroes to emerge from the mind of Stan Lee. From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee’s life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades. From millions of comic books fans of the 1960s through billions of moviegoers around the globe, Stan Lee has touched more people than almost any person in the history of popular culture. In Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel, Bob Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at this iconic visionary, a man who created (with talented artists) many of history’s most legendary characters. In this energetic and entertaining biography, Batchelor explores how Lee capitalized on natural talent and hard work to become the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager. After toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations of readers. Marvel superheroes became a central part of pop culture, from collecting comics to innovative merchandising, from superhero action figures to the ever-present Spider-Man lunchbox. Batchelor examines many of Lee’s most beloved works, including the 1960s comics that transformed Marvel from a second-rate company to a legendary publisher. This book reveals the risks Lee took to bring the characters to life and Lee’s tireless efforts to make comic books and superheroes part of mainstream culture for more than fifty years. Stan Lee: The Man behind Marvel not only reveals why Lee developed into such a central figure in American entertainment history, but brings to life the cultural significance of comic books and how the superhero genre reflects ideas central to the American experience. Candid, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, this is a biography of a man who dreamed of one day writing the Great American Novel, but ended up doing so much more—changing American culture by creating new worlds and heroes that have entertained generations of readers. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The External Control of Organizations Jeffrey Pfeffer, Gerald R. Salancik, 2003 This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: More Courageous Conversations About Race Glenn E. Singleton, 2013 Since the highly acclaimed Courageous Conversations About Race offered educators a frame work and tools for promoting racial equity, many schools have implemented the Courageous Conversations Protocol. Now ... in a book that's rich with anecdote, Singleton celebrates the successes, outlines the difficulties, and provides specific strategies for moving Courageous Conversations from racial equity theory to practice at every level, from the classroom to the school superintendent's office--Back cover. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Building A Pro-Black World Nonprofit Quarterly, 2023-07-25 Learn to create a nonprofit organization and society in which Black people can thrive In Building A Pro-Black World: A Guide To Creating True Equity in The Workplace and In Life, a team of dedicated nonprofit leaders delivers a timely roadmap to building pro-Black nonprofit organizations. Refreshingly moving the conversation beyond stale DEI cliches, editors Cyndi Suarez and the NPQ staff have included works from leading racial justice voices that show you how to create an environment—and society—in which Black people can thrive. You’ll also learn how building such a world will benefit all of society, from the most marginalized to the least. The book explains how to shift from simply critiquing white supremacist culture and calling out anti-Blackness to actively designing for pro-Blackness. It offers you: Incisive and engaging work from leading voices in racial justice, Cyndi Suarez, Dax-Devlon Ross, Liz Derias, Kad Smith, and Isabelle Moses Explorations of topics ranging from restorative leadership strategies for staff wellbeing to Black politics and policymaking Discussions of new language for pro-Black social change, racial equity in healthcare and health communications, and antiracist succession planning A can’t-miss resource for civil society and nonprofit leaders, including directors, executives, grant makers, philanthropic donors, and social movement leaders, Building Pro-Black World will also benefit communicators, organizers, and consultants who work with nonprofit organizations. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: The Diversity Style Guide Rachele Kanigel, 2018-10-15 New diversity style guide helps journalists write with authority and accuracy about a complex, multicultural world A companion to the online resource of the same name, The Diversity Style Guide raises the consciousness of journalists who strive to be accurate. Based on studies, news reports and style guides, as well as interviews with more than 50 journalists and experts, it offers the best, most up-to-date advice on writing about underrepresented and often misrepresented groups. Addressing such thorny questions as whether the words Black and White should be capitalized when referring to race and which pronouns to use for people who don't identify as male or female, the book helps readers navigate the minefield of names, terms, labels and colloquialisms that come with living in a diverse society. The Diversity Style Guide comes in two parts. Part One offers enlightening chapters on Why is Diversity So Important; Implicit Bias; Black Americans; Native People; Hispanics and Latinos; Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Arab Americans and Muslim Americans; Immigrants and Immigration; Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation; People with Disabilities; Gender Equality in the News Media; Mental Illness, Substance Abuse and Suicide; and Diversity and Inclusion in a Changing Industry. Part Two includes Diversity and Inclusion Activities and an A-Z Guide with more than 500 terms. This guide: Helps journalists, journalism students, and other media writers better understand the context behind hot-button words so they can report with confidence and sensitivity Explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that certain words can alienate a source or infuriate a reader Provides writers with an understanding that diversity in journalism is about accuracy and truth, not political correctness. Brings together guidance from more than 20 organizations and style guides into a single handy reference book The Diversity Style Guide is first and foremost a guide for journalists, but it is also an important resource for journalism and writing instructors, as well as other media professionals. In addition, it will appeal to those in other fields looking to make informed choices in their word usage and their personal interactions. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: RED, BROWN, YELLOW, BLACK, WHITE -- WHO'S MORE PRECIOUS IN GOD'S SIGHT? Leroy Barber, 2014-09-09 Drawing upon two decades of mission experience, Leroy Barber exposes the racial divisions within Christian ministries and offers practical and comprehensive solutions for promoting diversity. Red, Brown, Yellow, Black and White highlights the historic patterns that have created racial discrepancies within missions. It joins the essential canon created by touchstone books like Divided by Faith by Michael Emerson and Christian Smith and the ever-popular Race Matters by Cornel West. With a no-blame attitude, powerful personal narratives from a dozen other black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and white Christians, interactive histories of missions, and the writings of MLK and Howard Thurman (the entire Letter From Birmingham Jail and Howard Thurman's motivational speech Sound of the Genuine), Barber addresses this tough issue in a way that will inspire and motivate readers of all races toward change. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Letters to My White Male Friends Dax-Devlon Ross, 2021-06-15 In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn’t enough to end racism. These men want deeper insight not only into how racism has harmed Black people, but, for the first time, into how it has harmed them. They are beginning to see that racism warps us all. Letters to My White Male Friends promises to help men who have said they are committed to change and to develop the capacity to see, feel and sustain that commitment so they can help secure racial justice for us all. Ross helps readers understand what it meant to be America’s first generation raised after the civil rights era. He explains how we were all educated with colorblind narratives and symbols that typically, albeit implicitly, privileged whiteness and denigrated Blackness. He provides the context and color of his own experiences in white schools so that white men can revisit moments in their lives where racism was in the room even when they didn’t see it enter. Ross shows how learning to see the harm that racism did to him, and forgiving himself, gave him the empathy to see the harm it does to white people as well. Ultimately, Ross offers white men direction so that they can take just action in their workplace, community, family, and, most importantly, in themselves, especially in the future when race is no longer in the spotlight. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: A Better World, Inc. Alice Korngold, 2014-01-21 This unique book shows companies and their executives how to profit by developing solutions to the world's most daunting challenges those that governments cannot, and have not yet addressed. Using case studies, A Better World, Inc . delineates best practices for businesses to maximize revenues and reduce costs. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Creating Cultures of Belonging Beth Birmingham, Eeva Sallinen Simard, 2022-10-18 While many faith-based organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership, they still fail to embody a culture that invites and celebrates gender equity. Offering practical steps for leadership teams, board members, and managers, Beth Birmingham and Eeva Simard identify organizational changes that will create a belonging culture. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Race for Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2021-04 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor offers a ... chronicle of the twilight of redlining and the introduction of conventional real estate practices into the Black urban market, uncovering a transition from racist exclusion to predatory inclusion. Widespread access to mortgages across the United States after World War II cemented homeownership as fundamental to conceptions of citizenship and belonging. African Americans had long faced racist obstacles to homeownership, but the social upheaval of the 1960s forced federal government reforms. In the 1970s, new housing policies encouraged African Americans to become homeowners, and these programs generated unprecedented real estate sales in Black urban communities. However, inclusion in the world of urban real estate was fraught with new problems. As new housing policies came into effect, the real estate industry abandoned its aversion to African Americans, especially Black women, precisely because they were more likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure-- |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Engine of Impact William F. Meehan (III), Kim Starkey Jonker, 2018 We are entering a new era--an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect. As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale. William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart from the rest of the nonprofit sector. Together, these components form an engine of impact--a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world. Drawing on decades of teaching, advising, grantmaking, and research, Meehan and Jonker provide an actionable guide that executives, staff, board members, and donors can use to jumpstart their own performance and to achieve extraordinary results for their organization. Along with setting forth best practices using real-world examples, the authors outline common management challenges faced by nonprofits, showing how these challenges differ from those faced by for-profit businesses in important and often-overlooked ways. By offering crucial insights on the fundamentals of nonprofit management, this book will help leaders equip their organizations to fire on all cylinders and unleash the full potential of the nonprofit sector. Visit www.engineofimpact.org for additional information. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Hope of the Crow Katherine Schneider, 2020-08-28 When is the last time you've read an honest, funny book about occupying aging and living with disabilities? Katherine Schneider provides seven years of snap shots of the life of a grass-roots elder activist working, loving, playing, and praying with disabilities included. Half the people over sixty-five will develop a disability. 2020 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so we're in style! Read on to learn about occupying aging with grit and gusto. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Thrive Mark Smutny, 2021 Imagine meetings where everyone is heard and all people matter. Picture organizations that embrace all voices and are committed to justice, equity and opportunity for all. Imagine businesses, nonprofits and the public sector creatively engaging people in thousands of ways to get their best ideas, empower the silenced, and build communities where all are treated with dignity and respect. That's what Thrive seeks to create. Each chapter contains practical insights and accessible stories that transform meetings from dull to dynamic. You will learn how to create effective agendas, keep meetings task-oriented but collegial, and facilitate effectively in polarized or conflicted settings. Thrive includes chapters on privilege and power, multi-lingual meetings, and full inclusion of persons with disabilities. Whether you are a skilled practitioner or new to leadership, Thrive will teach you techniques for facilitating more effective, inclusive and energizing meetings-- |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: DAMA-DMBOK Dama International, 2017 Defining a set of guiding principles for data management and describing how these principles can be applied within data management functional areas; Providing a functional framework for the implementation of enterprise data management practices; including widely adopted practices, methods and techniques, functions, roles, deliverables and metrics; Establishing a common vocabulary for data management concepts and serving as the basis for best practices for data management professionals. DAMA-DMBOK2 provides data management and IT professionals, executives, knowledge workers, educators, and researchers with a framework to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure, based on these principles: Data is an asset with unique properties; The value of data can be and should be expressed in economic terms; Managing data means managing the quality of data; It takes metadata to manage data; It takes planning to manage data; Data management is cross-functional and requires a range of skills and expertise; Data management requires an enterprise perspective; Data management must account for a range of perspectives; Data management is data lifecycle management; Different types of data have different lifecycle requirements; Managing data includes managing risks associated with data; Data management requirements must drive information technology decisions; Effective data management requires leadership commitment. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Creating a Mentoring Culture Lois J. Zachary, 2011-03-10 In order to succeed in today’s competitive environment, corporate and nonprofit institutions must create a workplace climate that encourages employees to continue to learn and grow. From the author of the best-selling The Mentor’s Guide comes the next-step mentoring resource to ensure personnel at all levels of an organization will teach and learn from each other. Written for anyone who wants to embed mentoring within their organization, Creating a Mentoring Culture is filled with step-by-step guidance, practical advice, engaging stories, and includes a wealth of reproducible forms and tools. |
| dei training for nonprofit boards: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Laura L. Lott, 2019-02-01 Diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in all aspects of museums’ structure and programming are top issues in the field today – and in the overall arts/culture sector. Much has been written, from various perspectives, over several decades. Yet, a lack of diversity remains and exclusive practices and inequities persist in all types of museums. A go-to resource for readers interested in learning about diversity and inclusion work in the field – past, present and future. This edited collection of the most important essays, speeches, and reports on these topics seeks to facilitate a much-needed intergenerational dialogue that builds on lessons from the past, broadens thinking about the many different facets of this complex work, and ignites inspiration for continuing to correct inequities across museums of all types, sizes, and locations. In this book compiled and edited by Dr. Johnnetta Betch Cole, who has served as both director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and as the president of both historically Black colleges for women in the United States, Spelman College and Bennett College (a distinction she alone holds) and Laura Lott, president and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, (the first woman to the lead the organization), thought leaders in the museum field present their research, analysis and work to answer some of the most challenge questions facing the museum field. Why do these problems persist? How can a new generation of museum leaders champion change to better represent the communities that museums strive to serve and engage? What can we learn from those who have been observing, experiencing, and writing about these issues? |
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Discover the meaning and significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Explore why DEI matters for your organization and learn how to implement it.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia
In the United States, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are organizational frameworks that seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have …
What is DEI, and why are companies really getting rid of it? - Advocate.com
Feb 3, 2025 · DEI, which stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion, does not seek to elevate minority groups over others, but rather to make sure that marginalized people are not being …
What is DEI, the concept dividing America? - CNN
Jan 22, 2025 · Among seven DEI experts and industry leaders CNN has interviewed, most had a shared vision for what constitutes the concept: Diversity is embracing the differences everyone …
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Feb 5, 2025 · Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) refers to practices and policies intended to support people who come from varying backgrounds and give them the resources they need …
DEI: What It Is & How to Champion It in the Workplace
Oct 3, 2023 · Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives are essential to fostering a positive work culture. Through exposure to diverse perspectives, you can improve employee morale, …
What is DEI: A Beginner's Guide - American Diversity Initiative
Apr 25, 2023 · Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work together to build a fair and respected environment for people of different age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender and sexual …
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Jan 31, 2025 · DEI stands for diversity, equity and inclusion. It refers to programs that ensure people from different backgrounds, cultures, identities, and experiences feel accepted in their …
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May 17, 2024 · DEI stands for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and is an initiative to advance equitable business practices within an organization. The goal of DEI is to involve and amplify a …
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Aug 9, 2024 · DEI encompasses people of different ages, races, ethnicities, abilities, disabilities, genders, religions, cultures and sexual orientations. It also covers people with diverse …
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Discover the meaning and significance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Explore why DEI matters for your organization and learn how to implement it.
