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The Responsibility of Leadership
The Responsibility of Leadership
Winter 2004
Welcome
Welcome to Winter 2004
Letters
Letters to the Editor (Win 04)
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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
Building Leadership or a Self-Reinforcing Bureaucracy

In a spirit of humility, we put the following collectively developed ideas forward not as a self righteous rant, but as a call for a reconsideration of leadership’s purpose and function within the “social” sector. If these ideas are headed in the right direction, we all have a lot of changing to do.

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Accountability: Evaluation
Are We There Yet? Changing Course Along the Way

What follows is a remarkable account of leadership transition in its full complexity—including shifts that occurred at a national movement level, at the organizational level, and at a personal level.

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Networks, Collaborations & Movements
Movement is Motion

Changing generations is a difficult process.  How do we best manage it?

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Satire
Ten Tried and True Tips to Becoming a Leader: Uplifting Advice for the Young People of America

Anthrop's advice to the next generation.

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LeadershipOrganizational Culture & Development
Considerations on Leadership in an Immigrant Population: Lessons from the Haitian Community

Leadership in the immigrant community—and especially in the Haitian community—is very complex, as it requires the understanding and the reconciliation of two worlds.

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Advocacy
Citizen Engagement: The Nonprofit Challenge

It will take all of the nonprofit community’s resources and determination to meet the challenges we face. The sector surely has the capacity to do so, but does it have the will and courage to do so?

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Governance
Sherpa? Shepherd? Conductor? Circus Master? Board Chair
What do those who are considered to be excellent board chairs judge to be important in that role, and how does this compare to literature on the subject?...

Governance
Call to Leadership: Profiles of Board Chairs
Who are the board chairs interviewed in the previous article? What makes them unusually effective? This set of profiles shows the diversity and richness of this layer of leadership in the sector....
 
Governance
Exploring the Puzzle of Board Design: What's Your Type?

Many boards are just a set of accumulated practices that don’t necessarily follow a governance design. This article is an exciting approach to what the primary design principles in nonprofit governance are, and how they should be considered in the development of boards.

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Organizational Culture & Development
The Spiral of Sustainable Excellence

One of our readers' favorite authors presents a new take on nonprofit lifecycles based on his research of high-performing organizations.

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Fundraising: Trends
A Decade of Online Fundraising

Ten years after online fundraising began, Stein and Kenyon present readers with an update on the growing role of the Internet. Has it met expectations? Which organizations benefit and which can best use it?

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Case Study
Online Fundraising and Engagement: The Vital Link

From an 8-by-10 room with a laptop and a desk to a leader in Internet organizing, one of MoveOn’s founders discusses how engagement and fundraising are vitally linked.

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Case Study
The Tsunami Tsunami: The Charitable and Political Response to the Disaster

Cohen looks at the integration of the charitable and political response to the tsunami in Southeast Asia.

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