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Fall 2009 Issue

If the Buddha Was a Fundraiser: In these challenging economic times, it is easy to become discouraged about fundraising. Yet it's precisely at times like these that we need access to our best thinking and the ability to create perspectives that empower us. If the Buddha was a fundraiser, how might he help us learn to do that?

Letter from Inca: Helping Leaders Manage Complexity and Change: As nonprofits face increasingly complex and changing environments, they are calling upon their leaders to be and provide something more to address these new situations. So how do we stretch our leadership style in order to be effective, adaptive, and authentic - as we continue to do all that we've already been doing?

Summer 2009 Issue

What's Power Got To Do With It? Owning Your Power As a Manager: Fundamentally our work - the work of social justice - is about power. Many of us entered social justice work because we were outraged by the harm caused by misuse or abuse of power. Since we have seen power used so badly, many of us, in our roles as managers, are uncomfortable with power and want to disassociate ourselves with it. As a result, we managers often fail to acknowledge or take responsibility for how much power we have - in our own organizations, over our own staff. So how can we, as managers, acknowledge and responsibly exercise our formal power and avoid abusing it?

Letter from Inca: Partnering With Clients to Serve Them in Tough Times: Many of you have contacted MAG seeking guidance as you wrestle with tough choices that call into question aspects of your organization's traditional ways of working. You're looking for immediate affordable solutions that don't compromise future effectiveness and sustainability. And so we, here at MAG, are...

Spring 2009 Issue

Tools You Can Use: Finding Opportunity in Crisis: An executive director of a leading national advocacy organization captured the conflicted mood enveloping the nonprofit community:"I feel this wonderful optimism about new political openings mixed with a great sense of anxiety about the economy." How can we responsibly deal with the repercussions of the economic crisis while at the same time take maximum advantage of the new political opportunities to advance our mission and goals?

Letter from Inca: Weighed Down by Stressful Times? If and how you take care of yourself has a big impact on your ability to lead your organization through new territory and change. So, for the good of the organization, how's a busy weighed-down executive director going to practice self-care?