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News and Insights
May 22, 2018

Now Available: Engine of Impact Audiobook (Free!)

Amazon recently issued a spoken-word version of Engine of Impact as part of its Audible service. You can buy the audiobook on its own or access it for free through an Audible subscription. Audible offers a 30-day free trial. Sign up today—and access the Engine of Impact audiobook!

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Learn From the Best—and Go to the Core

In a pair of linked pieces for their Forbes column on leadership, Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker focus on the need for social sector professionals to develop carefully honed core principles. “Whatever your role in the nonprofit world—executive, staffer, board member, or philanthropist—identifying your core principles is an essential foundational element of choosing your own focus and role,” they write.

The first piece (“How Two Figures Shaped Our Core Principles on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership”) explores the deep and enduring influence that two leaders—Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, and Roy Prosterman, founder of Landesa—had on Meehan and Jonker, respectively. 
 
In the second piece (“Our Core Principles: High Impact at Scale, Yes, but Serve Others Always”), Meehan and Jonker set forth the ideas and ideals that underlie all of their work—starting with the overarching principle of “high impact at scale” but also acknowledging the importance of serving others in everyday ways. 
 
Check out this new resource: a brief overview of the seven elements of strategic leadership. As Meehan and Jonker explain in their latest column, those elements are prerequisites for achieving high impact at scale, and the authors encourage nonprofit leaders to share the overview with their colleagues to stimulate discussion about their nonprofit organization and others in the sector.
 
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Moment of Impact?

“For nonprofit organizations, the current moment should be the best of times—a time when they can tap into new sources of funding and when conditions are ripe to leverage that funding to maximum effect.” So begins an article by Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker that the Bridgespan Group recently published at its website. The article, titled “Most Nonprofits Aren’t Ready for the Coming Impact Era,” draws on findings from the Stanford Survey of Leadership and Management in the Nonprofit Sector to show that most organizations in the sector are falling short of their potential.

To ensure that the current era will indeed be “the best of times” for nonprofits, these organizations must improve their performance in areas that range from board governance to strategy. Meehan and Jonker conclude with optimism: “by working intentionally and proactively to master the essentials of strategic leadership, organizations can seize the tremendous opportunity presented by the Impact Era,” they write.

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