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The Insecurity Complex

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Any long-term solution to retirement insecurity must include a commitment to living wages that allow for some savings.

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2013 IS Conference: Share Your Ideas Today!

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Share your ideas for the 2013 IS National Conference today! Your insights and contributions will help ensure the conference will address key issues important to the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

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GameChangers

Accountability , Annual Conference , Breakthrough , Collaboration , Collective Impact , Failure , Impact , leadership , Nonprofit , Risk , White House Council on Community Solutions 3 Comment s »

Guest post by Malik S. Nevels, J.D., Executive Director, Illinois African American Coalition for Prevention

Are you changing the game? How do you balance organizational legacy with the need to grow, adapt, and transform? What organizations are effectively tackling issues big enough to matter yet small enough to change? When is it ok to fail? 

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A Double-Edged Sword: Post-Recession Leadership Turnover

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By Térèse Coudreaut, Human Resources Director, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The session, facilitated by James Weinberg, founder and CEO of Commongood Careers, covered the topic of turnover and what it means, both positive and negative, for our organizations. Panelists included Don Aguilar, vice president of human resources at Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Rafael Lopez, associate director for talent and leadership development at the Annie E. Casey Foundation and James Siegal, executive vice president and COO for KaBOOM!

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PPAI & NGen: Leadership, Policy, and the Future of Our Sector

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Cara Underwood, Senior Program and Public Policy Manager, Southern California Grantmakers

This afternoon, Independent Sector brought together attendees from the Public Policy Action Institute (PPAI) and NGen Pre-Conference for the Luncheon Keynote and Conversation with a Sector Leader to hear from two of the field's greatest champions about leadership, policy, and the future of our sector.

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