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Beyond Foundation Funding: Revenue-Generating Strategies for Sustainable Social Change
As social change organizations diversify their funding to be less reliant on foundations, they are finding creative ways to adapt traditional strategies and experiment with new ones.
A new report from RCLA and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation offers specific revenue-generation strategies and examples of nonprofits putting them into practice to offer immediate, actionable guidance for social change organizations, funders and technical assistance providers.
Learn and Let Learn: Supporting Learning Communities for Innovation and Impact
A new guide from RCLA and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations explores the power of learning communities to build connections and knowledge to increase organizations’ community impact. Based on six case studies, the guide explains ways grantmakers can strategically support these efforts as well as key elements for designing learning communities, executing for success and extending the learning.
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The Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service is a cross-sector leadership and career accelerator program for early-career public service professionals. Fellows and alumni participate in a Day of Service with New York Cares.
The Ghanaian Women’s Social Leadership Program equips women in mid-level positions in civil society organizations with the skills, support and networks to lead transformational community change. The year-long program has been developed by RCLA and Fundación Mujeres por África as part of the Ghana Wins! Project.
The IGNITE Fellowship for Women of Color in the Social Sector is a nine-month leadership program that offers mid-career women of color in nonprofits across the US exposure to best practices, processes for building personal and organizational leadership, opportunities to strengthen core management capacities, and a national network.
Participants in the Global Social Change Leadership Institute summer program strengthen their leadership skills, learn about cutting-edge research on social change leadership, and see firsthand what makes organizations at the forefront of advancing social justice successful.
The Wagner Leadership Academy offers an opportunity for representatives of graduate student groups to learn leadership and management skills and to connect and collaborate with other student leaders.
Through the Bloomberg Innovation Delivery Fellowship, outstanding early-career professionals document the progress of Innovation Delivery Teams and gather data to help elevate best practices for cities across the nation, while preparing themselves for leadership careers in the public sector.

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