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Self to Systems: Leading for Race Equity Impact
This Leadership Model is a tool to support individuals and organizations with core commitments, corresponding practices, and reflection questions that can create and sustain racially equitable experiences and outcomes within the social sector.
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ProInspire Board, ProInspire Impact
By: Nancy Withbroe, Vice Chair of ProInspire Board of Directors As we look back on this traumatic year during which our nation has suffered such pain and harm, ProInspire is exploring what lessons we’ve learned. This is a year during which we’ve also seen the opportunities for healing and justic…
ProInspire Impact, ProInspire Staff
By: Monisha Kapila, Founder & CEO 2020 helped us go deeper in our research around Leadership Practices for Race Equity Impact that we have been working on over the past few years. As I reflect back on the year, here are some of my learnings around these core aspects of leadership – inner w…
News, ProInspire Alumni, ProInspire Board, ProInspire Impact, ProInspire Staff
We are excited to welcome ProInspire’s new Board Members and Officers and the new ProInspire Network Leadership Council members and Co-Chairs. …
News, ProInspire Impact
February 20, 2019By: Monisha Kapila When I reflect on the past 10 years, it becomes clear that our greatest asset is the ProInspire community of over 3,000 people and almost 500 organizations working to advance social impact across the sector. These partnerships have given us a deeper understanding …
About Us, ProInspire Impact
We are excited to share a sneak peek of our new branding. After a year of gathering input from alumni, advisors, funders, partners, and program participants, as well as many discussions among our team, ProInspire has a new brand! We plan to roll out our new branding over the next few months, and wan…
About Us, Leading for Equity, ProInspire Impact, Strategic Planning
By Monisha Kapila Over the past two years, ProInspire has been actively building our knowledge and capacity to more clearly center equity¹ in our work. We deeply appreciate partners who have shared their journey with us, so our team will share learnings, questions, and struggles as we pursue our ow…
About Us, ProInspire Impact, ProInspire Staff
By: Talisha Rice, ProInspire Fellow, 2015, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), MBA Candidate 2020 Nearly three years ago I left my corporate job with one of the world’s leading financial services institutions, JP Morgan, to transition into the social sector to work with an education, health, …
About Us, ProInspire Impact, Resources: Initiatives and Programs
By: Monisha Kapila As we start the new year, the ProInspire team is excited for the existing and new programs that we will be providing towards our Bold Goal that social sector organizations have high performing leaders at all levels in order to fulfill their missions. Look for more information on t…
About Us, ProInspire Fellowship, ProInspire Impact
By: Monisha Kapila Our Board and team are excited about the 2018 strategies we have outlined and their ability to drive the work towards our Bold Goal. As part of these plans, and as I mentioned in a recent blog post on them, we have made the difficult decision to sunset the ProInspire Fellowship Pr…
About Us, ProInspire Impact, Strategic Planning
By Monisha Kapila I am happy to share an update on ProInspire’s strategic plan as we prepare for 20 18-2019. This update includes exciting plans to launch new programs, and our decision to sunset the ProInspire Fellowship in 2018. As a quick review, in Fall 2017 our Board approved ProInspire’s B…
Articles & Research, Leadership & Management Practices, ProInspire Impact, ProInspire Staff
Drucker Institute, a social enterprise whose mission is strengthening organizations to strengthen society, recently interviewed ProInspire Founder and CEO Monisha Kapila for an article on Managing the Boss. The article, featured in the Institute’s bimonthly Monday* magazine, builds on Peter Dr…
About Us, Impact Accelerator, Program Participants & Cohorts, ProInspire Impact
By Leland Holcomb, 2017 Impact Accelerator participant Burgeoning professionals wishing to enter, or expand their reach within, the social sector face a landscape that is exciting and full of opportunity, but also one that is competitive, ambiguous, and uncertain. Effectively unlocking this opportun…
Program Participants & Cohorts, ProInspire Alumni, ProInspire Fellowship, ProInspire Impact
Last week marked the final training for 2016 ProInspire Fellows in Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco Bay Area. It was a time of both celebration and reflection, as the Fellows looked back on what they had learned over the past year, and set goals for their future as leaders in the nonprofit …
Managing for Success, ProInspire Alumni, ProInspire Impact
Congratulations to Managing for Success Alum Daria Hall on her selection to the American Express Leadership Academy 2.0 Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Fellowship Cohort! Daria will join 14 other executive and management level nonprofit professionals and social entrepreneurs for a weeklong program lat…
About Us, Program Participants & Cohorts, ProInspire Fellowship, ProInspire Impact,
Reflections on the ProInspire retreat, election results, and the responsibility of the social sector
By Sonovia Wint, 2016 ProInspire Fellow Last year’s election result was marked by an intensity of emotions from many groups of people. It brought tensions to the surface and highlighted existing divisions within our country. What I most noticed was the change in the way we responded to one anoth…