By Dionne Galloway and Monisha Kapila As we shared last week, ProInspire’s Bold Goal is that social sector organizations have high performing leaders at all levels in order to fulfill their missions. The first strategy we have defined to achieve our bold goal is to develop leaders with the mindset…
By Monisha Kapila In March 2015, ProInspire started down the path of defining our bold goal for impact, and creating a strategy for the organization’s future. As a young and lean organization, I thought our strategy process would take about a year. Along the way, we gained tremendous learnings thr…
By Paul Collier, 2014 Bay Area ProInspire Fellow Earlier this month I attended my fourth Net Impact Conference, one of the country’s largest annual gatherings of professionals dedicated to making a social and environmental impact through business. This year’s conference was hosted in Philadelphi…
Monisha Kapila, ProInspire Founder and CEO, co-authored a blog post about the need for diverse leaders at all levels in the nonprofit sector in order to better achieve organizational missions and reflect the communities in which we work and serve. Written in conjunction with other leaders of Equity…
We believe in the power of people. Any nonprofit organization — including ours — is made stronger by the constellation of individuals with unique perspectives, interests, and dreams. You know our title, and you know what we do to help achieve ProInspire’s mission. But who are we as in…
Kresge will support ProInspire’s leadership development training for grantee organizations in seven cities ProInspire is excited to announce the launch of The ProInspire Leadership Institute, Powered by The Kresge Foundation. The Institute will deliver ProInspire’s proven leadership developmen…
We believe in the power of people. Any nonprofit organization — including ours — is made stronger by the constellation of individuals with unique perspectives, interests, and dreams. You know our title, and you know what we do to help achieve ProInspire’s mission. But who are we as ind…
By Martha Searby, ProInspire’s Communications Director Last week I attended the Philanthropy NEXT conference in Washington, DC. This inaugural event, organized by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, brought together professionals from both sides of the giving equation for meaningful dialogue about …
By Elaine Choi, 2015 ProInspire Fellow at College Track For most of my life, alone is how I’ve been. Although I have siblings, I was the youngest of three, and the age gap between my brothers and me was wide enough that we never shared the same life experiences at any given time. I pursued solo …
As we mentioned in our announcement this week about Independent Sector’s new Focus Area on diversity, equity, and inclusion and ProInspire’s role as curation partner and issue expert for it, Monisha Kapila (ProInspire CEO) co-authored an introductory blog post to help frame the Focus Ar…