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Unicorns Unite: How nonprofits and foundations can build EPIC Partnerships [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Business &Amp; Economics)
  • Author:  Shams-Lau, Jessamyn, Leu, Jane, Le, Vu
  • Author:  Shams-Lau, Jessamyn, Leu, Jane, Le, Vu
  • ISBN-10:  1912157047
  • ISBN-10:  1912157047
  • ISBN-13:  9781912157044
  • ISBN-13:  9781912157044
  • Publisher:  Red Press Ltd
  • Publisher:  Red Press Ltd
  • Pages:  152
  • Pages:  152
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2018
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2018
  • SKU:  1912157047-11-SPLV
  • SKU:  1912157047-11-SPLV
  • Item ID: 101249717
  • List Price: $19.99
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Calling all changemakers!

Open your mind, and buckle up for a bumpy ride through a truth-telling journey about the dysfunctional relationship between foundations and nonprofits. We all know that its broken.?So why haven't we fixed it?

Enter the Unicorns.

Join unicorns Jane Leu, Vu Le, and Jessamyn Shams-Lau for a nitty-gritty, inside look at how foundations and nonprofits relate today, and why we're stuck in the status quo. Next, get ready for a rocket-ship ride to a future filled with EPIC Partnerships grounded in equality, trust, and creativity; partnerships to help us think bigger, bolder, and better about social change. Finally, make it happen! Roll up your sleeves and dive into a series of fun and thought-provoking exercises for you to do and discuss with your team, your partners, and your board.

Unicorns Unite?is a whimsical journey through a challenging conversation that could hold the key to slaying the dragons of injustice and inequity once and for all.

All the movers, shakers and change-makers?of the world continue to tackle the growing list of problems?facing humanity. However, theres a problem. Nonprofits and foundations need each other to fulfil their quest to eradicate?global poverty like a unicorn needs a rainbow, but the way in which they work together is far from perfect.

Enter the Unicorns.

Part relationship-counseling, part manifesto, part workbook. Unicorns Unite provides the game-changing ideas and talking?points for the conversation we really need to have; how can non-profits and foundations work better together?

High school dropout turned MBA,Jessamyn Shams-Laucurrently co-creates and stewards the Peery Foundation's Grantee-Centric approach to philanthropy. Jessamyn is an advocate for interdisciplinary approaches, thoughtful risk taking, and bold ideas developed through apprenticing with a problem. Jessamyn joined the Peery Foundation as its first non-famillă°