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Perspectives by Jeanne Bell

Jeanne Bell, CEO of Compasspoint

Jeanne Bell CEO of CompassPoint

Jeanne is the CEO of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a longtime Fund grantee that helps strengthen nonprofit leadership and strategy.

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Resource Leaders

| by Jeanne Bell in Leadership

Fellowship Program Elevates Leadership of Social Justice Fundraisers

Jeanne Bell shares how this fellowship of the Rockwood Leadership Institute is specifically focusing on supporting social justice development leaders.

This piece by Jeanne Bell was originally published in the Nonprofit Quarterly. In any type of nonprofit organization, development staff face a set of dynamics and challenges unique to their role in an organizat…

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nonprofit development, nonprofit development job, nonprofits, nonprofit sector, individual giving

Wanted: Fundraising Bright Spots

| by Jeanne Bell in Leadership

What can we learn from organizations that fundraise well?

How are some social change organizations beating the odds to achieve breakthrough results in individual giving? Help Jeanne Bell and Stephanie Roth, and the entire nonprofit sector, find out.

Two years ago, when CompassPoint and the Haas, Jr. Fund set out to understand the ‘revolving door’ in the nonprofit development director role, I could never have anticipated the depth of emotion we would find: Devel…

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