Community Leadership & Challenging Times

Community Leadership & Challenging Times

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CST

ZOOM Webinar: FREE Session - RSVP Required

About this session: Dr. Roseanne Mirabella will kick off our spring offerings with a discussion of major issues impacting nonprofit organizations during these challenging times. Her webinar session will touch on four main areas, discussing the threats and opportunities in each: 

• An overview of the steps needed to balance the management issues in nonprofit organizations with the wicked problems facing our communities.

• The important role nonprofit organizations play as first responders during emergencies and disasters, outlining steps nonprofits organizations can take in preparation for the inevitable crises they will face.

• The ways in which social media is threatening the civic space that is so important to our work. 

• Finally, there are many external threats facing the sector as policy makers enact "anti-woke" laws and policies around DEI, social justice, and other progressive policies of third sector organizations. In particular, she will discuss H.R. 9495 that passed the house in December, which could potentially threaten the tax-exempt status of law-abiding nonprofit organizations.

There will be time for audience Q+A and an opportunity to hear brief two-minute introductions about the rest of the workshops in our Spring series. Register today!  

Who Should Participate:   Executive Directors, Finance Officers, Management Staff, Board Members, and Staff

About the Presenter:  Roseanne M. Mirabella, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice & Public Affairs at Kean University.

Roseanne M. Mirabella, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice & Public Affairs at Kean University.  For thirty years prior to this, she was a Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Affairs and Executive Director of the Center for Community Research and Engagement at Seton Hall University. She conducts research on philanthropy and nonprofit management education, international education for managers of NGOs, and critical perspectives on nonprofit organization management. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Critical Perspectives on Nonprofit Organizing and Voluntary Action, a comprehensive survey of critical scholarship within the field. Mirabella also co-edited “Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion and Social Change,” which provides students of nonprofit organizations with perspectives not typically included in the curriculum. She is Past-President of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and the North Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration. For more than thirty years, together with her students, Dr. Mirabella has assisted many local community-based organizations in planning, programming, and social change initiatives. She received the 2019 Academic of the Year Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration and this November will receive the lifetime award for Distinguished Achievement and Leadership in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award from ARNOVA.