Highlighting Leadership at Nonprofit Groups

Leadership is commanding attention in the nation’s weekly news magazines, and several nonprofit chief executives were cited for their management abilities.

U.S. News & World Report included several charity executives in its list of America’s 25 best leaders (October 31). Among the winners:

• Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, founders of Partners in Health, a nonprofit group that fights disease in poor countries.
• Geoffrey Canada, chief executive of Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization that serves 8,600 children from low-income families.
• Bill Shore, founder of Share Our Strength, an antihunger group.

Articles about each leader are available at http://www.usnews.com.

In Newsweek, the focus was on female leaders. The magazine’s October 24 issue looked at the style of several nonprofit executives, including Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, who says, “Women moving up in their careers often feel they have to be more aggressive, be more like men. They ought to find their own voice.”

Maria Otero, president of Acción International, a group that makes small loans to help people in developing countries build businesses, tells the magazine: “Being a woman makes me a better manager. In some ways, being able to develop a management-leadership style that is based on forming a team is very much in line with the way I interact with my sisters or other women. We’re all in it together.”

The articles are available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com.