Muriel Moore, a Spanish teacher at Glenwood Springs High School in Glenwood Springs, Colo., has started the Western US Teacher Appreciation Charitable Trust to support children of educators financially without raising taxes. The nonprofit provides scholarships to students whose parents are teachers, with the first recipient receiving more than $7,000.

The Wallace Theater's revival was powered by a decades-long community effort that began with the vision of the Keeling family and expanded into a nonprofit project supported by local donations, volunteers, and grants. Executive director Alycyn Keeling emphasized that the restoration was a true celebration of community, with residents and local organizations collaborating to bring the 1928 theater back to life.

To retain Generation Z employees, companies must offer flexible and financially accessible learning opportunities, writes Michelle Westfort, the chief product officer at InStride. "This generation expects their investment in education and skill development to translate into tangible opportunities, with employers who recognize these efforts as integral components of a defined career progression," Westfort notes.

When you're overwhelmed as a leader, it can impact your company's efficiency, decision speed and employee morale as teams wrestle with unclear priorities, which can result in lost opportunities and turnover, writes Allison Dunn with Deliberate Directions. To prevent this, Dunn outlines how to achieve strategic, operational and personal clarity by creating systems for setting priorities and hierarchies about how decisions get made and by whom, taking most of the weight off of you.

Nonprofit board meetings often become bogged down in operational details, diminishing board members' engagement in governance and oversight, writes Mike Burns, a partner at BWB Solutions. Burns offers strategies to keep meetings focused and engaging, such as clarifying roles, planning agendas collaboratively, setting engagement norms, sharing mission moments and using task forces instead of standing committees.

Wheeling Health Right, a nonprofit in Wheeling, W.Va., has named Anne Ricci as executive director, succeeding Kathie Brown, who served for 34 years. Ricci brings experience from the nonprofit, health care and arts sectors, and has expressed her commitment to expanding care and strengthening community relationships.