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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. Share your drafts to get constructive feedback.
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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them
The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
To achieve this requires a deeper understanding of the current housing crisis and how nonprofits can, with policy support, implement effective solutions. A Nonprofit Solution Before the surge in private equity interest in the single-family housing market, nonprofits were the quiet pistons in the engine of affordable homeownership.
Affnetz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members? Nonprofit Management Software / By Mike Crum. It might seem like formal document, but it should be more active and useful than it should be formal. I think the blame goes more to Nonprofits than it does board members. or who won’t fundraise.
Anedot
MARCH 24, 2025
Your Impact The Director of Policy and Advocacy plays a critical role in leading and advancing Habitat for Humanity Greater San Franciscos (HGSF) affordable homeownership agenda through policy development, government relations, and community engagement across San Francisco, Marin, and the Peninsula. Noise level will be loud at times.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 18, 2023
Creating a nonprofit business plan is an important step for any organization whether you’re about to launch or are well established in your community. . A nonprofit business plan is slightly different to the commercial sector. Government funding and donor support. Financial projections. Board recruiting.
The Charity CFO
JANUARY 21, 2022
Nonprofits often receive donations or grants designated for a specific purpose–like a donation to a specific program or grant you have to spend within a calendar year. And the issue of restricted funds presents unique bookkeeping and accounting challenges for a nonprofit that a for-profit company doesn’t face.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 8, 2024
But aside from the “normal” nonprofit challenges of relying solely on private philanthropy, the organization had been presented to me as a vehicle in good shape, beyond needing a tune-up. For executives of color, nonprofit leadership is a ‘Hollow Prize.’ Many social justice nonprofits have long existed in states of extreme dysfunction.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. Construction, by contrast, took only two years. This was a surprise.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Whether you are a designer or writer, you need to learn how to manage your time, which is where most freelancers go wrong. These include: Time management. However, self-employment comes with challenges, especially in time management. governments has revealed 2,500 scams centered on the Coronavirus.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 11, 2022
As discussions about ESG become more and more polarized—while progressive politicians push for aggressive regulations, billionaires like Elon Musk call it a “scam” and nonprofits accuse businesses of greenwashing—leaving consumers increasingly confused. However, the problem goes beyond this polarization.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 29, 2023
This speaks directly to the central paradox: While the traditional approach to money management is part of the problem in philanthropy and impact investing, chosen strategies have also played an outsized role in where we are. What if DAFs and foundations relied on fund allocators and managers who are proximate to communities and their issues?
The Charity CFO
APRIL 5, 2022
But that’s not quite true—nonprofits face a decision between 2 different accounting methods for tracking their financial activity: cash accounting vs. accrual accounting. Is your nonprofit required to use accrual accounting? So which accounting method is right for you? And expenses are recorded when they are incurred.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 14, 2023
While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. There is, however, a way for nonprofits to gain greater access to “flexible” capital and for foundations to generate a financial return.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
DECEMBER 20, 2020
How to Train Your Nonprofit Team in 5 Easy & Effective Steps. Nonprofit training is a critical component of running a successful organization. Nonprofits hire for passion. That’s why the key to successful nonprofit growth is to find the perfect balance between passionate team members and mission experts.
NonProfit Hub
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions. entered the Progressive Era.
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
When you started your nonprofit, you likely had a core group of supporters who provided donations and funding on a regular basis. That’s why nonprofits need donor segmentation. Donor segmentation is the process of separating your nonprofit supporters into groups based on common qualities and characteristics they share.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2023
In this series, queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and cultural bearers reflect upon the unique role that culture has played and can play in activating and enacting structural change—and in building a solidarity economy.
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Lets Talk Nonprofit
OCTOBER 5, 2022
However, there are some fundamental responsibilities that are shared by all nonprofit boards. Simone Joyaux, ACFRE is a nonprofit fund development and governance guru. The board is a group of people working together to govern the nonprofit and to ensure the effectiveness of the organization.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
APRIL 30, 2013
For the month of April, I’m hosting the nonprofit blog carnival. I also invited readers’ best single piece of advice for people who work at nonprofits. I also invited readers’ best single piece of advice for people who work at nonprofits. How has it transformed your work? There was an incredible response.
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NonProfit Hub
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Although many government organizations (and banks) observe Monday as a day off from work, February 12 is the day I celebrate. Because most of my thoughts are focused in the nonprofit world, I thought it would be helpful to take a few examples from the life of the 16th President to help your nonprofit. Be a Lifetime Learner.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 16, 2023
What standards of government safety and regulation have been imposed so far, and what do miners hope will change? The proposed rule has now wound its way through the relevant government agencies and recently made it into the Federal Register. There is now a public comment period, after which the government will work to finalize it.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2024
Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. CRH is the only organization in the colonized territory actively collaborating with communities to transform the ever-present blight of abandoned buildings into habitable affordable housing and healthy community spaces. Winning the Lottery?
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The Agitator
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
If donor acquisition were a single activity entire of itself then the yeses would of course have to subsidise the nos. Acquisition is just one part of a complex financial construct that enables charities most efficiently to raise the money they need. The yeses don’t have to subsidise the nos. Why should they? Something else could.
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Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, I would invite you to check us out because we are a provider of donor-management software, that’s what Bloomerang is. And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 17, 2023
Investing in forests, their managing agencies, and communities that care for and depend on them is vital to handling climate change and its attendant health and economic crises. After decades of neglect, federal and state governments are making substantial investments to combat the wildfire crisis.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 7, 2024
Image: “ Hiding From My Shadow” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” T]he federal government has largely left each state on its own to compete against other states for jobs and tax revenues.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 27, 2022
FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. In this article, I talk about collective actions that funders can take to holistically address climate-related impacts on housing justice.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced in the Global North. What are the five biggest problems that we need to make progress on rapidly?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
Governments and funders do not prioritize investing in rural access improvements due to a lack of data to make the case as well as competition from other development projects and a preference for urban investments. B2P has constructed or supported over 450 trail bridges in 21 countries, reaching over 1.5 million people.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2023
Your partner calls the midwife , who reminds you what active labor looks and feels like , and how to know when it is time to come in. They were erased by government-backed campaigns to move birth out of the hands of Black midwives and into the hands of white male obstetricians. Hours later , you are on your way.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” At the height of the pandemic, I was swept up in a titanic battle being waged over the right to a city. 1 That city was New Haven, Connecticut.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 1, 2022
More importantly, tables are not the only place to eat or work and certainly are not always the best places to engage in those activities. The implicit assumption behind these calls is that the board of directors, as a table of overseers, is the best way to govern and manage organization leadership.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Image: “Color My World” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.”
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Back in 2019, I published a study on what I called “cooperative cities” in which I wrote about how local governments in a dozen US cities create enabling environments for developing and sustaining worker cooperatives. The strongest co-ops offered or required trainings and courses in cooperative economics and management.
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The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
When carefully structured and governed, spend-down strategies can provide targeted financial support to causes that need it most. They allow donors to be actively involved and avoid the risks of perpetuating dynastic wealth. This sequence of returns risk underscores the importance of careful planning and risk management.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Combatting this elite capture, he argues, requires a constructive politics that draws on identity politics’ radical foundation: a practice of solidarity that links people of different identities and their struggles, building power to win a better world for all.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 19, 2023
“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 27, 2023
We believe that the world that our planet and everyday people need is often within reach, waiting for us to take hold, take root, take action and to re-shape our everyday lives through radical collaboration, collective activism and a world of care. All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Thanks for listening.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Image: “One Sided” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” We should be regulating corporate capture; instead, our government has enabled it. H ow do we confront corporate capture in our work?
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 16, 2023
About half the city lives in social housing, and they can physically touch the most important policy of the city, which creates extremely high-quality housing—far higher quality than the vast majority of private housing construction in the United States. We need an actor that can come in and actually plan and manage that decline.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Fortunately, community land trust (CLT) homeownership appears more successful than most government programs for first-time, low-income homebuyers—both due to demonstrated increased housing stability for residents and a participatory board model that includes both resident and nonresident community representation.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The expansion of corporate and billionaire power, popularization of ethnonationalist ideologies, and election of right-wing governments, all of which create severe economic volatility for working class and poor people. Our current movement is ideologically underdeveloped and uneven. History can help us understand why. Common Trends.
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