NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

Increasing your fundraising capacity also allows you to host larger events, advertise your cause, and partake in other growth-related activities that incur costs. Continuously improve skills by reading educational nonprofit blogs and participating in fundraising workshops, webinars, and conferences. Then, practice what you learn.

Nonprofit Management 236

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 236

Philanthropy 2173

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Second, the OpenAI events show that the nonprofit governance model is not "strong" enough to outweigh the interests of investors. Had this happened in education, healthcare, or other domains where philanthropy is active we'd see the industry press and professional associations paying close attention (and claiming all kinds of credit).

Nonprofit governance 87

Nonprofit governance Governance Civil Society Non-Profits 87

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Ensure that the organization is operating consistent with its governing documents , including with respect to provisions governing elections, terms of service, board meetings, board actions by written consent, delegated authority to committees and officers, reports, amendments to bylaws, and voting membership rights (if applicable).

Public and Social Policy 113

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Race and Ethnicity 113

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 25, 2024

DPI rose to prominence globally during the COVID-19 pandemic enabling digital government-to-person payments through cash transfers. The Aadhaar project morphed into India Stack during the mid-2010s to include components such as payments and financial data governance, in addition to identity.

Public and Social Policy 139

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 139

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. If governments can work with a publicly owned bank that makes modest profits and reinvests those profits in the communities that own it, they can participate in a restorative local economy. It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management 126

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 126

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 6, 2024

This transformational 10-week program strengthens the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Taylor, Vice President, Gamma Zeta Lambda Educational Foundation of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Participation and motivation 264

Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 264

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The money can be used for key wealth-building activities like education, homeownership, or starting a business. For example, in Saint Paul, MN, the historically Black Rondo neighborhood was virtually destroyed when the federal government built Interstate 94 through the community. This series will explore that central question.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Public Policy Poverty Governance 124

Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

Nonprofit governance and management 105

Nonprofit governance and management Foundations Governance Nonprofits 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of the Johnson Amendment—the provision in the code that prohibits 501c3 organizations from engaging in partisan electoral and political activities. This requires a clear understanding of the legal boundaries that define what 501c3 organizations can and cannot do in political activity.

Public and Social Policy 97

Public and Social Policy Law Taxation Activism 97

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 13, 2024

Fundraisers starting with page 35 – titled Moving Past the Barriers – are presented with five solutions for activating donors. By providing a mental path to limiting options, fundraisers can spur activity. ** Burdensome and tedious tasks. These barriers include: ** Too many choices. For some, donating is as simple as writing a check.

Activism 59

Activism Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 59

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Most recipients with significant barriers to employment—including disability, lack of education, or lack of available jobs—don’t find employment due to work requirements. They also don’t help people gain the necessary education and skills to achieve stable employment.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Poverty Social Policy Children 127

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. The worker co-op sector is exceptionally good at connecting within itself; we see cooperators actively seeking out peer connections across regions, industries, and affinity groups regularly.

Manufacturing 116

Manufacturing Education Education Governance 116

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 13, 2012

Websites with a.gov domain are reserved for government institutions, while sites with.edu domains are reserved for higher education institutions. Contact Relevant.gov & edu Websites: Links from.gov and.edu websites are more valuable links to your web property than a regular.com or.org because the search engines value them as such.

Nonprofit governance and management 195

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits Values Recruitment 195

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 19, 2024

Although this concentration has had profound local economic and cultural implications, various government agencies have justified it by saying that it is necessary for security reasons or that it brings in national economic support in exchange for hosting the military facilities. percent of the country’s total land area.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Poverty Construction Law 140

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The solidarity strike demonstrates a united front in Los Angeles committed to respect, dignity, and living wages to benefit not only education workers, but the students they serve. Public school teachers are not just educators. They are responsible for educating the generation that will be most affected by climate change.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Education Education Environmental 141

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.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Recruitment 110

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

1 Philanthropy’s Conflicting Commitments Over the course of the last two and a half years, Marguerite Casey Foundation has supported efforts across the country to reimagine safety, increase access to public dollars, and seed in everyday people’s imagination the belief that our government dollars should be used to improve their lives.

Public and Social Policy 136

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Philanthropy 136

The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

If your CEO doesn’t come with years of successful fundraising, it is the CPO’s (chief philanthropy officer) responsibility to respectively educate the CEO about their critical role with key donors…and that means speaking truth to power. You should be bold. Your responsibility, and creditability, goes beyond just fundraising.

Philanthropy 115

Philanthropy Fundraising Fundraising Healthcare 115

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

As asset owners, all nonprofits—along with institutional investors and foundations—need to address social and environmental issues through balance sheet activism — doing so is critical to meeting both business and mission objectives. Together, these smaller nonprofits have an estimated $22.1

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 122

Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2023

Nonprofit organizations rely on the commitment and active engagement of their board members to make a significant impact in their communities. Board members should allocate ten hours per year for regular board meetings, where they actively participate in discussions, provide input, and make informed decisions.

Nonprofit governance and management 103

Nonprofit governance and management Activism Governance Nonprofits 103

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

Crucially, this “boundary spanning” activity (to use the term coined by organizational theorist Michael Tushman in 1977) is not just for innovators who have the resources and inclination to approach things differently. To make progress on our most pressing public problems actually requires reaching out across social boundaries.

Collaborations 131

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 131

Candid

OCTOBER 7, 2024

This article will explain the 501(c)(4) designation for nonprofits and describe the rules and context around 501(c)(4)s and political activity. What are 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations? They can engage in a wide variety of activities—providing social services, promoting the arts, supporting scientific studies, etc.

Activism 98

Activism Governance Charitable Organizations Nonprofits 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This is doubly true for AI, because these new tools can be developed for many different types of activities, with the potential to spread rapidly in every sector of the economy and in every aspect of our lives. The consequences of any technology depend on who gets to make pivotal decisions about how the technology develops.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Civil Society Production 142

Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2024

What is advocacy, and why it matters You have a big, bold vision to better the world with your nonprofit—whether you’re developing programs and influencing policies around education, social justice, human rights, or animal rights. Advocacy covers a range of activities for nonprofits and includes much more than just legislative lobbying.

Public and Social Policy 99

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Participation and motivation Education 99

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But in other ways, it was old news for a country in which 92 percent of total employment is in the informal economy—a category that long predates gig work, and which is defined as any employment where workers lack access to government social and labor protections through their jobs. Some of this story is positive, but much of it is not.

Public and Social Policy 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Law Technology 145

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 16, 2024

By Kamanda Kamiri , Rogers Patrick Kamugisha & Boris Bulayev Education systems tend to be labyrinthine bureaucracies, comprising countless stakeholders and moving parts. Our youth employment and skill-building organization, Educate! , This is perhaps especially true in Africa.

Curriculum and Teaching 79

Curriculum and Teaching Entrepreneurship Education Education 79

Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Establish initial governing documents and policies. . Develop a strategic plan , which should include staffing, activities, budget, and a fundraising plan. . Retain or consult with an accountant for annual audit and government filings, including the form 990. Not providing board education or setting expectations.

Nonprofit Organizations 128

Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit governance and management Insurance 128

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Simply stated, government’s inability to create profound change requires both funders and the organizations they support to adopt a different way of thinking about problems and their solutions. In Education. We see the same thing in organizations focused on educational attainment.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Health Education Education 127

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45

Race and Ethnicity 105

Race and Ethnicity Environmental Education Education 105

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The War on Drugs Is Personal The War on Drugs has been a half-century-long, concerted, militarized campaign led by the US government to enforce prohibitions on the importation, manufacture, use, sale, and distribution of substances deemed to be illegal, advancing a punitive rather than a public health approach to drug use.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Law Psychology Poverty 131

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 7, 2025

Other programs include open mics for youth, community calisthenics, and an Anti-Gentrification Task Force focused on tenant rights education and mutual aid. Despite his deep-seated distrust of city government, Weathers was excited about the potential benefit to the youth. Nor do they get recognized for it.

Public and Nonprofit Management 125

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Retail Food 125

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 19, 2023

Conway of Caltech, titled The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market , examines the role of corporate propaganda. Musgrave offers a more satisfying answer, writing, “I understand neoliberalism as a governing rationality that directs state action in favor of the market” (177).

Public and Social Policy 109

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Governance 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Keep in mind that policy makers are not just government officials. In describing this approach to a colleague, it clicked for him when he thought of a flywheel, where the activation of one strategy advances the whole. The evidence was clear: Expanding access to high-quality education is critical to decarceration.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 121

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

When board members blur the lines between governance and management, they inadvertently sabotage the organization. The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities.

Nonprofit governance and management 83

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Leadership Nonprofits 83

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action. Even though government now mandates electronic filing, some nonprofits provide required information in alternative formats that make electronic analysis more difficult.

Public and Social Policy 125

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 125

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As he puts it, “There are some diminished assumptions about places like Detroit that have majority-African American populations and particularly populations that are predominately low- and moderate-income and not college educated. A third key challenge is implementing systems and processes, such as permanent governance policies.

Food 134

Food Nonprofit governance and management Finance Governance 134

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 13, 2024

The nonprofit sector has the opportunity to make a difference, and it’s not too late to start trying, said experts in a recent webinar hosted by the National Council of Nonprofits in partnership with Nonprofit VOTE , which works to educate and encourage nonprofits to include voter engagement in their work.

Education 117

Education Education Nonprofits Activism 117