Affnetz

APRIL 16, 2024

A primary advantage of using board management software is the ability to centralize all board-related activities in one secure and accessible location. However, without proper management, board activities can become disorganized, time-consuming, and inefficient. After all, mission success is driven by strong leadership.

Management 245

Management Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 245

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 29, 2025

And human beings judge the value of AIs work product. Yet, crucially, these feats are only possible because AI has been created by humans for particular human purposes and trained on diverse, high-quality datasets, including medical journals, market reports, and musical compositions, all of them products of human creativity and expertise.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Medical Production Technology 121

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The ultimate success of these young nonprofits—their ability to fulfill their missions—will depend on many things, but good governance is among the most important. Successfully experimenting with and evolving its governance structure over the last decade has been central to Jump’s success.

Governance 111

Governance Nonprofit governance Nonprofit governance and management Universities 111

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

Johnson , which gave local governments license to fine, ticket, or arrest unhoused people. Its a different kind of organizing and activism, Theoharis explains. The trend lines, in short, are headed in the wrong direction. The Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death.

Homelessness 98

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 98

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 11, 2011

You can save butterflies from extinction, fight water waste from leaky faucets or petition the Chinese government to release the Pandas. If you don’t feel strongly about any one cause, or if you’re trying to choose between two nonprofits that combat the same issue, choose the one that can activate its supporters.

Marketing 237

Marketing Marketing Children Retail 237

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members. Effective governance requires a commitment to all aspects of their role, not just the parts that might seem most appealing or convenient. Each responsibility is interconnected and essential for the overall health and success of the organization.

Ethics 106

Ethics Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Children 106

NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 7, 2023

Last year's 2022 fellows reported a 52% increase in their board governance knowledge and skills after completing the program. This program is an opportunity to immerse myself in comprehensive board governance training, allowing me to be more impactful while doing so in a nonprofit board setting.”

Nonprofit governance and management 244

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Race and Ethnicity 244

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. nafda is an Arabic word referring to deep spring cleaning, typically including shaking things up vigorously.

Education 75

Education Education Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management 75

Selfish Giving

APRIL 25, 2016

Nonprofits Leverage Social Media According to The Guardian , Deborah Alisina , CEO of Bowel Cancer UK , used Twitter to organize “tweet-ups” to initiate dialogue and solicit feedback from cancer survivors on the company’s efforts, and also to rally the web community in an effort to push certain policies forward in the UK government.

Technology 172

Technology Disaster Relief Production Nonprofits 172

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Essentially, this is a folder of Word documents each containing answers to common grant application questions, like organization mission and activities, the greatest challenges our nonprofit faces, how we measure and evaluate program impact, how we recognize funders, etc. Spend time researching your options.

Sociology 95

Sociology Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Children 95

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 145

Public and Social Policy Governance Agriculture Activism 145

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. Companies must recognize that, in reality, labor is a critical resource for productivity growth.

Public and Social Policy 142

Public and Social Policy Technology Civil Society Production 142

Bloomerang

APRIL 29, 2021

It is no wonder some boards are finding it difficult to be productive due to this bickering, eye-rolling, microaggressions, bias, silence, or absence. The Board of Directors is the governing body of a nonprofit. Individuals who sit on a nonprofit board are responsible for overseeing the organization’s activities.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Nonprofits 119

Selfish Giving

JUNE 21, 2020

has a corporate partner, Cool Products Co., a portion of the purchase price from sales of a particular product. has a corporate partner, Cool Products Co., a portion of the purchase price from sales of a particular product. UBIT affects traditional corporate sponsorships (e.g., $X How do we avoid creating taxable income?

Law 147

Law Advertising Public and Social Policy Activism 147

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Culture Poverty 52

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Social media sites like these long ago gave rise to the influencer, an individual with a large following who is paid or receives free products in order to advertise these products to followers. That’s the mass production of cheap, trendy clothes. Cosmetic products in the United States were responsible for over 7.9

Advertising 124

Advertising Production Retail Food 124

Selfish Giving

APRIL 10, 2017

This would include providing personal shopping concierges to enhance the experience and provide unparalleled attention while simultaneously learning shoppers’ individualized preferences for products, interests and social causes. All signs point to online corporate giving and digital partnerships as ways to activate customers.

Retail 213

Retail Nonprofit governance and management Non-Profits Public and Nonprofit Management 213

Ann Green

AUGUST 27, 2024

By Kyle Cannon Although businesses and nonprofits operate in two different worlds, governed by their own unique rules, these organizations are more alike than one might initially think. While your organization isn’t necessarily focused on selling a specific product or service, your purpose is what supporters buy into.

Nonprofit governance and management 156

Nonprofit governance and management Charitable Organizations Nonprofits Production 156

iMarketSmart

MARCH 12, 2025

After peaking between 2021 and 2023, global charitable activities — such as donating, volunteering and helping strangers — declined significantly in 2024. The actual figure is of course much higher, as many people will say they are affiliated with a certain faith but dont actively practice it or attend any services.

Governance 52

Governance Charitable Organizations Medical Technology 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

And while governments and private organizations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Not all market-shaping initiatives in global health were successful, of course.

Finance 116

Finance Health Manufacturing Governance 116

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It was almost like the field had been forgotten, or at least deprioritized, in favor of a focus on activities, programs, and outputs—such as affordable housing development, community investment, job creation, financial coaching, small business support, even neighborhood revitalization—things the traditional CDC field did.

Community Development 135

Community Development Public and Social Policy Governance Production 135

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Climate change, caused primarily by human activity, is driving temperatures up around the world, causing cascading impacts across natural systems. Donors and governments may shift their dollars…to focusing on necessities like food, water, energy, and healthcare. Hailstones are getting bigger and more damaging.

Insurance 130

Insurance Civil Society Healthcare Energy 130

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To achieve this, more businesses need to join with the government and civil society to actively confront inequality, poverty, and climate change together. Most importantly, without farmers producing reliable, high-quality agricultural products, businesses across the apparel, food, and other industrial sectors will quite simply fail.

Agriculture 105

Agriculture Civil Society Poverty Environmental 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As with their environmental footprints, companies need to evaluate how and when they can support health and livelihoods across the full range of their business activities, and then take action across their supply and value chains. Supply Chains. To be both a business and societal success, the company must rethink its design.

Health 122

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Governance 122

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Confusion occurs within corporations, too: imagine the regional manager of a bottling plant for a multinational corporation, responsible for reporting on key ESG metrics to one division within its company but also needing to work with innovation and product development teams, from another division, that need to start designing with ESG in mind.

Social Enterprise 137

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise Nonprofit governance and management Governance 137

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 16, 2021

For example, you could promote your climate change activism through press releases, blog posts, email newsletters, and reports. . By actively participating in green events, you will position your B2B company as a sustainable brand. These could be nonprofits, government initiatives, green communities, etc. .

Marketing 140

Marketing Marketing Environmental Participation and motivation 140

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. Solugen is currently constructing a commercial biomanufacturing facility to scale production—and it is just one of many innovators in this market.

Public and Social Policy 135

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 135

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2022

Productivity goes up compared to maintaining separate information “silos”; everyone has access to the same information, reducing “back and forth” communications that waste time. Improve grant management by linking all relevant financial activity to a particular segment. Dashboards show graphs and visualizations of awards and spending.

Nonprofit governance and management 114

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Nonprofits 114

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 10, 2023

This is because despite the platform’s changing features and leadership, many of their most important stakeholders remain as active users. They have also made some changes to their famous blue checkmark verification process. then Twitter may still be a good option.

Nonprofits 210

Nonprofits Values Leadership Technology 210

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 21, 2024

New futures-oriented organizations and associations, along with future-focused production studios , are emerging almost daily, and some foundations are hiring futurists in residence to inform their work. The word “future” is popping up in conference titles and think pieces. This is not surprising. Sound familiar?

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Technology Governance Activism 137

Selfish Giving

AUGUST 18, 2020

Higher Productivity and Retention An employee who feels engaged and inspired is 125% more productive than the satisfied staffer. Teams of 12 to 15 partner with government, business, and civic leaders to address high–priority issues such as education, health, disaster preparedness, and economic development. New York Times ) 3.

Volunteerism 147

Volunteerism Volunteerism Production Technology 147

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

While organizations like the China Disabled Persons’ Federation aim to support the rights and interests of disabled individuals through assistance obtaining welfare subsidies and other services, only the most severely disabled individuals qualify for government financial aid.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management Technology 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2024

We know that the racial homeownership gap is, in large measure, the product of historic redlining , as well as past and ongoing discrimination. One driver of this ongoing inequality is the current federal system of financing, which largely depends on two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)— Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Finance 131

Finance Production Insurance Values 131

Nonprofit Megaphone

MAY 6, 2023

However, running a nonprofit requires a unique set of skills and knowledge, particularly when it comes to governing the organization. To be an effective board member, it’s essential to have a deep understanding of the nonprofit sector and the best practices for governance.

Governance 52

Governance Nonprofit governance and management Ethics Nonprofit governance 52

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 126

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits 126

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The report analyzed hundreds of industrial facilities across the country and comes at a heightened time when the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new regulations for the pollutants resulting from steel and iron production. Increased regulation is only one needed approach to tackling this persistent and complex problem.

Manufacturing 126

Manufacturing Environmental Health Production 126

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

million smallholder farmers and subsistence farmers depend on maize production for their livelihood. These low-cost methods can also improve the production of large- and small-scale US farmers despite supply chain disruptions. Njinga says the production cost was too high: “I wanted to abandon farming because it was too hard to afford.”

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Food Production Poverty 98