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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

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. David Patt from the National Assn.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

As philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues in Private Government , people now live most of the time within private authoritarian bureaucracies or firms in which they own nothing, have no authority, and constantly must resist incursions in their private life. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972/73): 151–64.

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Building the Mutual Economy: A Conversation with Steve Dubb, Rithika Ramamurthy, and Manuel Pastor

NonProfit Quarterly

Also, one of the things you talk about concerns the limits of government and how just having the state be the solution isn’t always the best course. Too often, the Left’s answer is “the government” to those questions. So, just saying the government is going to take care of it, we think, rings a little bit hollow.

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Averting Disaster through Preparation: A Conversation with Rebecca Katz and Mackenzie S. Moore

NonProfit Quarterly

The book—which evolved from the Georgetown Outbreak Activity Library (GOAL)—provides “accessible information that ensures a shared understanding of the essential activities to control an outbreak.” We have chapters on epidemiology, governance, communicating with the public, community engagement, and humanitarian response, among others.

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Beyond Karen: White Woman Archetypes in the Third Sector

NonProfit Quarterly

She is evading race and at the very same time is confronted by it whenever she refuses to accept that a capable Black woman actively experiences racism at work. She supports activism, is pro-LGBTQ and proabortion, and she gives the appearance of being pro-Black. —Alicia S. She is quiet and “strategic.”

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Voter Engagement Coordinator

Anedot

Position Summary The Voter Engagement Coordinator manages community partnerships and conducts direct outreach activities to build capacity for Canal neighborhood and San Rafael Latino residents to register to vote and understand their ballots and government elected official roles.

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3 Powerful Virtual Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

Again, because of the huge variety of possible activities, their financial health depends on what nonprofits are into. Types of Nonprofit Activities. Commonly given as grants for scientific or sociological research, free-of-charge in most cases. Donations and Government Grants. Risks and Opportunities of New Reality .