The Kindful Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If the problem you are trying to solve or the need you are addressing isn’t a quick fix but instead long range, ongoing and/or escalating, you might consider forming your own nonprofit. In this post, we’ll review frequently asked questions about starting a nonprofit and nine key steps to get your own organization up and running.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 24, 2022

Nonprofit fraud makes for great headlines— like the Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future accused this year of squandering $48 million of federal funding on luxurious trips, fancy mansions, and other personal costs. . According to The New York Times , the value of nonprofit fraud is approximately $40-50 Billion each year.

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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.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 2, 2024

Managing your nonprofit’s finances is about more than just raising money and recording what you earn and spend. This means it’s crucial not only to manage your organization’s reserve funds well but also to stay aware of the current financial best practices and trends in the nonprofit sector.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Image credit: skyNext on istock.com “We have observed a disconcerting pattern where Black women leaders are vacating their roles, with some leaving the non-profit sector altogether, citing hostility toward their leadership, strain on their health and well-being, unfair job expectations, and limited opportunities for career progression” (3).

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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 Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

While ROC has always been a nonprofit organization, its signature restaurant, Colors, was an LLC, created as a co-op and run by former Windows on the World workers. With the help of our late friend, Bruce Herman , a dozen Windows workers traveled to Italy to learn how to manage a successful worker cooperative restaurant.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2022

It’s easy to see why supporters would turn to the internet to engage with your nonprofit, as well! Your nonprofit’s website is a key channel to connect with supporters, receive donations, and raise awareness for your mission. Making a donation is the most popular conversion for nonprofits to track when it comes to their websites.

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

If you loved our 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2018 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Alliance Management Institute (AMI).

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. To make progress on our most pressing public problems actually requires reaching out across social boundaries.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Services Delivered.

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Fundraiser Ideas

JUNE 13, 2011

According to figures from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, contributions to nonprofit organizations have decreased in recent years. In spite of these obstacles, however, a number of charitable organizations are still managing to maintain solid financial footing in part due to their outstanding fundraising skills.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. One example is human activity causing climate change and contributing to poor health outcomes (e.g.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In early 2022, California’s Central Valley water district experienced theft by its own former general manager. Over the course of 23 years, former general manager Dennis Falaschi stole $25 million worth of water. These tankers supply non-potable water or water that cannot be used for drinking purposes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” 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.” It is no surprise that the technology is extremely faulty and it is deployed almost exclusively in non-White neighborhoods.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food. Now, “it’s hard to even extract their influence from fisheries policy,” Sennott said.

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Ever wondered why so many nonprofits are stuck in their financial struggles that they end up failing their communities? Want to make sure your nonprofit doesn’t suffer the same fate? She helps nonprofits get financially established so they can achieve their goals. And why nonprofits need to learn to put themselves first. (2:47).

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The Charity CFO

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As a nonprofit leader, your financial stewardship is important to remain compliant with the IRS. Not only that, these statements need to be sound and easy to understand so as to provide a window into the financial health of your nonprofit. Statement of activities. But what are the financial statements? Net assets.

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The Charity CFO

AUGUST 15, 2023

The nonprofit sector is full of rewarding and impactful careers because it plays a crucial role in addressing various social, environmental, and humanitarian challenges. In this section, we will debunk the three most common nonprofit accounting myths. However, most of it is actually the same.

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 26, 2023

Nonprofit leaders have an especially hard time understanding, preparing and filing their returns. You see, a 501 nonprofit corporation is recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS but this doesn’t mean they are exempt from filing taxes. Fortunately, filing taxes for a nonprofit doesn’t need to be stressful.

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Virtually all charities and their fundraising firms and consultants routinely take what are — hopefully — prudently calculated risks, based upon past performance, when they prospect … expecting to recoup and then profit from their investment. If everyone approached said yes, acquisition would be a very profitable business. And why not?

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. Effective fundraising culture isn’t just different from the rest of the nonprofit. Penelope Burk writes, “The not-for-profit sector is exactly what its name suggests – a sector constituted to not make a profit. This culture difference goes beyond profit.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 27, 2022

These huge organizations, apart from making big profits by advertising and selling their product, these companies also work on social and environmental issues that are occurring in the world. Let’s discuss some of the globally occurring problems and how marketing resources can help in their management by raising awareness.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. We decided early on to incorporate NeedsList as a for-profit, purpose-driven company. Our reasoning was straightforward: We didn’t want to be seen as competing for funding with the nonprofits using our software. We weren’t alone.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you loved our 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2019 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Nonprofit Technology, and more! Alliance Management Institute (AMI).

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences, both large and small, broad and specialized, here in the U.S. Nonprofit Management.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Nonprofit technology, and more! 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Alliance Management Institute. Alliance Management Institute.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 21, 2021

But if you are like a lot of nonprofit professionals, somewhere along the way a board may have rained on your wealth screening parade. Whether the customer is a for-profit or nonprofit (hey, that’s you!) Of course, much of this data can be discovered online for free with research. However, your time is not free.

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The Agitator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the past decade the number of nonprofits has shot up by 47% to a whopping 1,056,000 organizations. Like it or not, the CEO is the sun around which the governance and operational effectiveness of a nonprofit revolves. But first, the serious and disturbing reasons behind the Agitator Survey. in the same period.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. SD: In Bootstrapped, you describe key aspects of the nation’s social support system—or non-system, as the case may be—as a “dystopian social safety net.” A lot of nonprofits fall into that category.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. I was accepted and enrolled in a program, at the (now defunct) School for International Training, titled Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology.

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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. Despite these challenges and the significant need for solutions, rural mobility is often overlooked in global development.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To that end, a report from the nonprofit Transform Finance , Alternative Ownership Enterprises: An Introduction for Mission-Oriented Investors , authored by Andrea Armeni, Curt Lyon, and Julie Menter, seeks to advance the conversation. Yet another variant is the L3C or low-profit, limited liability company.

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