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Seven Steps to Overcoming the Fear of Calling Potential Funders

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In deciding, consciously or not, to skip the cultivation phase, you lose incredible opportunities to connect with people who can facilitate the funding you need to educate young children, house the homeless, or preserve the environment. The sad reality is that though things are slowly improving, most grant proposals will not be funded.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. NGOs scaled solutions to educational problems in India for decades without sufficient reading or math improvement. The second example illustrates an important intermediary step towards eliminating homelessness from a Zero-Problem Philanthropy vision.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. Second, educate the staff and board. These scenarios arent hypothetical. Its slow, but it works.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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How to Interrupt the Public Funds to Private Profits Pipeline: A California Story

NonProfit Quarterly

Instead, public banks partner with local banks to expand community-driven impacts. At PBEB, weve focused on educating our community about how a public bank differs from private commercial banks. In California, public banks are barred from competing with local financial institutions.

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Connecting Faith Institutions to Capital

NonProfit Quarterly

He indicated that the church’s history fuels much of its mission work, including supporting a homelessness ministry and operating a voting precinct at the church to make sure that local West Jackson residents are not disenfranchised. “Faith institutions. Faith institutions, he noted, in many communities are often “the only game in town.

Finance 101
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Rambling or Relevant?

Getting Attention

House homeless individuals, veterans and others with special needs. Are a community development org in Trenton, and foster self-reliant families in sustainable communities. Are a touring, international dance company plus a dance education center in Brooklyn. Are a NYC-based social services agency.