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Meet April’s Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) Cohort

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Effective leadership is crucial for these organizations to thrive and continue to serve their communities.

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Building Community through Holistic Strategy: A Story from a Seattle Immigrant Suburb

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: TuiPhotoengineer on istock.com This is the fifth and final article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America , coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ).

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8 Ways to Keep Donors Engaged after a Giving Day

Ann Green

Create community. Develop a community. Some organizations participating in Give Local America, like Infinite Hands Initiative and the East Hampton Food Pantry , use flyers and other print materials. Lori Finch is the Vice President of Community Giving, Kimbia and the General Manager of Give Local America.

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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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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Nelson Colón of the Puerto Rico Community Foundation, and Clara Miller, president emerita of the Heron Foundation—come from philanthropy. The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. These entities exist throughout the nonprofit sector.

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Protecting Nonprofits That Protect Us During Crises—and Beyond

NonProfit Quarterly

When schools and daycares shuttered, when food and other supply chains broke, who delivered baby supplies to parents juggling virtual work and young children? Who brought food to housebound elders? The nonprofit sector, along with community-based mutual aid networks , stepped up to meet immediate needs.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, we followed a team of founders who were committed to supporting “cottage” food entrepreneurs—mostly women of color who had excellent cooking skills but lacked business skills and ready access to fresh ingredients and licensed kitchens. A How-to Guide for Scaling Deep.