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Busting the Overhead Myth

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building? Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. What is the Overhead Myth?

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Building Infrastructure to Support Equity: A Conversation with Dr. Akilah Watkins

NonProfit Quarterly

Akilah Watkins, who previously led the Center for Community Progress and has been a leader in the CEO Circle, a group of community development leaders of color, became president and CEO of Independent Sector in January 2023. The nonprofit sector is hugely important both economically and socially to this country.

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How Environmental Education Is Moving into High Schools

NonProfit Quarterly

In 2021, Howard University and the National Equity Lab (Ed Equity) revisited their partnership and sought to change that by expanding access to climate education in Title 1 high schools across the country. As students explored, developers are no longer focusing on the beachfront land that South Florida is famous for.

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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. To assess risk, the newly formed Federal Housing Administration hired the University of Michigan’s Ernest Fisher and Prudential’s Frederick Babcock.

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ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Greg Fine – a marketing consultant that works to elevate nonprofit marketing impact, revitalize giving campaigns, and bring energy and awareness to nonprofit brands and their mission. Artificial intelligence is simplifying the nonprofit slog work that ties up enormous banks of time and resources. Please cite sources.”

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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. 4) Tell the Nonprofit Tech for Good community about Donadora: Are the donors predominately Mexican? Video is an opportunity for NGOs to gain a foothold in the media universe. are quickly replacing TV.

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Credit Unions, Race, and Equity: A Conversation with Michael McCray and Cliff Rosenthal

NonProfit Quarterly

In 1979, I discovered financial cooperatives—namely, credit unions—and I joined the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions in 1980. Michael McCray: I was born into community development finance. So, there was kind of a stigma to credit unions serving low-income communities. Why is this?

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