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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: “Sister Secrets ” by Renée Laprise Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2024 issue, “Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement.” 3 Built on the Sesan River, the dam was part of the Chinese government’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which sought to expand its “foreign policy interests.”

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From Gig Work to Good Work: How Workforce Policy Can Support Gig Workers

NonProfit Quarterly

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.

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How Boundaries Can Motivate You

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

When something is overwhelming, like, let’s say, your job as a nonprofit communicator, it’s very hard to feel like you are getting anything done or making any progress at all, no matter how dedicated you are. Think about what governs your time and the tools that you use to manage it. Are you calendar driven?

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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. Share your drafts to get constructive feedback.

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How to Recharge a Nonprofit-Led Affordable Housing Delivery System

NonProfit Quarterly

To achieve this requires a deeper understanding of the current housing crisis and how nonprofits can, with policy support, implement effective solutions. A Nonprofit Solution Before the surge in private equity interest in the single-family housing market, nonprofits were the quiet pistons in the engine of affordable homeownership.

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Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members?

Affnetz

Do You Use Job Descriptions with your Nonprofit Board Members? Nonprofit Management Software / By Mike Crum. There are a lot of nonprofit board member job descriptions online, and you might have a lot of luck putting together a ‘greatest hits’ of sorts – picking and choosing. or who won’t fundraise.

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Co-Leadership as Practice for an Equitable Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stay tuned for new articles from nonprofit leaders using this model at their organizations and share these valuable insights with your colleagues. The model is not exactly new, particularly in the nonprofit sector. Is co-leadership having a moment? Whatever your organization is and does, this needs to be the case!