Redefine Philanthropy as a Cultural Revolution
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
As donations decline and donors look elsewhere to support good causes, nonprofits should consider a cultural revolution around philanthropy.
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3 Ways to Drive a Culture of Philanthropy Instead of a Culture of Charity
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There is a lot of talk in our industry about developing a culture of philanthropy. But what does developing a culture of philanthropy really mean in the day-to-day life of a nonprofit professional? It’s the hot buzzword these days at strategic planning sessions and board retreats.
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9 Steps to Guarantee Growth by Focusing on Culture
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Here are nine steps to remember when building or rebuilding the culture at your highly aligned, dynamic organization.
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Organizational Culture Is a Verb, Not a Policy
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 17, 2022
In newer startup organizations, culture begins to take shape through experiences led by those at the top. Culture doesn’t happen on day five, day 50 or even day 500. . The inaugural leader has their own vision and values they bring to the table, which the organization experiences over the long arc of time.
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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right
Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg
💪 Embedding recognition into your culture: Find out how to make recognition a habit that fosters accountability, ultimately leading to increased retention and stronger teams. Key objectives: 💡 Turn “feel good” into “do good”: Discover how recognition programs can shift from intangible benefits to real business impact.
The Importance of Positive Nonprofit Office Culture
NonProfit PRO
JULY 8, 2022
Today’s nonprofit employees better understand the concept of workplace culture. Currently, the job world is upside down due to factors such as employees working from home, compressed or hybrid work schedules, salary constraints and new demands from employees who feel like they control the job market.
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Jewish Nonprofit Boards Perform Well But Need to Diversify, Build Stronger Cultures
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 5, 2024
A new report shows that Jewish nonprofit boards perform well but could build stronger cultures, diversify, and improve in other ways.
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Beyond Employee Training: How to Create a Learning Culture in Nonprofit Organizations
NonProfit Leadership Center
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
From for-profit companies to nonprofits of every size, one of the best indicators of high-performing organizations is a dedicated focus on creating a learning culture. What is a learning culture, and how do you know if your organization has one? What is a learning culture? Ask team members about their learning interests.
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Easiest Strategies to Instill a Nonprofit Philanthropy Culture
NonProfit PRO
JULY 13, 2022
If you desperately want to instill a culture of philanthropy, but it’s just not coming together, read these practical tactics to attack the problem from the sides rather than head on.
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Building a Strong Organizational Culture for Greater Impact and Engagement
NonProfit PRO
JULY 31, 2023
But a vital ingredient for the secret sauce is teamwork, and you get the best of your squad by building a great organizational culture. The fact is that nonprofits have a lot going on with their missions, programs and, of course, getting donors to give to their causes.
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Getting Forward to Normal: The Road Ahead for Museums and Cultural Institutions
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 24, 2021
Few museums and cultural institutions have found fundraising innovation to be enough in these challenging times, but there are some innovations from the space worth sharing in the hopes of helping many of these venerable and venerated institutions pull through.
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What’s Your People’s Strategic Plan? Why Nonprofit Leaders Should Invest in Talent and Culture
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
What nonprofit leaders need is a "people’s strategic plan," a clear and consistent framework and set of measurable actions to invest in their people and culture. Just like organizations have a strategic plan to achieve financial and programmatic goals, they need a roadmap to invest in talent development, too.
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How to Create a Culture of Fundraising on Your Board
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 15, 2024
By Lisa Schohl Getty Images You shouldn’t assume trustees know how to raise money simply because they joined your board, experts say. Here are nine ways to build a board that prioritizes fundraising — and help them succeed.
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Nonprofit Policy + On Trend Video + Pop Culture + Humor? YES
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
APRIL 18, 2023
And connect to a pop culture phenomenon? I think it’s a lovely example of both authenticity and living in the moment — both the policy moments of the issues you work on and the larger cultural moments that frame everything we do as nonprofits. The post Nonprofit Policy + On Trend Video + Pop Culture + Humor?
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Cultivating High-Performance Culture Amid ‘The Great Exhaustion’
NonProfit PRO
JUNE 6, 2024
The path through the Great Exhaustion lies not in groundbreaking strategies but in embracing foundational leadership practices.
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'Start With Culture Change': The Work Boards Must Do Before Launching Diversity Efforts
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 16, 2024
Nonprofit leaders, trustees, and consultants discuss what can go wrong when organizations focus on board diversity without first creating an inclusive board culture.
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How to Strengthen Your Nonprofit’s Cultural Competencies
NonProfit PRO
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
Nonprofits are staffed by incredibly competent and dedicated people — experts who understand their work backward and forward, whether it be housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or supporting these programs through effective fundraising and building sustainable solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.
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6 Ways to Create a Culture of Givers At Your Organization (a Tribute to Heidi Dressler)
Joan Garry
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
The post 6 Ways to Create a Culture of Givers At Your Organization (a Tribute to Heidi Dressler) appeared first on Joan Garry Consulting. So many members of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab are pure, unadulterated Givers. But Heidi was the “Queen Giver”.
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Bringing Organizational Cultures Together for Social Impact
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
By Tirza Gapp & Jennifer Howard-Grenville When different organizational cultures—the proverbial “how we do things”—come together, tensions frequently arise. Working effectively with and across cultures is even more challenging when organizations come together to tackle social and environmental challenges.
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Don’t Take Shortcuts: Stretch to Build Capacity and a Genuine Culture of Philanthropy
NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
While some major donors are helping to boost overall giving in terms of dollars, the number of donors is shrinking. There are some nonprofit leaders who take shortcuts. Some shortcuts include not building capacity — the fuel to fund their mission and the people to whom they serve.
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Being and Building Beloved Community: The Intersection of Culture and Economy
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
In short, Memphis developed a culturally rich Black middle-class neighborhood. In Memphis today—and indeed throughout the South—Black Americans are organizing to rebuild cultural institutions and restore Black economies. A Culture of Abundance So, who was Church, and what was his vision? People like writer Ida B.
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5 Trends Fundraisers Need to Watch in 2024
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JANUARY 4, 2024
Among the forces that will shape development this year: artificial intelligence, the explosion of DAFs, and the culture wars. By Rasheeda Childress Getty Images Among the forces that will shape development this year: artificial intelligence, the explosion of DAFs, and the culture wars.
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Shifting power: How the Ford Foundation’s DEI commitment is transforming culture and impact
Candid
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Shifting culture: A commitment to inclusive policies and practices benefits all staff While we’re proud of this progress, we know the numbers only tell one side of the story. From 2013 to 2023, women’s representation on the executive leadership team jumped from 22% to 67%, and the share of people of color increased from 56% to 78%.
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What gives in Nebraska? The Buffett effect and a culture of giving
Candid
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
It is part of our culture and what gives our region a competitive advantage.” A strong culture of giving? The report’s researchers posit that a relatively stable economy, strong religious influences, and Midwestern values may also contribute to a strong culture of giving.
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How French Gates’s $12.5 Billion Could Move the Needle for Women
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 12, 2024
To change the economic and social structures that harm women, she should invest in caregiving, reproductive rights, and cultural change.
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Art + Activism = Change. But It's a Formula Philanthropy Largely Ignores.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Shifting cultural attitudes is the key to lasting social change. By Ken Grossinger Shifting cultural attitudes is the key to lasting social change. That’s why grant makers need to encourage and support alliances between artists and advocates.
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Major Funders Bet Big on Rural America and 'Everyday Democracy'
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 17, 2024
By Drew Lindsay Courtesy of Sipp Culture Grocery stores near Utica, Miss., have closed, so residents came together with the nonprofit Sipp Culture to create a community farm and commercial greenhouse.
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What Michael Bloomberg's Plan to Transfer His Company to Charity Could Mean for Philanthropy
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
APRIL 25, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Alastair Grant, PA Wire, AP Michael Bloomberg has given extensively to education and to nonprofits focused on arts and culture, the environmental, public health, and improving city governments around the world.
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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast. So Make Culture Your Focus. (Blog)
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
By Susan K. Urahn How can organizational leaders create an environment that balances the needs of the individual, the needs of the institution, and the needs of the work?
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Ford Foundation’s Efforts to Elevate Disability Rights Holds Lessons for Other Grant Makers
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
DECEMBER 6, 2022
Its successes and setbacks show what it takes to change a cultural mind-set. After facing criticism about its lack of attention to disability inclusion, Ford set out to integrate the issue into all its work.
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Just Announced! 2023 Spring Nonprofit Training Events
NonProfit Leadership Center
MARCH 6, 2023
new training events and certificate programs to help you renew your commitment to growth and to nurture your organization’s learning culture. REGISTER The Anatomy of Culture: Building Organizational Culture from the Inside Out — June 7 What makes a an organizational culture strong?
9 Questions to Help Boards Run More Inclusive Meetings — and Make Better Decisions
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
By Katie Smith Milway and Susan Wolf Ditkoff Getty Images Start with the “big why,” and more advice that can help board leaders build agendas and cultures that ensure every trustee’s voice is heard.
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How Storytelling Can Help Personalize Donor Communications
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Nonprofits that create an internal storytelling culture can excite staff and volunteers, entice new supporters, strengthen relationships with donors, and raise more funds. Storytelling can entertain, educate and entice people to act. Nonprofits have more stories at their fingertips than any other organization.
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Communicating With Confidence: 5 Tips to Communicate With Groups Effectively
NonProfit Leadership Center
JUNE 3, 2024
Healthy team dynamics promote a more collaborative workplace, a healthier culture, and more productive teamwork. Promote a positive team culture. Language and culture are interconnected. Communication becomes more complex as cultural diversity increases, but this is NOT a bad thing! Know how to support your team.
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5 Ways Nonprofits Can Lose Their Tax-Exempt Status
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 25, 2024
Let’s explore five areas where nonprofits may compromise their tax-exempt status, as well as strategies for imbuing a culture of compliance.
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A $150 Million Grant Will Strengthen Catholic Education in Northwest Indiana
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JUNE 20, 2024
Plus, the Shubert Foundation awarded $40 million in unrestricted grants to 653 nonprofit arts and culture organizations, and the Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $15 million to remove 15 million pounds of floating plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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Innovative Leadership — Culture Doesn’t Have to Eat Strategy: Tending to Human Factors During Strategic Planning
Blue Avocado
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast” is often true – certainly there are situations where strategy is consumed by culture – but strategy and culture are not mutually exclusive. Values both reflect, influence, and reinforce culture, and we wanted ours to be able to help us make decisions and get things done.
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Trust in Science Has Eroded Since the Pandemic Began. How Should Philanthropy Respond?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MARCH 16, 2023
Grant makers can foster a culture that acknowledges and addresses science’s imperfections. By Sam Gill and Elizabeth Christopherson Both historical mistreatment of people of color and widespread misinformation have diminished confidence in medical science.
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Navigating Return-to-Office Policies in a Work-From-Home World
NonProfit PRO
MAY 18, 2023
Few topics have been as polarizing in workplace culture as return-to-office policies. From organizations embracing a new, work-from-anywhere era to those mandating a return to five days a week in the office, every solution has its supporters and detractors.
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These Lottery Winners Put Millions to Philanthropy. Now Their Foundation Is Closing.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
AUGUST 23, 2023
By Maria Di Mento Sergio Estrada After winning a multimillion-dollar fortune in the California Lottery, Alcario and Carmen Castellano created a family foundation and gave $10 million to support Latinx arts and culture, education nonprofits.
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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Some challenges may be less tangible, such as cultural differences and values. But by building an organizational culture that cuts across borders to unify staff, team members are better equipped to build bonds across time zones. Commitment to learning goes hand in hand with respect.
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Effective Strategies to Attract and Retain Top Nonprofit Talent
NonProfit Leadership Center
JUNE 17, 2024
Retention Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations Creating a Positive Work Culture One of the most critical components to retaining your top talent is creating and fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture. THEY are your organizational culture. How do you do that? Just ask your employees.
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Phil and Penny Knight Pledge $400 Million to Rebuild Historic Black Neighborhood
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
MAY 1, 2023
By Maria Di Mento 1803 Fund Phil Knight (third from left) and Penny Knight pledged $400 million to establish the 1803 Fund’s Rebuild Albina program, an effort to rebuild the economic and cultural prosperity of a historic area of Portland that was once a thriving Black neighborhood.
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Why Nonprofits Must Make Peace with Turnover
NonProfit PRO
JULY 21, 2022
Turnover is often seen as evidence of a problematic organizational culture. If letters of resignation are swirling about, the assumption is something must be broken. But, turnover will always be a factor, and it may be a growing aspect of the new normal due to circumstances beyond our control.
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