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Culture Governance Nonprofit Administration and Development 
The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
What isn’t widely seen by the public is how no matter which party is in power the sector must often follow the elected around cleaning up the government’s mess like the guy at the circus who carries a shovel and follows the elephants. Just a side comment on general failings of the nonprofit sector. Where did all the fervor go?
Candid
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Here’s a familiar scene: your nonprofit organization just won its first big grant, and you’re ecstatic. But before receiving funds, you need to show you’re legally registered, governed by a board, and have solid financial management policies. We’ve had our own share of nonprofit compliance undertakings over the years.
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Anedot
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to our mission, have demonstrated success in nonprofit administration and the ability to inspire and lead a largely volunteer-driven organization. Foster a positive, inclusive, and collaborative organizational culture that empowers volunteers and maximizes their contributions.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. Another path leads to it being purchased by a “farm incubator” who will make it available to refugee farmers growing culturally meaningful crops and contributing to their economic mobility. About 20 percent are seated within government.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 17, 2023
How do you shift the culture of a mostly White organization to become truly multiracial? When inviting them, MIP was clear about its approach: MIP was looking to change the organization’s culture, including that of the Steering Committee. Second, note the themes raised in those conversations and develop an action plan based on them.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
MARCH 25, 2024
At the Nonprofit Leadership Center, we’re on a mission to develop and connect nonprofit leaders to strengthen organizations and our communities. However, recent research from the Florida Nonprofit Alliance and National Council of Nonprofits shows that our sector is experiencing a workforce shortage crisis.
Anedot
APRIL 8, 2025
Organizational growth – externally to strengthen and expand programs, and internally for board expansion and training, staff development, support and retention. Assess the staff and provide support, training and professional development, as needed. Ensure adherence to nonprofit regulations and best practices.
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Have you ever sat through a board development retreat and thought, “What a waste of time!” Use the following checklist to make sure you have all the essential elements in place to ensure the boad development retreat is a resounding success. and “How should our culture be manifested in board behavior and contributions?”
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 3, 2023
The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 24, 2024
Practitioners developing financial practices that run counter to those centering monetary profit need to ask ourselves: how do we learn and take wisdom from trying different approaches and keep going, weaving these lessons into more liberatory versions of investing in our future? The term “regenerative finance” also gets thrown around a lot.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 31, 2023
Image Credit: cottonbro studio on unsplash.com Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. Community development financial institutions play an important role in elevating community voice. This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation.
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MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2024
We know that decisions made in Helena and in Washington, DC have an enormous impact on our work as nonprofits. We also know that partnering with government and the public sector is critical to advance our missions and build thriving communities. We are excited to share the responses with you in our Nonprofit Voter Guide.
Bloomerang
APRIL 9, 2021
We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. This is not a trick at all and you all are really in for a treat.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Image credit:Rayson Tan on Unsplash Below is a transcript, edited for length and clarity, of “Escaping Corporate Capture: Nonprofit Survival in a For-Profit World,” hosted by Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY, on July 26, 2024. Moderating the conversation are Caroline Crumpacker of Ultra Advising and Steve Dubb of Nonprofit Quarterly.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 7, 2023
There are also opportunities to advance equity and establish more community-responsive co-governance in the process. Connie Binkowitz, director of development and external policy at CTC, described how, in 2020, the organization received a grant from the Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development (DHCD).
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Understanding the Role of the SBA The leading source of small business financing nationally is federally guaranteed small business loans through the US Small Business Administration. To make the purchase, workers generally use bank debt secured with a Small Business Administration (SBA) guarantee.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 31, 2023
Obi noted that when she first joined BECMA in the summer of 2020 to help with operations, there was really only one full-time staff person, founding executive director Segun Idowu (who left at the end of 2021 to join the administration of newly elected Mayor Michelle Wu). I’m new to the nonprofit space. This included $1.5
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
From 2000 to 2021, progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been anemic, registering less than 10 percent growth over 20 years. In other words, companies are benefiting from a culture of using data to make decisions. What explains this massive split between the corporate and the social sectors?
MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 5, 2024
It made me attuned as to what it was to feel like you don’t belong and how important it is to create social structures and a culture that is deeply welcoming and inclusive for everybody. Foundations can also support public engagement, voter registration…voting rights work, election protection, and election administration work.
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NonProfit Hub
OCTOBER 27, 2017
Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions. Go big, or go home.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Mississippi has a rich culture, but for generations, its Black communities have experienced health inequities intertwined with discrimination, poverty, and racial exclusion. The Food Justice Collaborative’s efforts and the other aforementioned programs are helping to turn the tide in cooperative food system development as well.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 5, 2024
The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Almost everyone will temporarily or permanently experience disability at some point in their lives, and currently, an estimated 1.3
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 20, 2023
A team of worker-owners built the initial scaffolding of our membership program, which would provide back-end administration and other technical assistance in exchange for a sliding-scale (pay what you can) monetary pledge and a commitment to solidarity exchange with another group. Photo by Francisco Benavides.
Anedot
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to our mission, have demonstrated success in nonprofit administration and the ability to inspire and lead a largely volunteer-driven organization. Foster a positive, inclusive, and collaborative organizational culture that empowers volunteers and maximizes their contributions.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
DECEMBER 20, 2020
How to Train Your Nonprofit Team in 5 Easy & Effective Steps. Nonprofit training is a critical component of running a successful organization. With these five steps, you can create a culture of learning within your team. Nonprofits hire for passion. Effective nonprofit professional development !
Blue Avocado
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit apply for grants. Most nonprofits strive to include grant funding in their revenue streams but often find that large amounts of know-how (as well as a time commitment from the executive level down to the front line) are needed. Read on to find out more! will be handled in the application.
Nonprofit Fixer
JULY 19, 2024
Have you ever wanted to run a nonprofit – and wondered how exactly someone becomes an executive director or CEO? Can people leap straight from a business career to leading a nonprofit? The good news is that the nonprofit sector prides itself on embracing people with diverse skills, backgrounds, and experiences.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 31, 2023
Modern philanthropy in the US emerged in the early 20th century and was developed primarily by the robber barons of the time. A handful of groups started by embedding anti-racism and equity in their grant programs and found that the process raised questions about leadership and governance throughout the organization.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 13, 2023
Image Credit: Tom Barrett on unsplash.com In some states, the administration of elections is (relatively) uncontroversial. The organization serves as a kind of voter engagement clearing house for its partners, who consist of some 60 nonprofit organizations around the state. “It Not so in Georgia.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? Natives of the city have gone through false promises of positive urban development 4 —development that instead, in most cases, came at an unbearable cost.
The Charity CFO
JANUARY 5, 2023
Many nonprofit organizations tend to let their financial management slip on the backburner as they get busy fulfilling their mission. Without a good grasp of your finances, your nonprofit risks: Exposure to fraud. Well, the answer lies in understanding and implementing these 7 essentials of nonprofit financial management.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Simplifying and streamlining the permitting process can reduce the administrative burden on solar developers, leading to cost savings that can be passed on to consumers. Community solar initiatives also promote a sense of shared responsibility for sustainability, fostering a culture of environmental awareness in Alberta.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 13, 2024
Today, nonprofit fundraising and especially large capital campaigns emphasize naming opportunities to attract seven-, eight-, and nine-figure donations from high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). In response, I returned to school to study fundraising and nonprofit sector leadership and their relationship to normative ethics.
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The Charity CFO
DECEMBER 14, 2022
A nonprofit organizational chart is essential for the company’s success and growth. A nonprofit organization chart, also known as an org chart or organogram chart, is a useful tool that is used to create a graphical representation of the structure of the organization and its various departments. Let’s find out.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 27, 2023
All Moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. And we’ll also hear from Amaha Sellassie of Gem City, a food cooperative in Dayton, Ohio — all moderated by Steve Dubb of the Nonprofit Quarterly. [00:02:02] So there are about 315 of these nonprofit organizations worldwide. So the nonprofit owns the land.
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
And I’m grateful beyond words for all the things that you’ve done for the nonprofit world and for Bloomerang, you know, great software, great customer service. And he’s been in your shoes he’s actually founded eight nonprofits. Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important.
The Charity CFO
MARCH 30, 2022
When a founder plays a significant role in building and running a nonprofit, it’s easy for people to think that the founder “is” the nonprofit. Now she helps counsel nonprofit leaders on how to make their transition successful. For more nonprofit accounting resources check out [link]. A Modern Nonprofit Podcast.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 11, 2024
By Caroline Whistler & Tony Gherardini As of 2023, nearly 20 million people are employed by the government at the state and local level. Despite playing a crucial role, government agencies across the United States are facing a challenge.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 29, 2025
This year, the REI Union is backing the campaigns of two nonprofit leaders as candidates Shemona Moreno , executive director of 350 Seattle , and Tefere Gebre , chief program officer at Greenpeace USA in hopes of installing pro-worker voices at the highest levels of the company. The company also denies stalling in negotiations.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Image: “Refusing to Settle For Less” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” In March 2024, I found myself in an extremely contradictory yet familiar position with some of our national partners.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 16, 2024
The interview that follows explores the history of the Clayborn Temple, the project to restore it, and the vision of Troutman and her colleagues to use the temple as a hub for developing a community-based economy in Memphis that i s Black-owned, Black-governed, and which sustains a thriving culture rooted in the Black imagination.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? So our land, our languages, our kinship systems, our governances were forced out of us.” Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”
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