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Culture Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit Organizations 
Candid
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Here’s a familiar scene: your nonprofit organization just won its first big grant, and you’re ecstatic. We’ve had our own share of nonprofit compliance undertakings over the years. In 2023, Candid completed our first external SOC 2 audit, a collaborative effort across our administrative teams. At Candid, we can relate.
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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.
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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
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 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.
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.
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. To better understand how candidates in Montana view the nonprofit sector and their visions for partnership, MNA created a candidate questionnaire with three simple questions related to the nonprofit sector.
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.
Blue Avocado
AUGUST 13, 2024
We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the biggest mistakes you see new nonprofits making?” Too often new nonprofits struggle to find their identity. Nonprofits are not social clubs , they have the potential to make significant positive impacts in the communities they serve. Great question.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JANUARY 31, 2024
In ancient storytelling, heroes usually possessed a virtue that the author wanted the culture to emulate and begin to reproduce within the body politic. Nonprofit leaders must be courageous because of the work they do. Some organizational cultures promote avoiding certain types of conflicts at all costs.
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The Volunteer Hub
APRIL 21, 2022
Without cybersecurity policies and protocols in place, your nonprofit is more vulnerable to data breaches. According to a cybersecurity survey conducted by Microsoft, 60% of nonprofit respondents do not know of or do not have a digital data policy for handling cybersecurity risks and protecting data. Here are 5.
Clairification
OCTOBER 21, 2024
How do you help people afraid of fundraising become comfortable in what should be a mission-aligned role for everyone associated with your nonprofit organization? Not just development staff. What’s holding you back? After all, everyone benefits from increased philanthropy.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 12, 2024
Nonprofit organizations, however, have been less involved in this moment of technological innovation. The nonprofit sector faces widespread challenges, including a lack of investment in research and development and a shortage of staff with AI expertise, that other sectors don’t. To some degree, this makes sense.
Bloomerang
MARCH 30, 2023
Effective volunteer management vital to an organization’s day-to-day operations, meaning nonprofits need to invest in smart volunteer management practices to reduce administrative overhead and increase volunteer retention. Instead, it’s the foundation of your volunteer program and a top priority for your nonprofit.
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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. The Executive Director is responsible for MNA, its talented staff, and the resources entrusted to the organization.
The Charity CFO
APRIL 22, 2024
In many nonprofits, burnout is the emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion of employees due to prolonged stress. The impact of this goes beyond individual well-being and can affect your organization’s effectiveness and ability to advance your mission. The term burnout is more than a buzzword.
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. Changing prevailing cultural narratives is challenging but necessary, and people like Meihao Pan are leading the way.
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?
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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The Charity CFO
DECEMBER 14, 2022
A nonprofit organizational chart is essential for the company’s success and growth. The internal structure or hierarchy of the organization must be organized and efficient to ensure that there are adequate resources and personnel in place to achieve its goals and mission. What are Nonprofit Organizational Charts?
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.
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. Maintaining healthy financial management is critical for the organization’s sustainability, stability, and flexibility, now and in the future. Nonprofit fiscal policy.
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CNPE
MARCH 3, 2022
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence has unveiled some new packaging, but in our case that’s not all! The new packaging reflects broader changes within our organization. Yes, we still have great classes on fundraising and nonprofit management. And yes, we still provide networking opportunities for the nonprofit community.
The Charity CFO
APRIL 15, 2022
During the “Great Recession,” nonprofits have lost their accountants and financial directors at record rates. At the same time, hundreds of nonprofits are waking up to realize that the financial structure they’ve always relied on doesn’t work as well any more. So why do accountants leave nonprofit organizations?
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Developing motivational gift structures. Administrators want cash, not assets. This frustrates administrators’ desire for instant gratification. Administrators want unrestricted cash, not restricted gifts. The guiding sage frustrates administrators’ desire for instant gratification. To a different organization.
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
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. And I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS Fundraising, which is a global fundraising consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations. As nonprofits, we have the missions of our organizations.
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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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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second 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 ). And it has made all the difference in avoiding displacement.
iMarketSmart
OCTOBER 10, 2022
But a nonprofit is not just a fundraising organization. It’s also an operational organization. In the donor-hero story, charity administrators are minions. The administrator’s role is only to dutifully obey donor orders. What works for this group is the administrator-hero story.[1] Culture conflict.
Anedot
AUGUST 29, 2024
Contracts Administrator About the Organization Canal Alliance exists to break the generational cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants and their families by lifting barriers to their success. Canal Alliance is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 22, 2024
Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Collaboration among community members, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and local governments allows resources to flow where they’re needed and is a powerful way to help address race and climate inequities. In late 2021, FEMA finally changed that policy that had kept thousands of Black families from accessing aid.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
.” This proved prescient: When our NGO’s legal documents could no longer be updated without my legal residence—after almost a year of failed attempts—I had to resign and pass the legal representation to our dedicated administrator, who had served the organization since its inception. ” When Is It time?
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 19, 2023
“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 2, 2024
The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.
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Momentum Nonprofit Partners
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Nonprofits bring unique perspectives to lawmakers. Staying informed prevents blindsided disruptions.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 7, 2023
A typical home care worker earns even less, just $18,100 per year, according to PHI , the nonprofit organization formerly known as the Paraprofessional Health Institute. Peninsula is also able to thrive with the support, training, and resources of the Northwest Cooperative Development Center , which provides support to all five co-ops.
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iMarketSmart
MAY 17, 2023
Gift officer turnover is holding so many nonprofit organizations back. It’s also holding them back in their internal culture. Some experienced major gift officers have seen the same donor prospects interact with up to 15 different MGOs over the course of their years of involvement with the organization. What about you?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Over the last year, she had to visit the emergency room at the local hospital three times when she and members of her family developed severe respiratory symptoms. For example, a solution to help Elisa manage her diabetes might not work in her community because of the cultural or economic barriers that are present. Elisa isn’t alone.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
Image: “ The Universe Delivers” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Corporate capture is visible too in the names adorning the walls of nonprofit university and hospital buildings. Decades ago, Philip K.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2025
Even in the best of times, immigrant families face challenges in accessing healthcare, dealing with issues concerning language and cultural alignment, racism, and discrimination. To find out, NPQ interviewed a number of nonprofit leaders who are mobilizing to mitigate the impact of enforcement actions. In the Border Report , Melissa M.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 14, 2024
Image: “Judgement” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” When asked to think about corporate capture’s nefarious impact in the world, I don’t have to look very far: Consider my own industry—the nonprofit sector.
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The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Count the Salvation Army among organizations where leaders are bullish on the day, despite the late date directly impacting one of its unique fundraising channels — the bell ringers who stand aside its trademark Red Kettles. “We What GivingTuesday has done in culture and is continuing to do as it grows in strength is create that moment.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 6, 2025
Forged amid the suffering, deaths, and neglect that prevailed in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, this peer-led group is working to develop a model of care for nursing home residents, older adults, and people with disabilities that is guided by core principles of dignity, inclusivity, and collaboration.
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