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Nonprofit Support for Hurricane Recovery

NonProfit Leadership Center

As Florida communities face the aftermath of back-to-back hurricanes that have caused extreme devastation across the state, nonprofit organizations continue to step in and step up to help individuals, families and communities recover, rebuild and restore hope. Many resources are available to help address the unexpected needs now facing nonprofits and communities in the Tampa Bay region and beyond.

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How Effective Board Engagement Can Help You Score Big With Year-End Fundraising

NonProfit PRO

Your board is a critical part of your year-end fundraising strategy. Here are some tips for getting them involved and engaged.

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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Missvain on Wikimedia Commons Equitable access to healthcare is a key element to lessening the racial health disparities that have existed throughout the history of the United States. But how can we increase access to care when many communities of color lack hospitals and clinics? By thinking beyond traditional healthcare delivery models that require people to come to immovable buildings, advocates of health justice can bring healthcare to the people.

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Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It

Veritus Group

No matter where you are in your career or with an organization, it's important to take a step back and evaluate. Here's how to do a gut check. The post Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It appeared first on Veritus Group.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Big Bet Bonanza

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Kevin Starr In the spring, I wrote a piece called “ Big Bet Bummer.” It was probably as close as I’ll ever get to real reporting, which is to say that it was mostly a recounting of what I heard from frustrated leaders at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford. Mostly it was about the “funding cliff,” the thing that happens when big bet-driven dreams meet current funding realities.

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6 Strategies to Convey Your Most Emotional Fundraising Appeal Story

Clairification

People are wired for stories. We use them to understand our world. But do the same stories work in any time? For any person? No. You need to understand your SMIT story – ‘Single Most Important Thing’ – at this moment in time. And that SMIT will change, depending on the environment in which you’re operating. You need to know your audience. Today. The story you told last year may not work as well this year.

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Engagement scores plus a few dollars will get you a cup of coffee

Jeff Brooks

You’ve likely been approached by someone who says they can take your fundraising to new heights through some kind of “engagement” magic on social media. Before you direct any of your budget toward them, read this post at The Agitator: Engagement Scores: The Empty Calories of Fundraising/Marketing. “Engagement” — actions like click, like, attend, follow — are not as valuable as some are claiming them to be.

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Thank You Lilly Ledbetter, Equal Pay Champion, 4/14/34–10/12/24

Fundraising Leadership

Issue 275 — October 14, 2024 I was so sad to learn of the death of Lilly Ledbette r, a leader of the movement for pay equity. She was moved by her own story to fight for equal pay regardless of gender first for herself, and then for all women. After learning that her pay had been for years substantially less than male coworkers doing the same job, Lilly became the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Ledbetter v.

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The Connective Tissue of Democracy

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Photo by Bioscience Image Library by Fayette Reynolds on Unsplash The connective tissue of American civil society—the associations, clubs, congregations, and other spaces where people gather and experience collective life—has deteriorated significantly in recent decades, diminishing community resilience and jeopardizing the health of our democracy. While the roots of this civic crisis are complex, remedial action is imperative.

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Director of Finance

Anedot

Position Title: Director of Finance Reports To: Chief Executive Officer Supervision Requirements: Supervises Bookkeeper and Accounting Coordinator. Location: San Rafael, CA Hours: Full-time, salaried, exempt status Salary Range: $95,004 – $122,148 BACKGROUND The Agricultural Institute of Marin is an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Rafael, California.

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Recognition Powers High-Performance — If You Do it Right

Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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How to Become a Savvy Fundraiser

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

What does it take to become a successful fundraiser in today’s competitive nonprofit environment? In this episode, Haley Cooper, fundraising expert and host of the Lead with Heart podcast, shares key strategies for becoming a savvy fundraiser. Haley discusses the most pressing challenges nonprofit leaders face, such as staff turnover and donor retention, and how to build sustainable fundraising… Source What does it take to become a successful fundraiser in today’s competitive nonprof

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How to Scale a Nonprofit Organization with Sarah Silvestri

The Charity CFO

If you want to scale a nonprofit organization, it’s going to take a lot of discipline and patience. On a recent episode of the Modern Nonprofit podcast, host Tosha Anderson sat down with Sarah Silvestri, co-founder of Executive Arm , to discuss the challenges and strategies for scaling nonprofit organizations. With over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, Sarah shared valuable insights on how founders can navigate the complexities of growth while maintaining their passion and v