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Keeping the Finance Person Happy With Major Gifts

NonProfit PRO

In major gifts, there is nothing better than a good finance person to be your partner. If you have a bad one, try to win them over through education, information and appreciation. If you have a good one, pour on the love. They need affirmation just like you do, and they do not get enough of it.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. The answers lie in finances transformative potential to drive systemic change. And why should they?

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Sector Adopting AI, Building Reserves, and Expanding, Survey Shows

NonProfit Quarterly

This is among the takeaways from the 2024 Nonprofit Standards Benchmarking Survey , conducted by accounting and advisory organization BDO, which takes stock of the finances of the US nonprofit sector and other key trends, including the growing use of AI. Nonprofits focused on shoring up their finances in 2024.

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Nonprofit Finances Now

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Nonprofit finances in the United States were relatively strong at the beginning of 2022, largely as a result of government and foundations stepping up their support of nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) represented a massive experiment in innovative financing.

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Nonprofit Seeks to Make Culinary Careers More Accessible

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By James Pollard, Associated Press NEW YORK Jeenah Moon/AP Students from Food and Finance high school make taco dough during a summer block party outside the Barclays Center in New York. The Food Education Fund provides hands-on experiences and mentoring for low-income students of color at 10 New York high schools.

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Brookings Institution Taps Former White House Economist as Next President

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest Plus, Grantmakers for Education has named a new executive director, and the New York Community Trust has picked Dominick Impemba as chief operating and finance officer.

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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Sidral Mundet on Unsplash In Chicago, in 2023, there were 124 active tax increment financing (TIF) districts, which removed over $1.2 In fact, tax increment financing is one of the most common local economic development financing tools around. million people. Its not just Chicago. Lets just call it what it is.