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Education Governance Management 
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The CNP credential gave me the tools I needed to run programs, manage grants, and navigate the complexities of nonprofit leadership. Nonprofits fill the gap s that governments can t , she explained. The CNP program helped me build a strong foundation in nonprofit management and leadership, she said.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 23, 2024
In particular, a devastating economic and institutional meltdown that began in 2019 has taken a huge toll on schools and on education in the country. Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
APRIL 28, 2024
While some skills are innate, many nonprofit management skills can be taught. Before diving into vital nonprofit management skills, let’s explore how developing these skills enhances careers and strengthens the sector as a whole. Nonprofit Management Skill #3: Public Speaking An astounding 75% of people fear public speaking.
Candid
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Candid education programming manager Lori Guidry answers some of the most commonly asked questions about nonprofit boards, including members responsibilities and what to do when theyre not being met. The post Getting nonprofit boards on board: Recruiting, governance, and fundraising appeared first on Candid insights.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
DECEMBER 16, 2024
For more than a decade, Yasmeen Rolland enjoyed her job working in education and student recruitment, but something was missing. The education, certificates, and professional development offered have completely taken my career to a new level. She felt a growing desire to make a greater impact in people’s lives.
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
When board members blur the lines between governance and management, they inadvertently sabotage the organization. Why board micromanagement makes nonprofit leaders furious Board members are supposed to focus on governance, strategy, and oversight. The fallout from this misalignment can be harmful.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Impact measurement, or impact measurement and management (IMM), is a new focus area in the nonprofit community. The Benefits of Impact Measurement & Management IMM benefits both your organization and the stakeholders who support your work. However, the principles behind it have been around forever.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In August 2024, the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked at the port of Freetown for a 10-month field service to provide surgical operations and educational training by invitation of the government of Sierra Leone. Photo courtesy of Jody Ray. Building a good relationship with our partners is key to success.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 20, 2025
Ensure that the organization is operating consistent with its governing documents , including with respect to provisions governing elections, terms of service, board meetings, board actions by written consent, delegated authority to committees and officers, reports, amendments to bylaws, and voting membership rights (if applicable).
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Board members are a vital resource for nonprofits: In addition to their responsibility for governance, they each bring unique perspectives and experiences to enrich the growth of nonprofit organizations and partnerships. She then received her graduate degree in higher education, student affairs, and international education policy.
Candid
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In an LEC, residents collectively own and govern their housingsuch as an apartment buildingbut there are restrictions in place to limit the resale price of their ownership interest (share) to a modest appreciation rate. Partnerships with state and local governments, foundations, and impact investors are essential to overcome this barrier.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Research consistently shows that Indigenous-managed lands have better climate outcomes than lands managed by other entities. Governments have returned ownership and management of millions of hectares of land in at least 39 countries. Far more will be needed to build community capacity to manage that land.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MAY 6, 2021
That work also requires a tremendous amount of communications and marketing support to educate people and to change hearts, minds, and behaviors, depending on the particular missions and issues of the nonprofit. Can you fundraise while also marketing programs and services or doing issue-oriented education or advocacy? Sure, sometimes.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Many factors contribute to BIPOC underrepresentation in climate-related STEM fields, including financial constraints, a lack of role models, systemic racism within educational institutions and the workforce, and limited exposure to STEM education. 32 The report notes that there are higher exposures to particulate matter (PM2.5)
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The Nonprofit Capacity Building Program was designed to support local Black and Latinx youth-serving organizations to provide more opportunities for children to succeed and ensure the organizations had strong management practices and measurable outcomes.
NonProfit Leadership Center
MARCH 20, 2023
Naturally, they are promoted into a management role. There’s just one problem, they’ve never managed others or received formal management or leadership training to prepare them for this new opportunity. In fact, it’s one of the most significant challenges new managers and nonprofit leaders tell us about.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The ultimate success of these young nonprofits—their ability to fulfill their missions—will depend on many things, but good governance is among the most important. Successfully experimenting with and evolving its governance structure over the last decade has been central to Jump’s success.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 7, 2023
Tina James Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 7, 2025
Other programs include open mics for youth, community calisthenics, and an Anti-Gentrification Task Force focused on tenant rights education and mutual aid. Despite his deep-seated distrust of city government, Weathers was excited about the potential benefit to the youth. Organizations dont help us. Individuals help us, says Weathers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 23, 2025
The stories we see in the media and in content shared, both online and off, influence how society perceives, interacts with, and ultimately governs an issue area. For instance, algorithmic management systems are already being used by some companies. By Alex Ash Narratives are an essential prerequisite to social change. Stories matter.
NonProfit Leadership Alliance
MAY 23, 2024
However, when managed wisely, overhead expenses, including capacity building, are vital investments that pave the way for a nonprofit’s growth and success. F actors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and transparency offer a more comprehensive view. What can I do?
Anedot
MARCH 6, 2025
Specifically, this role will manage the grants calendar, develop grant strategies, and research, write and prepare foundation and government grant applications and funder reports. Grant Research, Proposal Development and Grant Writing 3 or more years of grant writing, management, fundraising and/or relevant experience.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
I joined the staff back in 2014 to manage the production of the Facing Race conference. It’s broad in the sense that it brings racial justice practitioners, artists, movement makers, educators from all over the movement who are working at the intersections of race, class, education, the environment, reproductive health, and rights, et cetera.
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 3, 2023
The two-day event offers an exploration of diverse, compelling topics — from AI governance to deep learning and cloud computing, generative AI, change management, automation, and beyond. Fundraising.AI is hosting the inaugural virtual Fundraising.AI Global Summit from Oct.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
JANUARY 26, 2024
She serves as a key member of the executive leadership team, responsible for strategy development and deployment and directly oversees the Foundation’s grant making, strategic initiatives portfolio, and research and education activities. When I think of the heartbeat of our community, I immediately think of our nonprofit organizations.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Second, educate the staff and board. As one movement leader shared in our research, Our approach is not just about immediate results but building trust and educating financial actors over time. Yet fewer than 3 percent of those accounts even have the option to invest in companies that support a climate-safe future.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
OCTOBER 31, 2022
For nonprofit professionals who aspire to be a CEO or senior leadership team member, a graduate certificate in nonprofit management is a powerful step to make that goal a reality. The Nonprofit Leadership Center offers a graduate certificate in nonprofit management in collaboration with the University of Tampa. Certificate graduate.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 8, 2023
By Roger Low In 2023, what education and training do Americans need, beyond high school? At the same time, to salvage the American middle class, suck toxic resentment out of our politics, and build a more equitable economy, we must reimagine higher education, workforce training, and how taxpayers fund both.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
when she thinks about the Certificate in Nonprofit Management graduate program at the University of Tampa. She went to Uganda where she lived and worked with an NGO on strategic planning and board governance. Two mentors at the Nonprofit Leadership Center recommended the Certificate in Nonprofit Management,” Erin recalls. “I
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 25, 2019
Elizabeth Leslie is the Communications Manager for the League of Women Voters of California, a nonpartisan political organization that encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
As leaders at two organizations which have had the good fortune of receiving multiple big bets— Last Mile Health and Educate Girls —we feel a sense of responsibility to enter the fray. And at Educate Girls, big bets like the Audacious Project in 2019 enabled us to scale 3x and grow our impact 6x. That was our wishful thinking, too.
NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 6, 2024
This transformational 10-week program strengthens the board governance knowledge and skills of professionals of color while equipping nonprofit organizations to be genuinely ready to welcome these new members onto their boards. Taylor, Vice President, Gamma Zeta Lambda Educational Foundation of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. This [collective governance] framing inherently challenges the top-down board knows best assumption.
Selfish Giving
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Combine all of these events with the fact that a Pew Research Center study last year found that only 2 out of 10 Americans say they trust the government in Washington, and it offers natural questions from social impact professionals like us: Have the last 12 months really changed our perspective on what social causes matter the most?
Fundraising Leadership
MARCH 14, 2025
How that plays out for leaders, managers, and colleagues on different career trajectories, industries, and levels of progress on a management ladder varies widely. The Department of Government Efficiency actions have resulted in in more than 30,000 layoffs of federal employees, with more in the future across many different fields.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Many working parents, sandwiched between the needs of their children and parents, go into debt to provide for their care, which reduces their ability to fund the cost of continuing education or purchasing a home. The cooperative development is self-managed by residents, who focus on providing social programs to activate the community.
Candid
JANUARY 21, 2025
In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. For example, AI can help bridge educational gaps that were exacerbated during the pandemic. Build AI literacy. Foster collaboration.
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Fundraising Leadership
JANUARY 17, 2025
There is a skills scarcity, says Smith, whose more than three-decade career including leader Global Talent & Organization consulting at Accenture, after her role as Managing Principle of Deloitte Consulting, and developer of the Deloitte University Centers for Inclusion and Community Impact. Leaders in the U.S.
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The NonProfit Times
JUNE 13, 2024
Nonprofits face continual financial pressures around revenue streams, with 57% of financial managers saying they need somewhat or much more stable cash flow, and nearly 7 in 10 sharing that they need more revenue streams today than they did two years ago. Nonprofit employees spend, on average, 30% of their day managing data between systems.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 31, 2023
By Kartik Akileswaran , Jonathan Mazumdar & Angela Perez Albertos “When I was preparing to come to Delhi for a job, everyone in the village laughed and asked how it was possible that my village education would find me a job in a big city," recalled a 22-year-old Tabassum Naaz in 2010. Education is not the silver bullet.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
Developing a sound approach to managing these assets is part of the fiduciary responsibility of nonprofit boards. Liquidity policies help organizations understand the resources needed to carry out ongoing operating activities, but even liquid assets can be managed with an eye towards mission. But should they be?
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Teacher Certification and Education Law: Navigating State Requirements and Legal Obligations In the United States, teacher certification is not only a professional milestone but a legal requirement that ensures quality and consistency in education. Continuing Education : Certification is not a one-time event.
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