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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Image credit: Steve Dubb Food is the cover story. Malik Kenyatta Yakini, Up & Coming Food Co-op C onference panel September 15, 2023 There is a wave of food co-ops opening in majority-Black communities, as NPQ has covered. But organizing a food co-op is not easy. The first step was starting a monthly food-buying club.
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Blue Avocado
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with.
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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them
The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis
What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Blue Avocado exists to help nonprofits succeed , and our community of nonprofit experts, leaders, and trailblazers continues to share their wisdom, strengthening us all. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year. Why not ripe?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
By Sara Horowitz You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first timewhether its a worker cooperative in North Carolina , a community garden , a labor-housing cooperative , a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon , or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
The shade provided to the crops reduces water evaporation and temperature stress, leading to increased crop yields and better water management. Local Food Production Combining solar energy with agriculture allows local food production, reducing transportation emissions from importing produce.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
The rapid decline of Black and Indigenous land stewardship has devastated our capacity to grow and harvest our own food, which has contributed to a lack of access to healthy, affordable, culturally significant foods, and other negative health disparities (including mental, emotional, and spiritual health).
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Get Fully Funded
MAY 24, 2022
To fully fund your nonprofit, you need a diversified fundraising stream. In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. Getting your funds from multiple sources is especially important when fundraising for a new nonprofit.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 25, 2022
Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
She also lives in a food desert, which makes getting nutritious and affordable food difficult. The nearest fresh food grocer is three miles away, across the 101 freeway. She can afford one big shopping trip in the month and at the end of the month she visits the local food pantry to subsidize until she gets her next paycheck.
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Bloomerang
MAY 21, 2021
But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang besides our webinars, Bloomerang is a provider of donor management software. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program.
Getting Attention
JULY 14, 2015
Post YOUR comms job here —nonprofits, grantmakers, B Corps & vendors serving nonprofits. Communications Manager for Reproductive Rights ACLU (New York, NY). Communications & Outreach Specialist California YMCA Youth & Government (Sacramento, CA). Nonprofit Marketing & Communications Jobs—June 22, 2015.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 24, 2023
However, eight months after Lumumba was elected, he died of heart failure, and the anticipated alliance with the city government did not materialize. But, even so, the city government and the social movement represented by Cooperation Jackson and its allies have not always seen eye to eye. Workers, in short, are exhausted.
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Bloomerang
OCTOBER 7, 2021
How to build an engaged nonprofit board . Nor do they have the time or energy to find, meet, and cultivate everyone in the community who shares a passion for the organization’s mission. The orientation is the critical next step in nonprofit board engagement. Secure food. Don’t have a budget for food? No worries.
Nonprofit Megaphone
OCTOBER 31, 2022
This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.
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Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Worse yet, the facilitator is boring, the content is useless, board members are texting, and the food is stale! Find an inspiring venue If you operate a hunger relief organization, hosting a retreat where you serve food could provide inspiring reminders of why everyone is passionate about the mission.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
From vast riparian watersheds to fisheries to croplands, few corners of the nation’s ⎯ and the world’s ⎯ food systems have escaped the eyes of the Walton family. Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 4, 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? 39 The program also helped Burrell strengthen his communication, project management, and team leadership skills.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 27, 2012
The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The False Binary Between For-profits and Nonprofits: Where the Troubles Begin. Our reasoning was straightforward: We didn’t want to be seen as competing for funding with the nonprofits using our software. Some governments are paving the way in terms of accountability and procurement.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 31, 2023
Clearly, BECMA has benefitted from both the energy unleashed by the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. ” Obi, who had not worked in the nonprofit sector before coming to BECMA, says that her business experience helped her manage the rapid growth. I’m new to the nonprofit space.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 14, 2023
For millennia, oceans, rivers, and forests provided an abundance of food and other resources for the residents of this area, until the late 1800s, when white settlers arrived and began to extract gold and timber. Five years in, the energy of community engagement and the momentum of a few early wins had dwindled.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 17, 2024
“[T]he Blackbaud Board has unanimously concluded that Clearlake’s indication of interest significantly undervalues the company,” Blackbaud’s board members wrote in an email to Behdad Eghbali, co-founder and managing partner of Clearlake Capital Group regarding the most recent offer. That transaction was valued at $4.4 billion, including debt.
The Charity CFO
DECEMBER 22, 2021
Ever wondered why so many nonprofits are stuck in their financial struggles that they end up failing their communities? Want to make sure your nonprofit doesn’t suffer the same fate? She helps nonprofits get financially established so they can achieve their goals. And why nonprofits need to learn to put themselves first. (2:47).
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Top Nonprofits
JULY 24, 2023
According to the OneCause guide to school auctions , these high-energy events are perfect for schools because they are: Highly engaging and flexible for all audiences. With mobile bidding, your nonprofit can easily keep track of incoming bids and your attendees can join in on the auction fundraising process right from their phones.
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Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, I would invite you to check us out because we are a provider of donor-management software, that’s what Bloomerang is. And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization.
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Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
We are a provider of donor management software. That helps nonprofits kind of simplify all of their operations and kind of bring their teams together. . And like I said, she’s all over the place doing webinars, doing podcasts, speaking at events, and has co-founded nonprofits. That’s who Bloomerang is. .
Blue Avocado
APRIL 23, 2024
As a passionate and committed leader in the nonprofit sector, I firmly believe in the power of community organizations to drive positive, equitable change. The crux of this article is simple: Nonprofits must advance their mission by valuing their employees’ worth through fair compensation and benefits and by celebrating their worth.
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Bloomerang
JULY 31, 2021
But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 12, 2024
Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. I was accepted and enrolled in a program, at the (now defunct) School for International Training, titled Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 17, 2023
Investing in forests, their managing agencies, and communities that care for and depend on them is vital to handling climate change and its attendant health and economic crises. After decades of neglect, federal and state governments are making substantial investments to combat the wildfire crisis.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 15, 2023
And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. A lot of nonprofits put on do-it-yourself, taped together programs that have this orientation of a dystopian social safety net. A lot of nonprofits fall into that category. It’s almost like a riddle.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 10, 2023
Foundations manage risk by awarding money to well-known organizations with good track records, and in turn, environmental organizations ensure stable revenue by building large funding relationships with many foundations, keeping their money spigot flowing. million to management and technical assistance, $76.7 million.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 20, 2023
Leaders moving work through nonprofit organizations are also contending with the “great resignation” and major shifts in the workforce; 3 unprocessed grief from the pandemic and years of escalating racial violence; and short-lived performative responses by philanthropy to the events of 2020.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
By Nessa Richman What will it take to create systems change in our food system? Because of food’s centrality to how we all live—a centrality which produces complex relationships and interconnections across multiple scales—our food system is difficult to transform. Talking about “systems” can be very abstract.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? You would have named things like finding quicker paths to clean energy, finding ways to make crops more resilient to climate stress.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 7, 2023
Organizers in many US communities have begun to weave together co-ops, land trusts, credit unions, participatory budgeting, energy democracy, and other community-controlled economic solutions to ensure everyday people can live stable, dignified, and self-determined lives beyond the grips of extractive capitalism.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 22, 2024
Back in the San Francisco Bay Area where I’m usually based, I work with the Sustainable Economies Law Center to support projects that redistribute wealth, democratize governance, and steward communal resources. Another major change recognized and created frameworks for self-governance, focused on the department (state) and local levels.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
This isolation severely limits access to health care, education, nutritious and plentiful food, and economic opportunity. She arrived tired with less energy for her studies, and her grades and attendance suffered. She’d spend over two hours each way, every day, across hilly terrain to attend school.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In the nonprofit sector, it requires transcending the standard hierarchical funder-nonprofit dynamics and replacing them with norms of power sharing and reciprocity. Unlike many funding opportunities, qualifying projects did not need to have nonprofit tax status or be fiscally sponsored by a nonprofit.
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
AUGUST 9, 2023
The Center for Biological Diversity: Learning the Limits of Reform Strategies The Center for Biological Diversity is a national nonprofit conservation organization that believes that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature and to a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. 3 Below, we share each of our organizational stories.
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NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 10, 2024
In so doing, they draw on histories and energies that have grown and percolated from past and present efforts toward sustainable, people-based planning. Samad felt what the community needed most was a new market that supports food workers and food businesses at a neighborhood scale.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 4, 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? Two things changed how wealth was managed. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” 2 It has been edited for publication here.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 24, 2024
“Climate justice” and “just transition” were once fringe ideas but are now regularly used terms (whether used correctly or not) in spaces ranging from the United Nations and international policy convenings to the US federal government —and unfortunately, even fossil fuel companies —as they try to avoid their responsibility for the climate crisis.
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