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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
APRIL 28, 2024
As a nonprofit professional, you understand that investing in your staff is the best way to develop your organization. While some skills are innate, many nonprofit management skills can be taught. By investing your time and energy into gaining the necessary skills, you can set yourself up for success in your field.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
One tool that is available to nonprofit housing developers to address this situation is the limited equity cooperative (LEC). This mechanism permits the seller to collect a modest increase in value while ensuring affordability to future buyers. By contrast, in market-rate co-ops, the sale price is uncapped.
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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!
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Image Credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on iStock Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their mission.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Image Credit: Karl Solano on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their missions. But this doesnt have to be the norm.
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. Everything else can be taught.
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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
DECEMBER 23, 2024
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. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools.
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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
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Image Credit: Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their mission.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JULY 16, 2021
They purchase from companies that align with their values. . B2B companies are starting to understand the value of corporate social responsibility. That will build trust with the clients sharing the same values and inspire them to choose you over your competitors. They teamed with Energy Star, a program run by the U.S.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
To transform the financial landscape, we must position our traditions and values front and center. As part of this movement, Black- and Indigenous-led organizations have been building innovative solutions rooted in our ancestral cultural values to provide equitable and nonextractive financing to farmers, land stewards, and entrepreneurs.
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The Charity CFO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Nonprofits exist to meet a societal need or provide a public benefit. Unlike an organization whose primary goal is to make money, nonprofits exist to meet a community’s needs. That said, while it’s not your primary purpose, your nonprofit must find ways to make money. . How do nonprofits make money?
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 25, 2023
Image Credit: Askar Abayev on pexels.com Leaders in the social sector hear it all the time: nonprofits should run like a business. The distinct purposes of businesses and nonprofits require unique approaches. Of course, nonprofits are businesses. The distinct purposes of businesses and nonprofits require unique approaches.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Why Energy-Efficient Renovations Are Good Investments In an age where sustainability is not just a trend but a necessity, energy-efficient renovations have emerged as a cornerstone in modern property development and ownership.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
From equitable policies and low-carbon infrastructure to values like collaboration and fairness, we need deep shifts, and we need them soon. Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. Yet, in a 2021 survey , WHO found that only 1 in 5 countries bring health considerations into climate and energy policy.
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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.
Nonprofit Fixer
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Keep the plates spinning Have you ever thought about starting and running a nonprofit? Are you considering applying for or accepting a role as a nonprofit executive director (ED) or CEO? If you have ever been curious about nonprofit leadership, you probably have wondered what a nonprofit executive or CEO does.
The Kindful Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2023
If the problem you are trying to solve or the need you are addressing isn’t a quick fix but instead long range, ongoing and/or escalating, you might consider forming your own nonprofit. In this post, we’ll review frequently asked questions about starting a nonprofit and nine key steps to get your own organization up and running.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 14, 2024
Image: “Death Caught From A Plane Window” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” And even if there isn’t, why do you think that nonprofits have been so ineffective at preventing the growth of inequality?
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 9, 2024
To find out, NPQ interviewed Malik Kenyatta Yakini, cofounder of the Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network (DBCFSN); Lanay Gilbert-Williams, current co-op board president; and Akil Talley, the co-op’s first full-time permanent general manager. We did a lot of community engagement sessions.” Raising money was another challenge.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 7, 2023
But some needed elements are clear: these include expertise; values-aligned capacity-building partners; relationships that are built on trust, accountability, and transparency; and flexible funding. There are also opportunities to advance equity and establish more community-responsive co-governance in the process.
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Bloomerang
JANUARY 22, 2024
You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 10, 2023
By Joan Garry The nonprofit sector is deeply in debt to individuals who identify a needs gap in their communities and are propelled to launch a formal effort to address that need by founding a 501(c)(3). In that context, it is ironic that we often brand nonprofit founders, Hester Prynne-like, with a chronic illness we call founder syndrome.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 18, 2024
In a Washington Post interview , Raj Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, explains how he and his team scaled a proven renewable energy program, in part by raising money from the Bezos Earth Fund and the IKEA foundation. Funding the last mile. One is that it may divert funding away from other important areas. Consider alternatives.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 28, 2023
Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. These successes, in turn, help pave the way for Congress to recognize the value of worker co-ops and ESOP business models and create the support needed to boost those efforts.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Special attention was placed on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund , a $27 billion clean-energy loan fund created by last year’s Inflation Reduction Act. [Today] CDFI assets total $457.9 One was the rise of nonprofits within the CDFI sector. An overwhelming majority of CDFIs today, however, are nonprofits. That’s true.
Bloomerang
MAY 15, 2024
Few things are more critical to your nonprofit’s success than your board of directors. A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. Conversely, a toxic, dysfunctional, or low-performing board can destroy your nonprofit.
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? Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.” That same year, it became an independent entity, but it was discontinued in 2016.
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. Below I’ll talk about engaged boards and how you can build one. .
NonProfit Hub
MAY 27, 2021
Needing money is a common denominator among all nonprofits. When someone receives a benefit for their “gift” to a nonprofit organization, the IRS determines that their support is not tax-deductible. Sponsorship is usually tied to an event or program that has production value and requires a significant investment of time and energy.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
JANUARY 13, 2023
That’s why Momentum Nonprofit Partners launched our consultant directory in 2017 and have linked hundreds of nonprofits to qualified consultants in Memphis and across the country. Tell us about your previous experience working in the nonprofit sector. For those organizations, managing with limited resources.
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.
iMarketSmart
JUNE 22, 2020
Nonprofits don’t only compete with other nonprofits. Private sector companies and the government have deeper pockets. More than 99% of every donors’ time and energy spent involving themselves with your organization’s mission is done without you. Competition is fierce and everywhere. You are at a disadvantage.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
AUGUST 14, 2023
A regional backbone organization— Wild Rivers Community Foundation , an affiliate of Humboldt Area Foundation—was tapped to manage the initiative in partnership with community leaders and TCE program officers and staff. Five years in, the energy of community engagement and the momentum of a few early wins had dwindled.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
In facilitating the development of systems change plans for a variety of nonprofits, I’ve found that principles associated with social justice offer a unifying framework to help staff and boards understand not only the end goal of systems change, but also the root causes of social problems and what strategies will solve them.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 17, 2024
Clearlake made a $71 per share bid for Charleston, South Carolina-based Blackbaud in late March — a deal that would have been valued at more than $4 billion. As The NonProfit Times reported this past April, financial services firm Baird indicated a per-share price in excess of $90 would not be unreasonable for Blackbaud.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
MARCH 29, 2021
5 Ways to Drive Operational Efficiency in Your Nonprofit Organization. Many Nonprofit Organizations run on a tight budget. More than any other type of business, a nonprofit organization cannot afford to be inefficient in its processes, projects, or the way its staff operates. Boost staff management with dedicated software.
NonProfit Hub
APRIL 18, 2024
Needing money is a common denominator among all nonprofits. With the rise of social impact as a business metric, companies are more eager than ever to contribute to meaningful causes, yet many nonprofits don’t make the most of this fundraising avenue. A dependence on corporate interests may influence nonprofit agendas.
Nonprofit Megaphone
APRIL 7, 2023
Nonprofit organizations, with their focus on social causes and community welfare, play a crucial role in shaping society. The board of directors is responsible for the overall direction and governance of the organization, and their decisions can make or break the nonprofit’s mission.
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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Nonprofit Fixer
JANUARY 24, 2023
The Complete Guide to Implementing the Four-Day Workweek If you want to create the kind of workplace no one wants to leave, while still pushing for excellence and work-life balance, consider this long overdue, and much-misunderstood management tool. As a manager, I kept reading about how the pandemic caused burnout and stress.
Fundraising Leadership
APRIL 14, 2023
At their recent Catalyst Awards 2023, the global nonprofit founded in 1962 to “accelerate and advance women into leadership” applauded an exceptional roster of those at the helms of “forward-thinking organizations that are developing new and innovative ways to advance gender equity and strengthen their organizations.” asks Bible. “We
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 26, 2023
“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” 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.” Imagine this. Flint, MI, has clean water and kids aren’t poisoned by lead. Our campaigns are centered around racial economic justice.
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