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A Checklist To Determine If Your Organization Is “Grant Ready”

Bloomerang

Do you have strong leadership and an active and supportive board? If your organization doesn’t have the leadership in place to successfully operate in a given year, it will be difficult to apply for grant funding. Do you have an accounting system capable of tracking grant funds separately from other organizational funds?

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

Bloomerang

Fund development is, first, organizational development…. It’s a big job, serving as a development officer. Bigger than far too many development officers (or their bosses and boards) think. You — and the entire social benefit sector — need organizational-development-grounded philanthropic facilitators.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

Simply put, the board failed to keep up with a growing organization and provide it with the leadership and vision it needed. For years, the board had ignored the fact that the organization’s finances were hemorrhaging. As CEO, I practiced servant leadership, which enabled me to build an empowered management team.

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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, despite this consensus, the Rainforest Foundation Norway showed, in 2021 , that efforts to recognize Indigenous land rights and support their forest conservation were getting less than 1 percent of all climate financing, with the vast majority of funding going to international organizations or development contractors.

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Pitch Perfect: Take The Lead’s Entrepreneur Winners Share Success

Fundraising Leadership

Her winning pitch impressed the judges including Vidhi Data, founder of Lead with Impact, and the Take The Lead Leadership Ambassador spearheading the launch of Take The Lead’s Premium Coaching. “ We do this through innovation, and organizational development.” ” Read more in Take The Lead about Vidhi Data here.

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Living into a Childhood Commitment: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Kaytura Felix

NonProfit Quarterly

The financing needs to be reimagined, the delivery of care needs to be reimagined, the way care is evaluated needs to be reimagined— every part of the system. CS: You also talk about the power of leadership—and I know that when you went to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, your aim was to combine this work with leadership.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. The Executive Director is responsible for MNA, its talented staff, and the resources entrusted to the organization.