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How To Build An Advocacy-Driven Nonprofit Board

Bloomerang

Your board members are a link between your nonprofit and its stakeholders and constituents. How can you develop a board of advocates who connect with and champion your mission? It’s a critical way to connect policymakers with the ideas that move our country (and your nonprofit) forward.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Each of these systems develops unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most practitioners working in community development have accepted this as the reality of impact investing: The harder you drive for social impact in disadvantaged communities, the farther away you get from unbuffered full market return.

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Fundraising Coupling: Fiscal Sponsorship Under Section 501c4

The NonProfit Times

The sponsor may also provide support services to the project, including administrative support. The fiscal sponsorship arrangement reduces the administrative burden on the project, reduces the need to develop potentially unwanted infrastructure, and allows the project to focus on their mission.

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

The Volunteer Hub

“Volunteers are the life-blood of The Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. We wouldn’t able to achieve our goals without the commitment of our supporters,” said John Bode, Food Center & Volunteer Manager,” The Jacobs and Cushman San Diego Food Bank. said Melanie McKean, Development Director, Preble Street. “We

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Has your nonprofit identified an unaddressed need within your community? Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks.

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How the City of Boston Is Investing in the Future of Its Youth and Home

NonProfit Quarterly

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? 3 After Wu was elected mayor, in late 2021, Boston’s Green New Deal came to fruition under her administration.