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Foundations Governance Management 
Candid
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Recent developments around an Office of Management and Budget memorandum to freeze federal grants and loans has put the nonprofit sector in the spotlight. But just how many nonprofits receive government grants? And how big a role do government grants play in the nonprofit sector? Heres what we know.
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NonProfit PRO
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The Meyer Foundation announced that George L. will serve as the Foundation's next president and CEO, effective April 1. Dr. Askew brings decades of experience as a former pediatrician and leader in federal policy, local government agencies, and nonprofit management spaces. Askew, M.D.
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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!
Affnetz
APRIL 16, 2024
Corporate Sponsorships for Nonprofits | A Guide to Grow Nonprofits/ By Bala Guntipalli Introduction to Nonprofit Board Management Software: Technology has become an integral part of our lives, changing the way we do business and manage organizations. Making board management easier will only benefit a nonprofit in the long term.
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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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Ann Green
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Effective financial management is critical for your nonprofit to grow and thrive long-term. One important but sometimes overlooked step in future planning is ensuring proper nonprofit financial management. After all, to build up your organization, you first need a solid foundation! Chief financial officer (CFO).
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).
NonProfit Leadership Center
DECEMBER 6, 2024
This increase is part of the revised Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Guidance, which recognizes the importance of adequately covering nonprofits’ operational needs to sustain impactful services and programs. Historically set at 10%, this rate has recently increased to 15% as of October 1, 2024.
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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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 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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
By Sheringham Odhiambo , Madeleine Ballard , Ben Pyne & Kathryn Harrison Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for residents of Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In 1951, the groups came together to create the United Housing Foundation. 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. ROC USA helped the BJH Co-op secure $5.25
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. After college, she began a job as a Dean of Scholar Support at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Research consistently shows that Indigenous-managed lands have better climate outcomes than lands managed by other entities. CLUA (a group of six foundations with aligned funding goals) also provides essential expertise that has been instructive both for us at Skoll as well as the entire funding community.
Candid
OCTOBER 21, 2024
The need to center performance over prestige According to Altrata’s Ultra High Net Worth Philanthropy 2024 report, “[a]lmost 20% of UHNW individuals have a private foundation. Experienced health-focused nonprofits can shift strategies to attract those megadonors, their dollars, and their influence.
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Bloomerang
JANUARY 30, 2025
Nonprofits are no strangers to uncertaintywhether from economic downturns, environmental disasters, shifting donor priorities, or changes in government policy. A well-thought-out plan to diversify your revenue streams puts you in the drivers seat, helping your organization manage challenges with confidence.
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 Marketing Guide
JANUARY 21, 2020
I was recently contacted by Julianne Buck, executive director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County about the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts I send. Guest Post by Julianne Buck of the Community Foundation of Grundy County. I run a community foundation and it’s difficult to briefly explain what we do. Julianne Buck.
NonProfit Leadership Center
JANUARY 26, 2024
Brody is the chief strategy officer for the Foundation for a Healthy St. 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. Brody, Esq., Brody, Esq.
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.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
As one example, in early 2023, Brian Impact Foundation , which focuses on big-bet philanthropy , donated a total of 12.6 The foundation has also started a capacity-development program for nonprofits in collaboration with Root Impact , an intermediate support organization. billion won (about $9.7
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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 Marketing Guide
MAY 6, 2021
That could be institutional grants (like foundation funding) and contracts (from government agencies). So what’s really going on with these posts claiming that all nonprofit comms should be controlled by fundraising and fundraisers when there are so very clearly many, many more things that nonprofit communicators must manage?
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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. All successfully weathered the pandemic and have grown in the intervening years.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 15, 2025
billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. To date, 69 fund managers from 38 organizations have participated in one of the first four cohorts, resulting in 18 funds (or pilots of funds) being launched nationwide (9). As one firm states , investors do not have to choose between doing goodi.e.
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 Marketing Guide
MARCH 1, 2022
Libni Sanjurjo, Fundación Comunitaria de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico Community Foundation). Shortly after, in January 2003, I began to work full-time as a reporter at Agencia EFE, where I covered the three branches of government, especially the Legislature, until 2006. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Share That Data: Interoperable Datasets Spark Innovation Collecting and managing the large datasets underpinning AI is expensive. By enabling users to skip the hard work of collecting, cleaning, and labeling the data, they can instead devote their limited resources to putting this data to work for managing their health systems.
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. To get there, however, requires an understanding of how boards came to be. Where Did Boards Come From?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. The Second Principal: An Economic Mechanism Unlike conservative antipathy to centralized government, mutualists see that government has a role in building the next eras mutualist sector.
Selfish Giving
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
First, I've talked with some of you about the government's hold on grants and funding. Something helpful from master copywriter Tom Ahern: A ranked list of the top ten fundraising writing best practices , ordered from foundational to most critical, with explanations and expert citations. Three things this week.
Blue Avocado
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Each board member may bring a specific skill or may be a generalist, but in the aggregate, the board provides a full set of business skills to ensure that the executive director is employing best practices — whether it’s finance, budgeting, strategic planning, change management, or succession planning. Everything else can be taught.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 6, 2024
Melissa Morin Director, University of South Florida Foundation Melissa Morin, director at the University of South Florida Foundation, is one of 23 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2024 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship. ” Harold Bryant Jr.,
Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Harriett Davis from the Chicago Public Library Foundation Tell the Story of Your Mission Not Just What Your Mission is I have found that, as grant applications have gone online and gotten shorter, my strategy has become ever more important: Concise, clean, and emotive storytelling works better than stats and history.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Time differences become less problematic, especially when urgent matters arise, and it often eases collaboration with local governments due to in-person contact and contextual familiarity. Segal Family Foundation, a trust-based funder focused on social justice in Africa, has approached leadership this way for more than a decade.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
JULY 2, 2024
Reviewal of Values, Mission, and Beliefs Core values, mission, and beliefs serve as the foundation of every nonprofit organization. From project management to stakeholder engagement, you’ll learn how to turn vision into action. Whether it’s donor support, grants, or earned income, understanding the financial landscape is key.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 5, 2024
The multiracial, multiethnic group of about 50 people—including heads of family foundations, institutional philanthropy, funder collaboratives and intermediaries, donor organizers, and advisors to wealthy donors—nodded and snapped in support. We disagree. After all, there is no reason to push back so hard against a losing team.
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Blue Avocado
DECEMBER 17, 2024
A Cautionary Tale: Overcoming Governance Nightmares in Nonprofit Organizations No one enjoys it when a nonprofits board doesnt work well together. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are not just words; they are the foundations of who we are, and they are steps we must continue to take.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
OCTOBER 12, 2022
According to the Giving USA 2022 Report , giving by foundations to nonprofit organizations grew by 3.4% Foundation grants now represent 19% of total giving to nonprofits – the largest share on record. Candid offers a searchable database of foundations and grants, grants for individuals, and Requests for Proposals published by funders.
The Charity CFO
DECEMBER 30, 2024
With over three decades of experience in human services and nonprofit management, Miller shared valuable insights on how organizations can attract and retain top talent while fostering meaningful partnerships. Look beyond government funding and explore community support. You can find him on LinkedIn here: [link] Gregory T.
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The Charity CFO
MARCH 13, 2025
With government funding and donor contributions facing heightened scrutiny, nonprofit leaders must ensure their financial systems are rock solid. Government regulations are tightening, and donors are demanding more accountability. This ensures accountability and makes audits or donor inquiries easier to manage.
Blue Avocado
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
We will research and target high-priority foundation s and government funding sources while strengthening our relationships with our current funders. We plan to improve board communications through an online document management program. Christy Crosser from Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
8 These technologies enable researchers to monitor inaccessible areas in near real-time, providing comprehensive data that are critical for effective disaster management and mitigating climate change. It provides a comprehensive platform for capturing, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data from diverse sources.
Affnetz
JULY 10, 2023
Short answer – philanthropy from individuals, foundation grants, government grants, events, earned revenue, membership dues, social entrepreneurship, investments (endowments), and probably a few more things! Sometimes (thankfully) foundation provide general operating support, other times it’s restricted support for a specific project.
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