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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. About 20 percent are seated within government. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership.

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Newsletter: Your Nonprofit Needs an Audience ; Wash-for-a-Cure Aims to Raise $100,000 ; Can You Use a DAF to Pay for an Event Ticket?

Selfish Giving

About the same time last week I was speaking at the New Strategies Program at Georgetown University about audience-centric fundraising , Mark Hrywna at The Nonprofit Times was preparing to release an article that highlights just how much nonprofits need to focus on audience-building and raising more money from individuals.

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Unlocking the Potential of Open 990 Data

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The social sector is using big data to enhance nonprofit transparency and knowledge more than ever before, and the opening of the Form 990 has made an essential contribution. Making more robust use of open 990 data requires that nonprofits, foundations, researchers, and the IRS and federal government alike commit to sustained action.

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What Would a Social Justice Investment Ecosystem Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

In his report, Jahi aims to sets forth a clear definition of what a social justice investment ecosystem could look like and challenges nonprofits and philanthropy to shift their investment strategy. As US SIF puts it , “the US SIF Foundation decided to modify its methodology for the 2022 report. trillion of the then-$51.4

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

There’s nothing more exciting than making the decision to start a nonprofit! But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Seriously, about half of all new nonprofits don’t make it through the first year or so. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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Detroit People’s Food Co-op: How to Advance Black Food Sovereignty

NonProfit Quarterly

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. And they also had a community room for community meetings within the co-op.

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Impact Investing Can’t Deliver by Chasing Market Returns

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Because the impact from these for-profit investments is exactly the same as the impact from our nonprofit grants: More than half of the organizations are directly impacting more than 10,000 lives, more than 40 percent are impacting 50,000 lives, a quarter are impacting 500,000 lives and more than a fifth, millions of lives.

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