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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

There is much misinformation suggesting otherwise, but there are ways to mitigate threats where programs designed to advance the rights of particular racial or ethnic groups involve contractual language.

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Creating a Nonprofit Style Guide: Templates and Examples

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Fundraising or fund-raising? Your editorial style guide should contain a word list that shows how you will use, format, and spell certain words. When do you spell out numbers? Under 10 or 100? Do you hyphenate certain words or not? Is it email or e-mail? Decision-maker or decisionmaker? How do staff’s proper names appear in print?

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Diaspora Philanthropy 3.0

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In America, Indian Americans are now recognized as the wealthiest ethnic group in the country with growing political influence. Decades of focusing on cultivating businessmen (and a few women) in their 50s, 60s, and 70s has shaped fundraising practices to a large degree.

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Newsletter: Top Social Impact & Partnership Trends of 2022 ; Company to Staff: Get a booster, We'll Give Food Bank $100 ; How Your Nonprofit Can Use QR Codes

Selfish Giving

Before Thanksgiving I wrote that nonprofits should be targeting local theater productions of A Christmas Carol as they frequently include a fundraiser for local organizations. A guide to asking your supporters to identify their race , ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. Action-triggered cause marketing for the win! ??

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Fundraising Ethics In Higher Education

Bloomerang

But you can make an especially robust case that this is indeed the case in fundraising. What does it take to be successful in fundraising? Fundraising is a profession directed at nurturing friendships that culminate in gifts of time, talent, and treasure. I love the expression that fundraising occurs at the speed of trust.

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The Perils of Black Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

from Pixabay Race plays an outsized role in how people experience leadership, with White leaders widely considered to be the norm. 1] In spite of the salience of race in the experience of leadership, there is not much study of the Black leadership experience. Image Credit: Van3ssa ? A somewhat different perspective.is

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Is Your Nonprofit Going The Way Of The GOP?

The Agitator

Have we so ignored the ethnic dimensions of fundraising that we are damaging our own future? It should come as no shock that in today’s direct response fundraising “Caucasians” are currently and overwhelmingly the target audience. Here’s what they told me: Race/ethnicity is not causal or even correlated with high Commitment.