NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In 2021, San Francisco launched a six-month pilot program, called Miracle Money , which distributed $500 a month to 15 people experiencing homelessness in the city. These components can be employed through a nonprofit organization or city government. Collecting data points about the program’s impact will support this goal.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

Children 105

Children Nonprofits Environmental Agriculture 105

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Are you a “small” nonprofit just getting started with fundraising? As of 2021, nearly one million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. dollars in revenue, approximately 70 percent of all nonprofits registered in the United States. These nonprofits are supported mainly by voluntary public contributions. You can too!

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In facilitating the development of systems change plans for a variety of nonprofits, I’ve found that principles associated with social justice offer a unifying framework to help staff and boards understand not only the end goal of systems change, but also the root causes of social problems and what strategies will solve them.

Public and Social Policy 122

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 122

Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

Few things are more critical to your nonprofit’s success than your board of directors. A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. Conversely, a toxic, dysfunctional, or low-performing board can destroy your nonprofit.

Participation and motivation 105

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

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.

Marketing 122

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

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? 39 The program also helped Burrell strengthen his communication, project management, and team leadership skills. It can’t be siloed.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 114

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 114

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Besides doing these webinars, we’re a donor management software provider. And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry.

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 126

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

Homelessness 122

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 122

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 6, 2023

Edmondson & Anahide Nahhal In 2019, Joyce Craig, the newly elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, was grappling with two major crises : The city was reporting an opioid-related death every few days, and chronic homelessness was rising. An acceptable entry point has enough support from the team and others to move forward.

Collaborations 111

Collaborations Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 121

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This spring, they applied their training during their first public event since the shooting—a farm blessing—collaborating with local organizations on security measures. Participants came from diverse organizations, including homeless shelters and a queer youth summer camp.

Nonprofit governance and management 139

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Homelessness Law 139

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

Nonprofit governance and management 144

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 144

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Avoid them!). Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits 126

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When your nonprofit is just getting started, any nonprofit donation is a welcome donation, right? Are there times that you could actually do your nonprofit harm by taking a non-cash donation? Most of the time, these more complicated donations are fine to accept, they just take a little more work to manage.

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Homelessness 119

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 million to management and technical assistance, $76.7 million to management and technical assistance, $76.7 billion across three years—from 2015 to 2017. million.

Environmental 98

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: “Through the Fire” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” And those machines are being sold to city governments for millions of dollars, even though their accuracy rate is less than 10 percent.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 119

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

By Karl Haushalter & Paul Steinberg A local public health official has been tasked with increasing vaccine use in an underserved community. In each of these scenarios, promoting public well-being requires reaching out across social boundaries. Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines.

Collaborations 132

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 132

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. The research finds that housing affects health through three pathways: housing stability, housing affordability, and access to a health-promoting neighborhood.

Health 105

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

KA: How does elite capture function in industries that aren’t organized directly around profit—specifically, the civil sector of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, social services, etc.? That means I am astronomically more likely to, say, be invited to interview with Nonprofit Quarterly.

Construction 111

Construction Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I was in conversation with the managers of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). And now we’re in season two with our production partners, Wisconsin Public Radio. And it attracted the attention of an organization that has partnered with EHRP before and that is Wisconsin Public Radio. They are homeless.

Health 111

Health Insurance Production Homelessness 111

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, I would invite you to check us out because we are a provider of donor-management software, that’s what Bloomerang is. And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization.

Children 110

Children Curriculum and Teaching Education Education 110

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot. It turns out, quite a lot.

Nonprofit governance and management 128

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance Finance 128

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. As such, it involves dealing with the tensions between homeowners and tenants , the influence of money in politics and housing, and the public resistance to higher taxes and fees.

Public and Social Policy 131

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Governance 131

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Image credit: Seattle City Council on Wikimedia Commons Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis. It means treating housing as a public good and a basic human need, rather than as a speculative commodity.

Public and Social Policy 130

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofit Administration and Development 130

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society 142

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Law 142

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Social Enterprise 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.

Public and Social Policy 119

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 119

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For instance, in the chapter on education (Chapter 11), Lindsey Burke, who directs Heritage’s Center for Education Policy, writes that the “The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which prioritizes government and public sector work over private sector employment, should be terminated” (354).

Public and Social Policy 115

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 115