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Governance Law Marketing 
Candid
OCTOBER 31, 2024
A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions: What’s the difference between an advisory board and a governing board? Can the executive director serve on the board?
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Boards must contend with a variety of factors, from applicable state and federal laws to the nonprofit’s financial constraints to competitive pay practices to organizational values and the salaries of the rest of its staff. There’s also literally a law within the Internal Revenue Code that prohibits it.
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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!
A New Look At Grant Management: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter
Selfish Giving
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
requested guidance on in the Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey you completed last spring. Corporate Partnerships & The Law: Contracts 1. We are entering into a cause marketing promotion in which our charity will receive a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each Sellco widget. Return Benefits.
147 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!
A New Look At Grant Management: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 3, 2025
The capital markets that can invest in social enterprise are chaotic and low-impact. The left has often undercut a notion of a mutualist future by insisting that every problem needs a large centralized government solution. The right only promotes competitive market solutions to solve for human needs.
Selfish Giving
DECEMBER 4, 2019
requested guidance on in the Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey you completed last spring. Our company is conducting its first ever cause marketing campaign. Law § 171-a(6). This is the second-part of a four-part series on the four key legal issues you - my readers! Company FAQ’s 1. New York Exec.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
In the first half of the 20th century, the crisis of rural electrification ended when the government enabled neighbors to access loans for building their own electric co-ops. A small change to employment law in 1974 enabled over 10 million workers to share in the profits of their employers. Another way is still possible.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Policies such as redlining , as highlighted in Richard Rothsteins The Color of Law , created entrenched housing inequities. They were initially marketed to wealthier urbanites, who wanted the advantages of individual homeownership without all the responsibilities it entailed. Second, education for LEC members is crucial.
NonProfit Leadership Center
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office.
Selfish Giving
JUNE 21, 2020
requested guidance on in the Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey you completed last year. 1] In the context of corporate partnerships, the most significant potential source of UBIT is an arrangement or expectation that the charity will provide advertising or marketing services in exchange for all or part of the payment.
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The NonProfit Times
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters. Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate first-ever standards to govern disposal of coal ash and limit the wastewater discharge of toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants. Cook, Ph.D.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 19, 2025
Members of a housing cooperative have joint control over the governance of common areas like green spaces and playgrounds, and in the US, owners of a share in a co-op are entitled to the same tax deductions as homeowners. In fact, most co-op housing units are sold at the market rate. Buying housing as a group presents many advantages.
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Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JULY 16, 2015
NOTE: Mind the rules, the laws governing giveaways and the promotional guidelines for each social network. Even though only a few people submit videos or photos, many more lurk and observe, and perhaps even share. And you get free content that you can use for other communications. Honor someone. Support a cause with an unselfie.
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Selfish Giving
MAY 10, 2016
Purchase-triggered donations (or percentage of sales fundraisers) is a long name for a simple cause marketing promotion. After a charity pinup program , purchase-triggered donations are one of the more lucrative cause marketing fundraisers. But when in doubt, contact an attorney that specializes in cause marketing law.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 7, 2023
Last year's 2022 fellows reported a 52% increase in their board governance knowledge and skills after completing the program. This program is an opportunity to immerse myself in comprehensive board governance training, allowing me to be more impactful while doing so in a nonprofit board setting.”
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JULY 29, 2024
For small-scale farmers in emerging markets like India, Kenya, and Nigeria, agricultural extension agents are crucial lifelines. They provide Climate-Smart Agriculture practices, deliver market and pricing information for farmers to maximize income, and help farmers connect with local suppliers.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 18, 2023
But in other ways, it was old news for a country in which 92 percent of total employment is in the informal economy—a category that long predates gig work, and which is defined as any employment where workers lack access to government social and labor protections through their jobs. In developing countries, that percentage can be much higher.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 6, 2024
Yet it is precisely at this moment, when democracy is being challenged from all sides, and when the limitations of our nearly 250 years of governing are coming to a breaking point, that we must rise up and fulfill this mandate. Trust in government is at near-record lows because none have yet delivered for all. This work is urgent.
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JANUARY 25, 2024
Key Legal Issues in Influencer Marketing (+Related Laws & Some Legal Tips) Social media is powerful. They also leverage these channels for business and marketing. Enter influencer marketing , which is the next big thing. Here’s the catch: The industry’s global market size has more than doubled since pre-pandemic.
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Philanthropy 2173
APRIL 13, 2023
Photo by Mike Scheid on Unsplash Colorado privacy law INCLUDES nonprofits - [link] This is as it should be. Marketers and politicians LOVE this information. Nonprofits gather, hold, and rarely protect an enormous amount of very sensitive data of very high value. And they use it to even further segment and divide us.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
For example, the Rhode Island Food Policy Council (RIFPC) is the backbone network for the people, businesses, government agencies, and community organizations that make up Rhode Island’s food system. About 20 percent are seated within government. Here are three keys to meal sharing: 1. Manifest your values.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Coined in 2004, ESG emerged as a joint effort by the UN, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the Swiss Government to support the financial industry’s consideration of ESG issues in mainstream investment decision-making (although its roots exist in the socially responsible movement, or SRI). Impact is both.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Teacher Certification and Education Law: Navigating State Requirements and Legal Obligations In the United States, teacher certification is not only a professional milestone but a legal requirement that ensures quality and consistency in education. Familiarity with anti-discrimination laws, such as Title IX, is also essential.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 29, 2023
1 This citizen activism prompted government action to honor the sacrifice. Often, groups of residents would come together to cooperatively seek and share work in sectors like construction and housecleaning or to market locally produced goods. Government support was required. 2 Self-sufficiency enterprises predated the crisis.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The other is that global philanthropy itself is under threat as South African “populist” opposition advocates for so-called “ foreign agent laws.” Similar laws have already rapidly spread across Europe and Central Asia , yet South Africa has avoided them so far. Today, that democracy is fraying. With an estimated 55.5
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Image Credit: Jacob Culp on Unsplash Headlines about which cities have the most or least affordable housing markets often oversimplify the issue; the reality is that cities have a range of residential types with a range of social and economic implications for the people who live there. This point seems obvious but is worth stating explicitly.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 11, 2022
ESG for Regulation: Helping governments make and monitor policies, compliance, and laws. ESG for Assurance exists to help business leaders and investors make better financial decisions by providing data that enables them to account for environmental, social, and governance risks. Helping tap into new markets and customers.
Getting Attention
JANUARY 25, 2013
Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Digital Marketing Manager , New York City Ballet (New York, NY). Marketing Temp , Foundation Center (New York, NY). Online Marketing Manager , Friends of the National Zoo (Washington DC).
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
The whole structure of the law is designed to evaluate which evidence is most compelling. Businesses are successful in competitive markets when they view disconfirming evidence positively, as a tool for improvement, and are open to diverse perspectives and new information. Using governance structures for learning, not just reporting.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Maximizing Data Potential: The Advantages of Implementing Data Governance In the fast-evolving landscape of technology , data stands out as a key asset for modern organizations. Chapters What is Data Governance? These pain points reflect the compounding risks of governing data as an afterthought.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Consider Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (and leader of Bangladesh’s interim government ), who brought the idea for lending to the poor to mainstream banks in the early 1980s.The banks challenged Yunus to prove it could work, and he did —first in one town, then five. Why Employee Ownership So, what is employee ownership?
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
In Germany, the relations between employees and their German employers are stringently regulated under the employment and labor laws of the country. Employers tend to use limited-term employment contracts even though they are subject to restrictions according to employment and labor laws. Check out our tips below and work smarter.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Its more of a marketing term than a scientific term, at present. People call it AI when its an algorithm that does something that they think is clever enough, or new enough, to be able to market as AI. They are mirror reflections of our collected minds and intelligence… Yet these tools are being marketed as replacements for us.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
However, state, county, and city governments are inconsistently skilled at developing local solutions. Taxpayers should expect governments to steward resources responsibly and in a way that maximizes benefit to all citizens. To be sure, the use of research evidence in policymaking is also valuable.
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Bloomerang
OCTOBER 28, 2021
The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. These organizations are structured to grant the power of governance to the board of directors and power of Executive Director management. We will outline the top five responsibilities that governing bodies assume for the Executive Director (ED).
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 6, 2024
Direct acquisition of low-rent buildings—through laws like TOPA and COPA—is one of the strongest tools tenants can use to push back against this trend. Private equity now represents over half of the financial backing among the 35 largest owners of multifamily buildings—up from only a third in 2011.
NonProfit Hub
AUGUST 21, 2020
They’re values or moral principles governing the conduct and actions of a group of people or individuals. The same thing goes for marketing. Every party involved in a marketing deal has different expectations of how things should go, but marketing ethics guides them. . Market research . Market audience .
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Selfish Giving
AUGUST 21, 2019
Interestingly, the group Word on the Curb is turning this cause campaign around and sending the chicken boxes back to the government agency that spent £57,000 to launch it. Join Perlman and Perlman's Karen Wu for this Engage for Good webinar: The 10 Commandments of Cause Marketing Law. Marketing Your Cause.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 29, 2024
In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments. Such a foundational change will require a concurrent shift in nonprofit institutions, which have evolved alongside the government and market-based economy in the United States.
Bloomerang
JANUARY 18, 2023
Government funding and donor support. Market research is an important step in the planning process. If you’re just starting, then market research could be: Research the competition. Create a compelling and effective marketing and outreach plan. Financial projections. Strategies for achieving those goals.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JANUARY 30, 2024
Regular readers of the newspaper were likely already familiar with the development thanks to news articles that praised Morris Cafritz’s “vision and courage” and a constant stream of advertisements bringing his over 3,000 new units to market. This move recognizes the federal government as, in the words of scholars William A.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 21, 2023
How do we organize to put Joy’s Law, and more broadly collective intelligence, to work?” Again, governments are not businesses, and universities are not automobile manufacturers. Nondisruptive creation can universally be defined as the creation of a brand-new market outside or beyond the boundaries of existing industries.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
As of 2019, there are approximately 1,000 ROCs—that’s about 2 percent of the national market, which is significant but still an admittedly modest share. State and local governments can…pass laws…extending a right of first refusal to the residents to match any competing offers to buy the land. How are ROCs Created?
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 2, 2024
They are often criticized for privatizing solutions to problems that some regard as properly public or commodifying sensitive areas where some believe market forces are inappropriate. Rawls is known for producing an egalitarian theory of justice that has had a towering influence on the theory and practice of politics and law.
The Kindful Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Bylaws are the main governing document of your nonprofit and will act as a guide and decision-making tool for the board of directors. Two committee types include: 1) standing committees like governance, development, finance and executive committees and 2) ad hoc committees. Create your bylaws. Bylaws specify board rules and practices.
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