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Governance Management Non-Profits 
Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JUNE 10, 2024
How to Create a High-Performing Non-Profit Team Successful nonprofits, NGOs and Social Enterprises have high performing teams. Employees are the lifeblood of any business, and non-profits are no exception. How Does a Nonprofit Team Differ from a For-Profit Team? Ready to expand your team?
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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?
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Fundraising Leadership
OCTOBER 31, 2024
election2024 ” The mission of civility during this time applies to private companies, non-profits (that are legally mandated to be non-partisan), as well as larger public companies with an extensive employee base and perhaps a distanced hierarchy of ownership. Decreasing political anxiety at work is the goal.
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.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 1, 2022
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. After graduating in 2002, I did an internship at the newspaper El Nuevo Día. In that last year, I started working at Primera Hora, until 2017.
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Anedot
MARCH 6, 2025
The Executive Director should be imbued with a passion for conserving natural resources and environmental quality, have the skills, experience, and insights to manage organizational challenges, and the ability to communicate with, educate, and inspire others. MCL is governed by a working board of volunteers who live in Marin County.
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Nonprofit Marketing Guide
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
Liesl has spent most of her career in the non-profit sector, working for notable organizations such as KERA Channel 13/Dallas and Girl Scouts of Texas-Oklahoma Plains. Additionally, she has worked in local government and in the corporate world.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Instead of making frequent trips to a clinic, patients can use telemedicine to check in with their healthcare provider, receive advice on managing their condition, and adjust treatment plans as neededall from the comfort of their home. This continuity of care is critical in managing chronic diseases and improving long-term health outcomes.10
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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.
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Anedot
MARCH 11, 2025
More about us: www.welcominghome.org Current Staffing: For the l ast eight years, the two founders have led the organization on a pro-bono basis, with one heading up program management and development and the other focusing on finance and board management. Have managed annual cash budgets of between $300K – $600 K.
CNPE
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Dear Friends, With continued changes in government funding, the financial outlook for nonprofits feels more stressful than ever. In the spirit of "preparing for a rainy day" now is the time to take practical steps to identify and manage financial vulnerabilities in our organizations. Running a non-profit organization is stressful work.
Non Profitvote
MARCH 7, 2025
Furthermore, non-citizens are already legally barred from voting in federal elections. As detailed in our previous blog on the SAVE Act , were calling on non-profit leaders to use our Congressional Outreach Tool to write to their members of Congress and ask them to reject the SAVE Act if and when it comes up for another vote in the House.
Selfish Giving
APRIL 10, 2017
Such engagement could allow brands to share their charitable commitments and could bring customers along, join in the efforts and give via a customized e-commerce experience." - Kasia Reterska, Managing Partner, McPherson Strategies. 2016 America’s Charity Checkout Champions. It is migrating away from the counter and into the virtual world.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 25, 2023
Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 22, 2023
trillion in total assets managed by US investment firms were invested with some sort of impact criteria in mind, or as US SIF phrased it, with “ sustainable investing strategies.” Every two years, US SIF releases their Trends report, most recently in December 2022 (reflecting 2021 figures). trillion of the then-$51.4
Pam Moore
AUGUST 11, 2018
It's even more challenging if your business is in a highly regulated industry such as healthcare, financial, insurance or government. Content tips and tricks – actionable strategies to create engaging and profitable content on a tight budget. Marketers working on government programs. Non-profits. Consultants.
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Nonprofit Fixer
AUGUST 28, 2024
Despite how many nonprofit boards are struggling, board leadership and management does not have to be complicated. Responsibility 1: Nonprofit Boards Set and Enforce Policy At the most basic level, boards are the governing body of the nonprofit organization. This includes managing risk. Some risk you transfer with insurance.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 8, 2024
And in the same way that white flight depleted cities of their resources and tax revenue, white nonprofit leaders are often handing off organizations with weak revenue streams, poor staff management, disorganized membership bases, and lack of evaluation, and—to top it off—they are taking funder relationships with them. The country’s 33.2
The Charity CFO
JANUARY 31, 2022
You may also know it as a profit and loss statement or income and expense report. In the for-profit world, they call the difference between revenues and expenses net income. Or profit. . It includes donations, grants, fundraising, earned revenue, government funding, and special events. These are the most common: .
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
It’s a common misconception that nonprofits don’t focus on financial goals since they’re not generating a profit. Furthermore, nonprofits receive different types of revenue than most for-profit businesses. of resources more than profitability,?with How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different?
Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Yet in that year, the World Bank’s International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict. Paradoxically, some of these governments contributed to the violence against their people. Those controlling the taps need to readjust the plumbing.
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Fundraising Leadership
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Read more in Take The Lead on women leaders in journalism Understanding where you are with fault lines and self-categorization is also urgently important as a leader in management and teams seeking to create a welcoming and inclusive work culture. Explaining the role of NOW in today’s culture, Nunes said, “We are non-partisan and issue-based.”
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Candid
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
This includes AI-driven financial decisions, health-tech solutions based on incomplete data, and the use of digital surveillance against communities that already distrust law enforcement and government agencies. Nonprofits step up to defend data equity The good news is that more nonprofits are stepping up to protect data equity.
Pam Moore
APRIL 2, 2022
Pam joins TPI with more than 25 years of marketing and product management leadership roles across technology services in the public and private sector. It has worked with over half of the current Fortune 1000 companies, as well as governments, professional athletes and sports teams, and many other organizations.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
By Wouter Vandersypen , Chris Claes & Steven Serneels Imagine being in charge of a profitable vegetable cooperative in Benin. You know the cooperative can increase its income and improve its resilience if most of this year’s profit is set aside for investing in new hardware. You also know that your members are very poor.
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Top Nonprofits
JULY 2, 2024
Managing your nonprofit’s finances is about more than just raising money and recording what you earn and spend. This means it’s crucial not only to manage your organization’s reserve funds well but also to stay aware of the current financial best practices and trends in the nonprofit sector.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
These properties are not included in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs), which are parts of the country prone to flooding, erosion, or mudslide hazards where floodplain management procedures must be enforced, and flood insurance must be purchased by homeowners.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2022
With the help of our late friend, Bruce Herman , a dozen Windows workers traveled to Italy to learn how to manage a successful worker cooperative restaurant. Colors, in short, was never (or at best, rarely) profitable. It operated as long as it did thanks to the cost-cutting measures and creativity of ROC’s management team.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
As one executive passionately said in a recent interview, “climate action is non-negotiable, but the race to outpace biodiversity loss is even more crucial. Our planet, and our profits, hinge on it.” Effectively managing biodiversity risks has become an imperative in the financial market.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2024
CRH’s salvation eventually came in the form of a collaborative approach, pivoting toward a combination of emergency funding provided by a small family foundation; a nonprofit, non-extractive loan fund; a third-party investment firm; and a coalition of Latinx community development financial institutions (CDFIs).
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries.
The Charity CFO
JANUARY 17, 2022
The basic accounting principles for nonprofit organizations are the same as accounting for for-profit companies. . And it may also include non-cash donations (or in-kind donations) of goods or services. Plus, non-cash outflows, like when you use or give away, resources you received as a donation. Grant funds. Office supplies.
Get Fully Funded
MARCH 2, 2023
When you manage constituent relationships, interactions, and outcomes through a case management process, understanding the key data points at play will allow you to analyze the bigger picture of your performance over time. An author, professor, and internationally recognized expert, Sheri believes in data, metrics, and accountability.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 12, 2023
In early 2022, California’s Central Valley water district experienced theft by its own former general manager. Over the course of 23 years, former general manager Dennis Falaschi stole $25 million worth of water. These tankers supply non-potable water or water that cannot be used for drinking purposes.
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The Kindful Blog
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Why start a nonprofit (and not a for-profit)? However, if your main goal is to make money and you have a successful revenue model, you would be wise to consider starting a for-profit. How will you manage setbacks or obstacles while starting your organization? How can I tell if my nonprofit will succeed? Create your bylaws.
Get Fully Funded
APRIL 15, 2021
You’re working where there’s more client demand than resources, not enough staff, tough working conditions, a non-paycheck-motivated labor force (also known as volunteers ), and a much-needed mission that may be broadly unpopular. You see, in business accounting, money made beyond the cost to run a business is known as a profit.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Image credit: skyNext on istock.com “We have observed a disconcerting pattern where Black women leaders are vacating their roles, with some leaving the non-profit sector altogether, citing hostility toward their leadership, strain on their health and well-being, unfair job expectations, and limited opportunities for career progression” (3).
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Unfortunately, conversations with innovators from the private and NGO sectors indicate that international donors and their funding processes, attitudes, and relations with local governments can inadvertently act as barriers to developing effective health innovations. consultant managing this project jointly manipulated performance indicators.”
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Pam Moore
AUGUST 31, 2018
You must get in the head of both your management as well as your audience. You are not speaking the same language as your management. It could be you are talking apples and your management is talking oranges. Too many new social media managers get all hyped up about vanity metrics such as followers, likes, etc.
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The Charity CFO
MARCH 24, 2022
The USDA relaxed the rules for those who can participate in the programs, allowing for-profit restaurants to join and allowing meals to be packaged and consumed off-site. . 3 Common Types of Fraud in Non-profits . Billing fraud is so common because many medium to large-sized nonprofits have government contracts.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Historically, the Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) has been used as a term to capture these important upstream, non-medical drivers of health. For example, a solution to help Elisa manage her diabetes might not work in her community because of the cultural or economic barriers that are present.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MAY 2, 2024
The crucial insight,” write governance scholars Christopher Ansel and Jacob Torfing , “is that no single actor has the knowledge, resources, and capacities to govern alone in our complex and fragmented societies.” Nor do psychology, economics, management science, critical theory, urban planning, operations research, or any other field.
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NonProfit Leadership Center
AUGUST 22, 2022
This year’s conference breakout speakers address some of the most pressing issues facing nonprofit professionals, from acquiring and retaining top talent and leading like an entrepreneur to prioritizing yourself in a non-stop world and embracing an inclusive culture. As an award-winning leader, her P.R.A.I.S.E. Culture and P.R.A.I.S.E.
Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit
MAY 20, 2022
Contacting a local government representative. Self-described as a “non-profit junkie,” Sarah has dedicated her career to serving the needs of the non-profit sector. However, you could also track the conversion rate for any of the following: Registering to attend an upcoming event. Joining your email list.
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