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Governance Philanthropy Public and Nonprofit Management 
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 5, 2024
By Darren Isom , Cora Daniels & Lyell Sakaue Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an island where Black families have been vacationing since the 1800s.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 20, 2025
Image Credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Broad segments of the nonprofit sector are concerned about the new presidential administration and the threats it poses to nonprofit organizations. A charity or nonprofits plans can be shut down for a failure to properly register.
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Candid
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Over the past decade, it has become increasingly commonplace for those individuals to make mega gifts to other wealthy and at times famous people who have visibility, access, and power, as opposed to traditional nonprofit organizations that engage in social programming, capacity building, and direct services.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” Public investments like ARPA have reawakened a commitment by politicians to use our dollars to improve access to quality housing, schools, and jobs.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.
NonProfit Leadership Center
JANUARY 26, 2024
The Nonprofit Leadership Center is pleased to welcome four new board members to our dynamic board of directors : Lisa L. On a daily basis, nonprofit organizations strengthen the fabric of our community and play a vital role in building healthy communities by providing critical services that contribute to economic stability and mobility.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Image Credit: Karl Solano on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their missions. But this doesnt have to be the norm.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JANUARY 21, 2020
I was recently contacted by Julianne Buck, executive director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County about the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts I send. Our job as nonprofit executives is to equip our boards with tools and skills for being our ambassadors out and about in the community.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
This article is the third installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. Public lands across the United States are being mismanaged, whether by the federal government or private interests, in ways that mirror the relationship these powers have had with Native people for centuries. Some good steps are being taken.
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Affnetz
JULY 10, 2023
How do Nonprofits make money By mikecrum Here’s a question that is often asked in many contexts – as a Development Director frustrated with the lack of revenue coming into a Nonprofit, as a new board member to a nonprofit, or perhaps you just posed it as a Google search phrase: How Do Nonprofits Make Money? Let’s unpack!
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.
Bloomerang
MAY 27, 2021
A recent study by Fidelity Charitable – the USA’s biggest grantmaking public charity – reported that two out of three volunteers had reduced or halted their participation at a nonprofit which before COVID-19 , they’d previously offered their time to. The challenge of human resources: volunteer re-engagement. That’s barely one in ten.
The NonProfit Times
DECEMBER 23, 2024
By Woodrow Rosebaum Tech for nonprofits has been overlooked for decades, lagging while governments and businesses found ways to streamline, coordinate and scale. With outdated systems and siloed data, nonprofits are not keeping up with the basic demands of modern digital infrastructure. The technology exists.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Nonprofits faced significant workforce shortages last year, continuing a years-long trend that has left the nonprofit sector in a “crisis” that is hurting the individuals and communities they serve. When nonprofits cannot hire enough employees to provide vital services, the public suffers.
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Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 31, 2016
Recently, we explored why it’s important to create a reporter-friendly online newsroom on your organization’s website to help ensure that you’re putting your best foot forward to journalists who might be interested in covering your nonprofit. The public — and reporters — use these pages as the gateway to the tax forms.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
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. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, which points to dozens of breakthroughs where open Form 990 data enabled new insights and practices.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
mid-south nonprofit conference announces keynote speaker Xavier Ramey, one of the most respected voices in the DEI space, will deliver the keynote address for the 2023 Mid-South Nonprofit Conference. He is an award-winning social strategist, noted public speaker, & conflict mediator. Register here
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 18, 2023
There are specific funding strategies that philanthropy can employ to shield artists from the capitalist market. Troutman insists, “Historic Clayborn Temple, and others like us, can teach philanthropy a few things.…Artists Anasa is right: Artists can indeed help philanthropy rethink its pace and purpose.
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NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
Now, they’re expanding their philanthropy to news organizations that report on food, agriculture, and the environment and, in turn, amplifying the family’s other efforts. Journalism is welcoming the new infusion of philanthropy. Notably, Walton family journalism philanthropy is focused in overlapping areas.
Selfish Giving
APRIL 10, 2017
Also on the chopping block are big donations to nonprofits. According to Engage for Good , an industry group that helps companies and causes engage consumers and employees around social issues, large checkout fundraisers like Kmart's raise hundreds of millions of dollars for nonprofits. "We 2016 America’s Charity Checkout Champions.
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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. But what about the nonprofit sector? As a nonprofit sector, the first crucial step toward accelerating our progress toward this future is aiming for it.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
AUGUST 14, 2023
This survey gathered information about the overall health and capacity of the nonprofit sector, and examined what changes, if any, had occurred since the 2020 iteration. This survey gathered information about the overall health and capacity of the nonprofit sector, and examined what changes, if any, had occurred since the 2020 iteration.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 3, 2023
The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 29, 2023
Showing Up In the United States, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in 2020 sparked a national moment of reckoning with institutional racism, income inequality, and related failures inherent in US social and economic systems. In its wake, momentum for change seemed to build.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
You all think the federal government paying reparations is inevitable and that it’s going to happen within the next 20 to 30 years. And I am the co-founder and managing director of Liberation Ventures (LV). And that means building public will for a comprehensive federal reparations program. We will not be silenced.
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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.
The NonProfit Times
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
There are also nine recommendations that call leaders across the nonprofit, funder, business and policy sectors to take action to protect and promote the future of generosity. I’d say it is the philanthropic sector, businesses and our government officials,” as targets of the data, Gianoni said. Hodder told The NonProfit Times. “At
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
JANUARY 22, 2021
How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational. While nonprofits can’t control donor behavior, they can optimize their appeal by demonstrating competence, value, and transparency at every level. For nonprofits looking to maximize their outreach potential, exemplary governance is the answer.
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Momentum Nonprofit Partners
JULY 20, 2023
The Nonprofit Talent Summit, co-presented by Momentum Nonprofit Partners , Christian Brothers University Institute for Leadership Development , and Mid-South Philanthropy Network , is perfect for nonprofit executive directors, board members, HR professionals, COOs, directors, and managers.
Candid
JULY 18, 2023
To date, 241 individuals with a cumulative net worth easily surpassing $1 trillion have made the pledge—a public commitment to give the majority of their fortunes to charity. That’s potentially a lot of philanthropy. They are not the only pledgers with the capacity to set public priorities.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 28, 2024
These organizations include nonprofit film festivals, artist support and narrative change organizations, micro-cinemas, filmmaker collectives, and public media entities across the United States and US islands. Coming from the film industry, they have created these organizations without formal training in nonprofit governance.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 23, 2023
From the COVID-19 pandemic to structural racism, community-based organizations have always stepped up to fill the gaps and forge new solutions—especially where government is unable, unwilling, or ineffective. These organizations face onerous and exclusionary processes to tap into government funding sources.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 14, 2024
Image: “Death Caught From A Plane Window” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” And even if there isn’t, why do you think that nonprofits have been so ineffective at preventing the growth of inequality?
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. The answers are, well, complex.
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Bloomerang
OCTOBER 7, 2021
How to build an engaged nonprofit board . The CEO or executive director (ED) is the visionary and the public “face” of the organization. By giving their time, talents, and resources, they demonstrate in a public way that the organization is vital to the community and deserves support. This is where board members come into play.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 18, 2024
By Valerie Conn & Sofia Michelakis Over the past few years, more and more funders with free-standing, endowed, or well-resourced private philanthropies have reached out to us asking us for help connecting them to potential co-funders. One is that it may divert funding away from other important areas.
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Nonprofit Marketing Guide
JULY 21, 2016
If you handle media relations for your nonprofit, it’s important to understand the rules that govern professional journalism. act as the public’s watchdog. But how does this code actually apply to the nonprofit world? True or false: The story about my nonprofit contains inaccurate information.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
APRIL 27, 2023
In contrast, a 2017 report found that only 5 percent of nonprofits were using artificial intelligence, and only 28 percent of nonprofits were using data for predictive or prescriptive purposes. The public sector isn’t much different. In the private sector, market forces drive investment in data to stay competitive.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 8, 2021
The Plain Language Movement started in the 1970s based on the idea to make it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications. Plain Language Resources: Big Duck’s Plain Language for Nonprofits. They focus your nonprofit on tracking and reporting impact which is essential for fundraising success.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 22, 2023
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. On the other hand, plenty of “public equity” (stock-based) funds also have “impact” in their name. trillion of the then-$51.4
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
DECEMBER 14, 2023
By Akilah Watkins The Supreme Court’s June decision on affirmative action at US colleges and universities has raised profound concerns for the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit leadership and boards are growing more diverse. While trust in nonprofits has declined, more than half of Americans still trust us to do what’s right.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Founded in 2008 with backing from the Ford Foundation, NeighborWorks America, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Capital Impact Partners, and Prosperity Now, ROC USA and its affiliates have assisted 22,000 residents in over 300 communities in 21 states to collectively purchase and manage their ROCs. ROC USA helped the co-op secure $5.25
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 8, 2023
” But the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), the flagship federal legislation governing job training, badly needs an update. They often combine “hard” skills with “softer” (or “ more durable ”) skills, like how to apply for a job, manage finances, and communicate well with colleagues.
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