Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 14, 2021

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. But leadership and taking responsibility for the financial health of an organization, can sometimes be uncomfortable. Only a few of these options involve directly asking for money.

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iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 5, 2022

7] John Greenhoe relates, “the most successful development officers I have worked with developed a regimented procedure for connecting with new prospects.”. The fundraisers identified the barriers: 70% referenced other administrative work. The administrator-hero story works only for small gifts. The Nonprofit Academy.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 29, 2025

Workers at these stores are affiliated with either the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) or the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). REI has nine elected board members.This year, the REI Union is backing the campaigns of two nonprofit leaders.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

Image Credit: Justin Wilkens on unsplash.com In 2021, more than 40 percent of all retail stores that opened in the United States were dollar stores. Increasingly, dollar stores are driving “grocery stores and other retailers out of business” (6), according to a recent report by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 7, 2024

Image: “ Hiding From My Shadow” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” 6 If the Kansas City story sounds all too familiar, welcome to the land of economic development subsidies.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 27, 2023

Nonprofits play a critical role in organizing communities and advocating for better policies to face these crises, and we must now assess what we are looking for in our colleagues and ourselves. Movement work is not simply intersectional—it’s chockablock.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One path leads to this arable land being sold to a developer and turned into a small strip mall. In contrast to systems like energy, transportation, or health care, where expertise is more well defined, food expertise tends to be irrefutable, requiring no advanced degree or professional experience.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

But the machines didnt need breaks or health insurance. Across industries, frontline workersespecially those in retail, food service, and customer supportare being displaced by automation at alarming rates. Jobs such as cashiers, once a staple for workers in retail, are disappearing rapidly. By January 2025, her job was gone.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Image: “Refusing to Settle For Less” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Oil was replaced by textiles, which were then replaced by retail and heavy manufacturing. And then of course there’s John D.

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Manufacturing Public and Social Policy Agriculture Law 122