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Calling All Donors (and Would-Be Donors): The Vital US Nonprofit Sector Is Under Threat and Must Be Protected

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits are facing significant, arguably unprecedented, challenges and its crucial that donors, whatever their ideologies or particular programmatic goals or priorities, pay attention. Lets start with the drop in rates of giving to nonprofits. We will be taking the pulse of nonprofit leaders on this topic again this year.)

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Today’s public officials are most often trained in areas of administration, policy development, fiscal analysis, and in stewarding public resources and promoting public accountability. That means developing a shared understanding of what those problems are (or will be), how to tackle them, and what success looks like.

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Building Social Housing from the Ground Up: Grassroots Perspectives

NonProfit Quarterly

Building on successful experiments in cooperative housing built by labor unions, they pushed for the type of large-scale, universal housing programs germinating during the interwar period in European cities like Vienna. Seattle organizers won big at the ballot to create a municipal social housing developer for new mixed-income developments.

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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

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.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

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How to Train Your Nonprofit Team in 5 Easy & Effective Steps

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

How to Train Your Nonprofit Team in 5 Easy & Effective Steps. Nonprofit training is a critical component of running a successful organization. Nonprofits hire for passion. That’s why the key to successful nonprofit growth is to find the perfect balance between passionate team members and mission experts.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Each of these systems develops unique and self-reinforcing characteristics, practices, and vocabularies.

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Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing

NonProfit Quarterly

And while Karl Marx-Hof is a mandatory stop, what is actually more interesting is the broader system of social housing it exemplifies, which includes public housing, limited equity cooperatives, public developers, inclusive urban and environmental planning, excellent public transit, and extensive regulation and taxation of the private market.