NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 15, 2022

In response to research that shows nearly 1 in 3 nonprofits lack any professionals of color on their boards (BoardSource) and to foster more inclusive and equitable communities, the Nonprofit Leadership Center launched the Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship in 2021. Meet the 2022 Fellows.

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Nonprofit governance and management Participation and motivation Leadership Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Participants came from diverse organizations, including homeless shelters and a queer youth summer camp. In the six months following the training, staff at a participating homeless shelter have not handed anyone over to the police—a testament to the program’s success. We are used to fighting in the South.

Nonprofit governance and management 110

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Law Homelessness 110

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 6, 2023

Edmondson & Anahide Nahhal In 2019, Joyce Craig, the newly elected mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, was grappling with two major crises : The city was reporting an opioid-related death every few days, and chronic homelessness was rising. An acceptable entry point has enough support from the team and others to move forward.

Collaborations 96

Collaborations Homelessness Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 96

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

A nonprofit Advisory Board can be a great way to engage key supporters with relevant professional skills, life experiences, and networks. Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility.

Nonprofit governance and management 111

Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits 111

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” It’s a burning question so many nonprofits have, and to be honest, I can’t say that I blame them! Think about it: what could your nonprofit do right now with a $5,000 check?? (I Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! For one, it’s usually a lot of money. Create a list of needs.

Nonprofit governance and management 98

Nonprofit governance and management Foundations Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 98

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round. .”

Children 105

Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Avoid them!). Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

Fundraising 126

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit governance and management Nonprofits 126

Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

Few things are more critical to your nonprofit’s success than your board of directors. A strong and effective board can help provide strategic direction, keep your finances in check, and uphold a high standard of governance. Conversely, a toxic, dysfunctional, or low-performing board can destroy your nonprofit.

Participation and motivation 81

Participation and motivation Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Leadership 81

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

There’s nothing more exciting than making the decision to start a nonprofit! But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Seriously, about half of all new nonprofits don’t make it through the first year or so. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Whenever I find myself with a few hours of free time, I like to consult nonprofit professionals to help make their organizations more robust and self-sufficient. Grants can also serve as a catalyst for what we in the nonprofit sector call “mission creep.”

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Nonprofit governance and management Governance Homelessness Nonprofits 56

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Despite multiple warnings, fines, and legal notices directing them to leave, they had stayed because they were otherwise homeless. A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope.

Homelessness 109

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 109

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When disaster strikes, many are left displaced or homeless, without transportation and access to necessary physical and mental health services, exacerbating existing health problems. For example, CDP dispersed several resiliency-related grants to underserved Texas communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

Philanthropy 96

Philanthropy Health Medical Nonprofit governance and management 96

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In 2021, San Francisco launched a six-month pilot program, called Miracle Money , which distributed $500 a month to 15 people experiencing homelessness in the city. These components can be employed through a nonprofit organization or city government.

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty Nonprofit governance and management 106

Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

While she did later return to earn a bachelors in sociology from College of New Rochelle and a masters in nonprofit and organizational management from Maris College School of Management, Chan Shue joined the NYPD in 1993. “They call me Mother Teresa.” I don’t have a special sauce, I just use my sauce often.

Race and Ethnicity 98

Race and Ethnicity Law Nonprofit Administration and Development Sociology 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 39 The program also helped Burrell strengthen his communication, project management, and team leadership skills. It can’t be siloed.”

Nonprofit Administration and Development 89

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 89

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In facilitating the development of systems change plans for a variety of nonprofits, I’ve found that principles associated with social justice offer a unifying framework to help staff and boards understand not only the end goal of systems change, but also the root causes of social problems and what strategies will solve them.

Public and Social Policy 110

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 110

The Agitator

MARCH 25, 2018

These are necessary tools for growth, but they’re little understood or accepted in the nonprofit world. If we think the nonprofit sector with its proliferation of organizations is or should be somehow immune to the healthy pruning and consolidation required in the private sector, then we are kidding ourselves.

Finance 56

Finance Fundraising Fundraising Homelessness 56

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Housing instability—whether through homelessness or frequent evictions and moves—creates chronic, toxic stress and exposes people to traumatic and unhealthy situations. The research finds that housing affects health through three pathways: housing stability, housing affordability, and access to a health-promoting neighborhood.

Health 100

Health Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Philanthropy 100

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How a Holistic Human Approach Can Improve Nonprofit Success. Nonprofit and aid organizations are working tirelessly to address some of society’s most pressing social needs. At the same time, many nonprofits experienced surging caseloads in the past year, challenging them to rethink their mission, vision, and operational capacity.

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Nonprofit governance and management Collaborations Homelessness Social Enterprise 80

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 2, 2024

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. Nor do psychology, economics, management science, critical theory, urban planning, operations research, or any other field.

Collaborations 119

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 119

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 20, 2020

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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Nonprofit governance and management Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 94

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 17, 2023

Because the impact from these for-profit investments is exactly the same as the impact from our nonprofit grants: More than half of the organizations are directly impacting more than 10,000 lives, more than 40 percent are impacting 50,000 lives, a quarter are impacting 500,000 lives and more than a fifth, millions of lives.

Marketing 109

Marketing Marketing Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 109

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When your nonprofit is just getting started, any nonprofit donation is a welcome donation, right? Are there times that you could actually do your nonprofit harm by taking a non-cash donation? Most of the time, these more complicated donations are fine to accept, they just take a little more work to manage.

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofits Homelessness 119

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, we are a provider of donor management software. So I always like to take a step back and say, “Okay, before we start to talk about writing, and management, and all of these other things, I think it’s really important to think about how do we get here?

Nonprofit governance and management 119

Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Foundations 119

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

When you started your nonprofit, you likely had a core group of supporters who provided donations and funding on a regular basis. That’s why nonprofits need donor segmentation. Donor segmentation is the process of separating your nonprofit supporters into groups based on common qualities and characteristics they share.

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Retention Nonprofit governance and management Communication Construction 115

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Besides doing these webinars, we’re a donor management software provider. And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry.

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Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 122

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond our webinars, I would invite you to check us out because we are a provider of donor-management software, that’s what Bloomerang is. And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization.

Children 83

Children Curriculum and Teaching Education Education 83

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I was in conversation with the managers of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP). And it means you don’t have to talk to the bosses alone as one against the management. They are homeless. Image Credit: Ryan Loughlin on unsplash. This interview was conducted via Zoom and has been edited for clarity and length.

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Health Insurance Production Homelessness 98

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 28, 2023

For example, New York City created the innovative concept of a Voluntary Local Review (VLR), based on the Voluntary National Reviews that nations submit to the UN, in which local and regional governments adopt and track their progress toward the SDGs.

Collaborations 92

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 92

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 27, 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.” W hat would a nonprofit sector that pursued economic justice look like? The other five work for nonprofit intermediary organizations. Two of them—Dr.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Poverty 121

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Are you a “small” nonprofit just getting started with fundraising? As of 2021, nearly one million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. dollars in revenue, approximately 70 percent of all nonprofits registered in the United States. These nonprofits are supported mainly by voluntary public contributions. What did I do?

Nonprofit governance and management 83

Nonprofit governance and management Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management 83

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2023

Foundations manage risk by awarding money to well-known organizations with good track records, and in turn, environmental organizations ensure stable revenue by building large funding relationships with many foundations, keeping their money spigot flowing. million to management and technical assistance, $76.7 million.

Environmental 86

Environmental Foundations Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management 86

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 22, 2022

KA: How does elite capture function in industries that aren’t organized directly around profit—specifically, the civil sector of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, social services, etc.? That means I am astronomically more likely to, say, be invited to interview with Nonprofit Quarterly.

Construction 97

Construction Public and Social Policy Culture Nonprofit governance and management 97

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality. Since the birth of the United States, the federal government has seized over 1.5 What level would that be? Take Jeff Bezos.

Public and Social Policy 93

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance Public Policy 93

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 6, 2023

Some point to large-scale, government-run rental housing, while others also explicitly include housing cooperatives and community land trusts. But in the end, governments dragged their feet and promised change stayed on the drawing board. But that hasn’t stopped movements from pushing. In an era that we call Social Housing 1.0,

Public and Social Policy 106

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 106

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Image: “Through the Fire” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” And those machines are being sold to city governments for millions of dollars, even though their accuracy rate is less than 10 percent.

Public and Social Policy 91

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Non-Profits Production 91

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Initially, New York City officials, backed by pro-immigrant nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and liberal voters, called Abbott’s bluff by welcoming the migrants and promising to help them. “We As soon as they did that, everything got inextricably tangled up with the city’s homeless shelter system.”

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Leadership Food Education 105