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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Posters at the conference highlighted that the first OFN conference in 1985 attracted 21 community development loan funds with a combined $27 million in assets under management. By contrast, according to the US SIF (Sustainable Investment Forum), the CDFI industry (including community development banks and credit unions) had $457.9
Anedot
APRIL 8, 2025
Organizational growth – externally to strengthen and expand programs, and internally for board expansion and training, staff development, support and retention. Assess the staff and provide support, training and professional development, as needed. Ensure adherence to nonprofit regulations and best practices.
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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. One path leads to a conventional wholesale buyer who pays below the cost of production, since prices are forced down by cheap, subsidized imports. Let’s bring it down to earth (literally). About 20 percent are seated within government.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 2, 2024
Though this effort is still in its early days, a follow-on report published in September 2024 emphasizes how small changes in pursuit of pay equity can create ripple effects on staff morale, organizational culture, retention, recruitment, and even productivity and program quality.
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.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
APRIL 3, 2022
Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Offer to support the development director, development committee, board chair, or ED in their fundraising tasks. Show up at fundraising events and help before, during, and after with tasks.
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NonProfit Leadership Alliance
APRIL 1, 2024
Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development. This tailored approach can help all children thrive in educational settings and develop the skills they need to succeed in life.
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The Charity CFO
OCTOBER 4, 2022
million nonprofits globally. To ensure that a nonprofit runs efficiently, several people work behind the scenes to make things much easier, and one of those people is the operations manager. The operations manager might be the secret weapon of the most successful nonprofits we know. There are more than 1.54
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 5, 2024
The UN Disability and Development Report 2018 reveals that individuals with disabilities face fundamental challenges in nearly all aspects of life, including employment, health care, and education. Almost everyone will temporarily or permanently experience disability at some point in their lives, and currently, an estimated 1.3
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 3, 2023
In doing this, the foundation formally recognizes that the source of their wealth came from doing harm to Indigenous communities and develops a strategy to undo that harm. Effectively, the product offered by Edmo’s organization is a hybrid of direct donations and a DAF.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 20, 2023
A team of worker-owners built the initial scaffolding of our membership program, which would provide back-end administration and other technical assistance in exchange for a sliding-scale (pay what you can) monetary pledge and a commitment to solidarity exchange with another group. Photo by Francisco Benavides.
NonProfit Quarterly
APRIL 19, 2023
percent of the entire US economy and growing), a per capita level of expenditure that is far higher than any other developed nation, yet health outcomes are poorer. A Growing Menace In the US, a staggering $4.3 trillion is spent on healthcare (18.3 Where does all this money go?
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 20, 2023
My whole trajectory through the nonprofit sector and analysis of race and power comes from working with those organizations and having the reality of that work hit up against the visions for liberation that I had. There was a lot of administrative work, but then I also got to sit in on some of the meetings. I kept thinking, yes!
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” 15 Exposing what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why they are doing it is crucial to the development of a winning campaign.
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. Many nonprofits are looking for options to engage board members in fundraising without requiring direct solicitation. Only a few of these options involve directly asking for money.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
JUNE 20, 2023
Look, no organization is perfect, and we are as leery as anyone about articles that proclaim that this nonprofit or that company has the secret recipe for building a great culture or achieving great results. Yet this, too, remains a common practice at nonprofits, foundations, and companies.
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Nonprofit Megaphone
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
In the ever-changing landscape of philanthropy, nonprofits are continually seeking innovative ways to maximize impact. Why These Partnerships Are Key for Nonprofit Success Here’s why each of these nonprofit partnership types can be especially beneficial for your organization.
Get Fully Funded
OCTOBER 14, 2021
As a smaller organization, perhaps your nonprofit started with just you. You were the executive director, development officer, marketing manager, and HR department, all rolled into one. After all, your nonprofit is practically run like a business. In this article, we’ll cover: Nonprofit HR vs. For-Profit HR.
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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Consulting with a legal advisor can ensure that your club complies with local laws and regulations. Developing a diversified investment strategy that reflects the club’s risk tolerance and investment horizon can help achieve long-term financial objectives.
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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.” In March 2024, I found myself in an extremely contradictory yet familiar position with some of our national partners.
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NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Image credit: Matt Briney on unsplash.com This is the second article in NPQ ’s series titled Building Power, Fighting Displacement: Stories from Asian Pacific America, coproduced with the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development ( National CAPACD ). And it has made all the difference in avoiding displacement.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 17, 2025
Private equity firms pioneered aggressive strategies, using related entitiesseparate but affiliated companiesto extract wealth through inflated service fees and other nontransparent transactions ( such as converting nonprofit-owned property into leased property and charging inflated lease rates to an affiliated company). trillion (17.6
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NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 13, 2024
The false belief that a person can leverage hard work and talent to pull themselves and their family out of poverty should they only try is a pervasive story that has shaped our culture and laws. Racial discrimination was written into the laws, so these programs continue to be, at best, a Band-Aid solution accessible to only some Americans.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 3, 2023
A third tactic that dollar stores use, one familiar to students of the Walmart business model, is to squeeze suppliers by leveraging “their power as major buyers to coerce suppliers into providing them with special package sizes and lower prices, while charging independent grocers more and restricting the products available to them” (12).
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 17, 2023
Image Credit: Adam Wilson on unsplash.com This is the f ifth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Image: “Color My World” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Over the course of 10 years, Cooperation Jackson has developed, and is in the process of developing, many projects.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 22, 2024
Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart.
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 8, 2023
Image Credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang In August 2018, the first legislation explicitly naming worker-owned cooperatives—the Main Street Employee Ownership Act—became United States federal law. Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream.
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 19, 2023
“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? Nonprofits often play quasi-governmental roles.
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. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.
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NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2022
And the first season of Going for Broke with our production partners at The Nation came out of that. And now we’re in season two with our production partners, Wisconsin Public Radio. RR: How did the partnerships behind the podcast develop, and how did those partnerships inform the podcast’s objectives?
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The Charity CFO
APRIL 27, 2022
Why do people give to nonprofits?”. And while he’s found that the answers vary wildly, he’s managed to identify some core principles that can predictably boost giving to your nonprofit. The biggest communication problem most nonprofits face (13:25). For more nonprofit accounting resources check out www.thecharitycfo.com.
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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.”. Selling just pushes the product. You might just be “pushing product.” The fundraisers identified the barriers: 70% referenced other administrative work.
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iMarketSmart
MAY 22, 2023
If there was a seminar at the Law School, we would invite them to that. Game theory: Able to reciprocate Giving in the primal game has an unbreakable law: Giving must be seen by partners who are able and willing to reciprocate. It can come not only from the nonprofit, but also from a supporting community. How does this work?
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 10, 2025
Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 4 We are involved in health-focused, Native Americanled program development, advocacy, research, and policy change.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Image: “One Sided” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” There is a lot of work to do to develop a practice of tenant organizing that meets the needs of our moment. 16 Next, anger.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 2, 2023
This article is, with publisher permission, adapted from a more extensive journal article, “ A Tax Credit Proposal for Profit Moderation and Social Mission Maximization in Long-Term Residential Care Businesses ” published last year by Nonprofit Policy Forum. These statistics hold true across time and national boundaries (Brennan et al.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
A Muslim entrepreneur wouldn’t even consider applying for a small business loan because Sharia law prevents him from paying interest. Three months later, the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced its new investment priorities. Some were public entities, others were nonprofits.
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iMarketSmart
JUNE 26, 2023
The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The crass reality This administrator-hero story feels noble. Back to fundraising So, why hasn’t that small nonprofit received its million-dollar gift? Often, it’s obvious. The space is cramped.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The stops and starts of the past two years of the Biden administration must be seen in this context, a context in which the forces pushing for a more progressive social contract are neither strong enough to win nor weak enough to lose. Research/development, manufacturing, workforce.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 12, 2023
But at the EconCon conference held in Washington, DC, in June, hosted by the Omidyar Network and a dozen nonprofit think tanks, speakers offered a far broader definition of public power— namely, the power of government to act on behalf of the public. This outsourcing of services is a major reason for the rapid growth of the nonprofit sector.
NonProfit Quarterly
MARCH 30, 2023
Developed nations—which are responsible for most global carbon emissions—are racing for solutions. Developed nations have decided that instead of driving fewer vehicles, we will drive electric vehicles, or EVs. The Biden administration hopes it will address the US EV industry’s near total reliance on foreign lithium sources.
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iMarketSmart
JUNE 26, 2023
The noble dream Small nonprofits have needs. And besides, the struggling nonprofit is doing good things; it deserves a big gift. The crass reality This administrator-hero story feels noble. Back to fundraising So, why hasn’t that small nonprofit received its million-dollar gift? Often, it’s obvious. The space is cramped.
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