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The Importance of Establishing Operating Reserves for Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A minority of nonprofits have more than six months of cash in reserve, according to reports like the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s State of the Sector ; many have less than three months of operating reserves on hand.

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Opportunity! Nonprofit Communications Jobs

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Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY). Marketing Strategist The Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL). Assistant Director of Loyalty Marketing Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, NY). Associate Project Editor Appalachian Mountain Club (Boston, MA).

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Getting Federal Money to Communities: A Story from Puerto Rico

NonProfit Quarterly

The value of relationships In nonprofit financing, relationships play a pivotal, often understated, role. While some financial entities were constrained by rigid processes, FSB, Seed Commons, Chordata Capital, and NALCAB saw the broader picture, recognizing the transformative potential of movement alliances.

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What’s Next for Community Development Finance?

NonProfit Quarterly

Indeed, Aisha Benson , CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, spoke near the end of the session to emphasize the obvious: The sector had aspects of both. Holdsclaw argued that CDFIs must remain feisty and must take on completely the violence of poverty. The debate was a bit of an artifice.