NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Image Credit: Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability. By shifting from power-hoarding to power-sharing, nonprofits can create governance structures that truly align with their mission.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Christine Hunt One of the most impactful grant programs the Kendeda Fund has ever undertaken was funding our nonprofit partners’ operating reserves. While living that close to financial insolvency may be common, it is extremely risky for any nonprofit, not just those whose funders are sunsetting.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Nonprofit managers are scrambling to get clarity on how to proceed regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new “click to cancel” provisions requiring businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel enrollment in recurring billing, such as memberships. None would speak on the record but only for background when contacted.

Public and Nonprofit Management 59

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 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? 7 The lack of robust data systems to track and manage the allocation and utilization of funds across healthcare centers led to inefficiencies and poor accountability.

Health 57

Health Technology Healthcare Medical 57

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Woodrow Rosebaum Tech for nonprofits has been overlooked for decades, lagging while governments and businesses found ways to streamline, coordinate and scale. With outdated systems and siloed data, nonprofits are not keeping up with the basic demands of modern digital infrastructure. The technology exists. Lets be real.

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Public and Nonprofit Management Collaborations Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 59

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership. ” Paul was fond of this phrase—“hermeneutic of generosity”—which has deep roots in theology but that we rarely hear in management literature or political discourse.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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Getting Attention

JANUARY 25, 2013

Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Communications and Technology Manager , Association of Small Foundations (Washington DC). Communications Manager , Communities Creating Opportunity (Kansas City, MO). New Opportunities.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “The Face of Climate Change,” and was first published on May 1, 2022. It is jointly governed by members of the Nakoda and Aaniiih nations, and includes a 22,000- acre (over 34,000 square miles) bison reserve, home to a herd of over 500 buffalo.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 20, 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.” Philanthropy has had a complicated relationship with the government. We should heed a few lessons from this past work.

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Getting Attention

MARCH 9, 2015

Please post YOUR nonprofit marketing job here: Featuring jobs with nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, B Corps, and agencies and other vendors serving nonprofits. Associate Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA). Business Development Manager Nonprofit Finance Fund (New York, NY).

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Communication Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Associations 65

Anedot

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We are actively seeking a dynamic and energetic individual to join our Social Services team as a Bilingual Case Manager. In this role you will be responsible for providing comprehensive case management services to clients, with a focus on delivering support in both English and Spanish. Flexibility to work an 8-hour day within the 8 m.–6

Management 52

Management Nonprofit governance and management Insurance Psychology 52

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.

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Children Environmental Nonprofits Agriculture 105

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In contrast, guaranteed income gives cash to people living below the poverty line or with inconsistent or no income and entails a qualifying process. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King advocated for guaranteed income as the simplest and most effective solution to poverty. Though related to universal basic income (UBI), it is not the same.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

Those living in poverty, near highways or dump sites, or without access to clean cooking options are also at higher risk. Across the world, the burden largely remains on individuals to protect themselves from pollution rather than governments tackling the sources. standard was introduced.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The federal government has also committed $1 billion to fund solar rooftop energy, with an initial allocation of $450 million announced last July. million households and, according to the US Census Bureau , a poverty rate of 41.7 That’s a shift we are still looking for from the government right here.” But challenges persist.

Energy 128

Energy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 128

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 26, 2024

According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), this destabilization can lead to “cumulative community stress, increases in poverty, domestic violence, substance abuse, and forced migration.” Because they must rely on parents and other adult caregivers for safety and support, including mental health interventions.

Health 113

Health Agriculture Children Public and Social Policy 113

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The Role of Connectivity in Empowering Global Nonprofits In today’s increasingly interconnected world, connectivity plays a pivotal role in empowering global nonprofits to extend their reach, enhance their impact, and operate more efficiently.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. A nonprofit, the East Portland Community Investment Trust , serves as the owner and lead manager and developer of the property, and for a monthly subscription fee of $10 to $100, nearby residents can become owners themselves.

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Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation Nonprofit governance and management Poverty 105

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Our minds and our collective governance systems would bog down if we had to always consider all the connections of everything to everything else. We often hear the sentiment, “I already work on poverty (or climate or health disparities, etc.) System boundaries divide the big, messy, interconnected world into smaller subsystems.

Energy 143

Energy Health Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 143

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the past 30 years, it has made substantial improvements in the living conditions and social status of people with disabilities due to rapid economic growth, administrative and legislative actions, and the dedicated efforts of nonprofit organizations that champion the disability community. Narrative change is paramount for system change.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

From the Washington Post Guild strike to the mission of nonprofits like the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, media workers are insisting not only that company executives can change course but are also setting the record straight by telling their side of the story. The Post Guild action made it 35.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Example: “Do you have any experience with a budget for your family or managing money for a community project?”)

Curriculum and Teaching 105

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Image credit: Christian Ouellet on istock.com Financing challenges often stymie nonprofits. Executive Director Luis Gallardo calculated that the nonprofit would need half a million dollars in the best-case scenario and, more likely, a million dollars to reach the first milestones. Yet even after having been awarded an $11.2

Non-Profits 124

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 14, 2023

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. Every community is unique.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I also come from a family of grocery workers and managers. When I was little, my dad managed a large local grocery. So, we’ve been identifying assets, both human and infrastructural, that others might not see or even imagine when they read headlines focused on crime and poverty on the Northeast side.

Food 111

Food Public and Nonprofit Management Medical Community Development 111

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

For a social sector organization or any other system to do this, it must ask: Are we prepared to make room for people to practice leadership in ways that differ from conventional management styles? Take the Center for Law and Social Policy , a nonprofit committed to reducing poverty and increasing economic opportunity.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 8, 2023

Supercharge your board fundraising Board fundraising is one of the thorniest challenges in nonprofit leadership. Board members and nonprofit leaders know that fundraising is essential to meeting your organization’s mission. In my decades working with nonprofit boards and leaders, I know just how difficult this dynamic can be.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

As a passionate and committed leader in the nonprofit sector, I firmly believe in the power of community organizations to drive positive, equitable change. The crux of this article is simple: Nonprofits must advance their mission by valuing their employees’ worth through fair compensation and benefits and by celebrating their worth.

Poverty 52

Poverty Values Health Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 22, 2023

How Machine Learning can Contribute to Social Good Now is the right time for businesses, governments, and non-profits to consider ML applications that go beyond automation and improving bottom lines, and figure out how can they use these innovative technologies to contribute to society.

Non-Profits 52

Non-Profits Nonprofit governance and management Medical Children 52

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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 11, 2024

They warn that strategic philanthropy is dangerous because “it diverts attention from fundamental reforms less palatable to wealthy donors and from the fact that government and corporate behavior are responsible for the ills of society.” We know of no foundation—even the largest—that thinks it replaces government.

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Philanthropy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Social Policy Governance 129

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

No humane government would have turned to forcible and violent arrest to punish a family like the Robertses for trying to survive and stay together.” A Broader Crisis: Criminalizing Homelessness Homelessness is, of course, a national problem with broad scope. The family was evicted and became homeless. They didn’t deserve this.”

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Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 122

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 105

Collaborations Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Governance 105

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. I was accepted and enrolled in a program, at the (now defunct) School for International Training, titled Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Environmental Agriculture Nonprofit governance and management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

By the end of it, I was asking myself: “Why do people think poverty is their fault? And in that story, federal government policies, such as the Homestead Act , had never helped them, even though of course they did. A lot of nonprofits fall into that category. Alissa Quart: Definitely, it builds on Squeezed.

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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.

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