NonProfit Leadership Center

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Nonprofit Leadership Center is pleased to welcome four new board members to our dynamic board of directors : Lisa L. On a daily basis, nonprofit organizations strengthen the fabric of our community and play a vital role in building healthy communities by providing critical services that contribute to economic stability and mobility.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Image Credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on iStock Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability.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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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI is transforming industries, and the nonprofit sector is no exception. Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, well-funded organizations are already leveraging AI to increase efficiency and reduce burnout, while smaller nonprofitsoften serving the most marginalized communitiesare being left behind. But AI adoption comes with challenges.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Image Credit: Karl Solano on Pexels Nonprofit boards often uphold outdated power structures, prioritizing elite control over true community accountability.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 missions. But this doesnt have to be the norm.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While governments, foundations, educators, and unions typically focus on job placements as key to improving people’s economic stability, they often overlook individuals who cannot commit to traditional employment schedules. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JULY 31, 2024

Aided by a bridge-building nonprofit, ranchers and federal officials learn to work together in Oregon's high desert By Geoff Nudelman HARNEY COUNTY, ORE. Photo by Bob Keefer Fourth-generation Oregon rancher Gary Miller at his Rock Creek Ranch in Harney County.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Interest in early-stage nonprofits within Korea’s social impact ecosystem has increased in recent years, and more and more are garnering financial and organizational support. As one example, in early 2023, Brian Impact Foundation , which focuses on big-bet philanthropy , donated a total of 12.6 billion won (about $9.7

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 21, 2020

I was recently contacted by Julianne Buck, executive director of the Community Foundation of Grundy County about the Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts I send. Our job as nonprofit executives is to equip our boards with tools and skills for being our ambassadors out and about in the community.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This article is the third installment of NPQ’s series on Community-Driven Philanthropy. Public lands across the United States are being mismanaged, whether by the federal government or private interests, in ways that mirror the relationship these powers have had with Native people for centuries. Some good steps are being taken.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2022

According to the Giving USA 2022 Report , giving by foundations to nonprofit organizations grew by 3.4% Foundation grants now represent 19% of total giving to nonprofits – the largest share on record. The websites listed below can help your nonprofit search and apply for grant funding. Government. in 2021 to $90.88

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Clairification

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The work of philanthropy facilitation is very personal. Which is why establishing and building trust should be part of your nonprofit and personal mission. But, if you rely on philanthropy to survive and thrive, donors are just as important a constituency as your mission-centered beneficiaries.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Philanthropy can play a crucial role in supporting underserved and marginalized communities in their rebuilding process. Alongside that, successful philanthropy also requires a long-term commitment—continuing the work for months and often years to make a real and lasting difference. Be there for the long hall.

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Affnetz

JULY 10, 2023

How do Nonprofits make money By mikecrum Here’s a question that is often asked in many contexts – as a Development Director frustrated with the lack of revenue coming into a Nonprofit, as a new board member to a nonprofit, or perhaps you just posed it as a Google search phrase: How Do Nonprofits Make Money? Let’s unpack!

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Candid

AUGUST 13, 2024

Developing an effective funding strategy is vital to any nonprofit’s ability to sustain or increase its impact. And nonprofit boards play an important role in virtually every organization’s funding strategy. Too often, nonprofits jump at flashy fundraising tactics (“Let’s host a gala!”) So how does that play out?

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iMarketSmart

JANUARY 22, 2025

While there are numerous reasons for nonprofits to worry about their budgets in the coming years, the trust decline is one of the most alarming. Over 20 years ago according to the Edelman Trust Barometer , more people trusted nonprofits than government or business, and this continued even as late as 2015. Its important.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Blue Avocado exists to help nonprofits succeed , and our community of nonprofit experts, leaders, and trailblazers continues to share their wisdom, strengthening us all. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year. Why not ripe?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

By James Nardella & Maharshi Vaishnav We’ve appreciated the thoughtful conversation going on between smart colleagues on both the philanthropic and implementer side of social change about the merits and pitfalls of Big Bet Philanthropy. First and foremost: We do not mind being the “guinea pigs” for this new, bold kind of philanthropy.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 3, 2025

By Sara Horowitz You can feel it when you walk into a mutualist space for the first timewhether its a worker cooperative in North Carolina , a community garden , a labor-housing cooperative , a cohousing group in New York City, a nonprofit building in Portland, Oregon , or a social cooperative in the Italian Alps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 21, 2013

A long overdue follow up to my post on 29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter , below are 29 nonprofit resources that tweet regularly on subjects ranging from fundraising to social media to mobile communications. Social Media, Cause Marketing, Nonprofit Tech. Fundraising, Research, Philanthropy. afpnet.org.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2023

There are specific funding strategies that philanthropy can employ to shield artists from the capitalist market. Troutman insists, “Historic Clayborn Temple, and others like us, can teach philanthropy a few things.…Artists Anasa is right: Artists can indeed help philanthropy rethink its pace and purpose.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many in the nonprofit sector look at their income statements (also known as the “profit and loss” report), but unless you’re a chief financial officer or perform a similar role, you may spend far less time looking at your organization’s overall financial position. These assets help nonprofits deliver on their missions by generating income.

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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 29, 2023

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. Local governments are left bearing the brunt and have, understandably, so far struggled. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Before starting a nonprofit organization, you should understand that the 501(c)(3) designation is just that: a tax designation. Here are the tactical steps you must take to starting a nonprofit. . Here are the tactical steps you must take to starting a nonprofit. . Establish initial governing documents and policies. .

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Bloomerang

MAY 27, 2021

A recent study by Fidelity Charitable – the USA’s biggest grantmaking public charity – reported that two out of three volunteers had reduced or halted their participation at a nonprofit which before COVID-19 , they’d previously offered their time to. A typical example comes from Calnonprofits , the association for Californian nonprofits. .

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nonprofit finances in the United States were relatively strong at the beginning of 2022, largely as a result of government and foundations stepping up their support of nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions focused on nonprofits’ programmatic, operational, and financial health.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

They might be new to nonprofit boards. Or even if they’ve served before, they might never have received training in fundraising, board governance, conflict management, or the nuances of hiring and managing an Executive Director. Look for an executive coach who specializes in nonprofit management and mediation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2024

Doing so means transforming our governing institutions, laws, regulations, and customs in a more fundamental way than tinkering around the edges with policy and programs. When everyday people, institutions, and government act in service, out of love for the particular needs of particular people, the benefits flow outward.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Guest Blog by Jon Osterburg of Jitasa In recent years, “sustainability” has become a buzzword for many fields and practices, and nonprofit finances are no exception. Financial sustainability means that your nonprofit has both the foundation and momentum to fund your operations year-round while working toward future expansion.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 29, 2024

In this series thus far, our colleagues have explored what this future requires of each of us , and what it could begin to look like for governments. But what about the nonprofit sector? As a nonprofit sector, the first crucial step toward accelerating our progress toward this future is aiming for it.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 10, 2017

Also on the chopping block are big donations to nonprofits. According to Engage for Good , an industry group that helps companies and causes engage consumers and employees around social issues, large checkout fundraisers like Kmart's raise hundreds of millions of dollars for nonprofits. "We 2016 America’s Charity Checkout Champions.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Image credit: cottonbro studio on pexels.com Nonprofits faced significant workforce shortages last year, continuing a years-long trend that has left the nonprofit sector in a “crisis” that is hurting the individuals and communities they serve. When nonprofits cannot hire enough employees to provide vital services, the public suffers.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 31, 2016

Recently, we explored why it’s important to create a reporter-friendly online newsroom on your organization’s website to help ensure that you’re putting your best foot forward to journalists who might be interested in covering your nonprofit. And yet, many nonprofits haven’t taken that step.

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Momentum Nonprofit Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

mid-south nonprofit conference announces keynote speaker Xavier Ramey, one of the most respected voices in the DEI space, will deliver the keynote address for the 2023 Mid-South Nonprofit Conference. We are also happy to announce that the Nonprofit Catalyst Awards returns and will be held in-person for the first time!

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 15, 2024

Ethics and Nonprofits by Deborah L. Packel Unethical behavior remains a persistent problem in nonprofits and for-profits alike. The Hollow Prize for Leaders of Color by Chanda Causer What looks like racial progress at many nonprofits can set up leaders of color to fail. Rhode and Amanda K. Shepard, Jr.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 22, 2021

How Exemplary Governance Can Keep Nonprofits Operational. While nonprofits can’t control donor behavior, they can optimize their appeal by demonstrating competence, value, and transparency at every level. For nonprofits looking to maximize their outreach potential, exemplary governance is the answer.

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