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How to Build a Just and Effective Public Sector Workforce System

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Desola Lanre-Ologun on Unsplash Recent worker polling confirms that even in a low-unemployment economy, workers feel vulnerableand they feel that public policy does not serve them, including the nations system of workforce development. Convene diverse stakeholders with the intent to listen and build.

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Why Are We Ignoring One-Sixth of the Nonprofit Workforce?

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers, Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Meanwhile, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nonprofits employed 12.8 million people who earned $873.1

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Decades of policy changes, however, often under the radar, today inhibit many diverse kinds of association. [We Public policy needs to facilitate large-scale financing for mutualist enterprises—organizations like cooperatives , employee-ownership trusts , and mutual insurance companies. Rather, policy prevents it.

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Get to Know Our Public Policy Intern, Adiza Hamda!

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

Welcome Adiza Hamda, our new Public Policy Intern We’re excited to welcome Adiza Hamda our new public policy intern for Tennessee Nonprofit Network! Adiza is an MPA candidate at University of Memphis. Why are you excited to work for Momentum Nonprofit Partners?

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. I work with our public policy team to discuss any PR initiatives they should be aware of.

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Early in my nonprofit career, I learned that the job of a fundraising professional was securing resources to achieve a financial goal that would serve my employer. Take a look at the advocacy platforms of Independent Sector and The National Council of Nonprofits. Rachel D’Souza-Siebert. Donor Recognition. Louis region.

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How to Coordinate a (Cheap) Successful Photo Shoot for Your Nonprofit Part I

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

At the nonprofit where I work, TransForm (we’re all about bringing better public transportation, walking, and biking options to communities across California), we’ve always scrambled to find enough decent images. However will I choose which ones to use?”.