The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

By Olga Moshinsky Woltman “The growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts.” – Carol Dweck It is a truth universally acknowledged that employees who are motivated to continuously learn and grow will be the ones to take on new challenges, innovate, and problem-solve.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 24, 2025

1 AI promises to help scientists leverage massive datasets and brain simulations to test new diagnoses and treatments at scalewithout the need for risky or costly human participation. Yale Universitys latest estimates also propose that the countrys failing mental health systems cost the United States $282 billion every year.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog aims to examine these challenges and offer all nonprofits leaders methods to increase diversity and BIPOC participation in their organizations. BIPOC communities are disproportionately impacted by social inequality, with higher rates of poverty and unemployment.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 27, 2024

The nonprofit sector is dynamic, shaped by technological advancements, ever-evolving trends, and shifts in marketing and public relations strategies. Yet, when you allocate resources effectively, you empower your team members to enhance their skills by participating in nonprofit professional development.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In that time, ESG integration has been enshrined in thousands of pension fund and asset manager ESG policies, while regulations such as the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) now require the practice of financial market participants. Revisit ESG and responsible investment policies and beliefs. But by how much?

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

And, of course, there are always contingencies with public money. In response to the protests and adverse national publicity, Louisville put into place a civilian review board. Until 2019, most engaged volunteers were White and motivated by concerns with food justice. The grocery store has over 600 member-owners; we need more.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Civil society creates a balance between sectors, providing a means for private companies to create social impact, and to improve civilian access to essential needs usually covered by the public sector, like education and health care. BPP provided children and youth with these essential courses and other valuable enrichment programs.

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Care2

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Participants will learn the most successful fundraising strategies including: * Optimize your donation page! Create compelling, holiday-themed fundraising campaigns that motivate web visitors to make a donation on your website right now. Easy fixes you can make to your donation page, so that donors complete the donation process.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

By Phil Buchanan , Alyse d’Amico & Leaha Wynn Organizational performance depends on thoughtful policies and practices with respect to employees and culture. We publicize our salaries in job listings, of course. That may seem obvious, but we have all had our experiences with less-than-stellar situations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re super involved with Cal State University. My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Participation is the path to learning. And you’ve done great sessions for us in the past.

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The universal hero story, called the monomyth, includes specific steps. It promotes personal and social norms supporting a heroic response. 2] It might be external, public, and commercial. In fundraising, story works to motivate the donor. Princeton University Press. Princeton University Press. Story works.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 20, 2022

These establish motivation from the main character’s original identity. Without this, even a catastrophic threat won’t motivate action. To motivate dramatic action, the problem must be disruptive. This can happen with natural disasters or social and political events.[14] Otherwise, it won’t motivate action.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For example, death reminders make people more protective of their social group – and more resistant to outside groups.[5] 5] Group opinions and social “norms” become more powerful.[6] 6] People become more interested in social prestige,[7] fame,[8] a positive life story,[9] personal heroism,[10] or putting their name on something.[11]

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

Universal steps In all these formats, the steps are similar. The universal steps for a compelling donor experience are: Socratic fundraising guides the donor through these steps.[1] At universities, these might be professors. The idea is this: Suppose we ask a person to do some pro-social act. That’s no surprise.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instead, there is a growing understanding that the gap is a result of a pattern of race-based policies , fueled and sustained by anti-Black narratives, that have systematically demolished the wealth and humanity of Black people while reinforcing inequities across generations. The existence of the $11.2 As Ibram X.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

But use the chat to connect with one another and just, you know, really engage in and be social while we’re here. Sarah is in a semi-public place, because she’s at a hotel for a conference. So I saw social media. They’re motivated by a cause more than your institution. So just about our goals.

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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. Fortunately, existing policy tools can address this.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

7 Legislators and regulators often allocate public dollars for clean energy technologies through partial incentives, rebates, or tax incentives. The result is that public funding will largely benefit wealthier households. 8 This system of publicly regulated monopoly utilities is still with us today.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

This article profiles three organizations from which we hail—the Center for Biological Diversity, Marbleseed (formerly the Midwest Organic Sustainable Education Service), and Wellspring Cooperative—that have grown to focus on addressing the many social, political, economic, and environmental ills that are a direct outcome of capitalism.

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. Both aim to socialize the risks of operating a business while limiting the profitable rewards among a select few. 7 But it’s not just California where workers are making gains.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JULY 23, 2020

Policy and structural change are powerful, but take longer. People are motivated by goals. MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS (CREDIBILITY) Has your organization significantly increased its media savvy and coverage ? For nearly a decade, there wasn’t a clear and identifiable policy in Washington, D.C. Strut a little.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 3, 2025

million Americans sustain a TBI annually, underscoring the magnitude of this public health issue. Additionally, the often invisible nature of brain injury results in a lack of awareness and understanding in society, which leads to increased stigma, unemployment, and social isolation. In the United States alone, 2.85

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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? We think it can. We think it can.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 13, 2025

Credit: Good Faces on Unsplash Eight years ago, at the dawn of President Donald Trumps first administration, airports were flooded by public demonstrations protesting an executive order banning travel from a number of majority Muslim countries. This time, as Trumps second administration begins, an explicit travel ban is missing.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 13, 2022

One measure of that crisis is public opinion: In a national Quinnipiac University poll in August, 67 percent of adults surveyed said that US democracy was “in danger of collapse.” All of this combines to undermine voter confidence and almost guarantee election-related disputes and lawsuits in 2022.

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