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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. Know your prospective funder in depth! Your Voice Matters!

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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. A number of other nonprofits have been focused on reducing homelessness.

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

The same goes for skills related to group decision-making, managing internal conflict, or holding one another accountable—the most basic democratic practices. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint. Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses. And they have compensated for the shortcomings of the public services and systems that fail to support people returning from prison. On any given day, thousands of women leave homes across America and enter prison voluntarily.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

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 are clear that the maternal and infant health crises in this country are not only problems of disparate outcomes but also of inequitable options.

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How to make sure the experience you deliver to donors makes their giving feel worthwhile

iMarketSmart

Charity managers’ perspective. For charity managers, the answer is easy. Let the managers get on with the job. For charity managers, this can be frustrating. It’s a reality that charity managers often miss. 1] Many small nonprofit managers dream of the million-dollar donation. The auction is public.

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[VIDEO] Exploring Cryptocurrency: Introducing New Giving Methods to Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

New giving methods for your nonprofit. And something we’re really known for here, but if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinars, Bloomerang is also a provider of donor management software. Sorry, and understand how your nonprofit can accept crypto in these safe, simple, insecure environments.