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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. Those volunteers generated labor valued at $167.2 Thats the equivalent of 2.5 million people who earned $873.1

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Bringing Community Centric Fundraising to Life

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Are we willing to update and transform our purpose, vision, mission and values to align with what we hear from our mission stakeholders? What are your core values and guiding principles? Do your organization’s values support and amplify the development practice you seek to undertake? Donor Engagement. Advocacy + Storytelling.

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Unlikely Advocates: Worker Co-ops, Grassroots Organizing, and Public Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Up to this point, legislation for most worker co-ops was not a priority; federal policy wasn’t even a pipe dream. Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Why Prioritize Public Policy and Advocacy? 6 Engaging in public policy advocacy is not without its dangers. Until it was.

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What’s Essential? Author, CEO, Founder on What Leaders Need To Do Now

Fundraising Leadership

There is a skills scarcity, says Smith, whose more than three-decade career including leader Global Talent & Organization consulting at Accenture, after her role as Managing Principle of Deloitte Consulting, and developer of the Deloitte University Centers for Inclusion and Community Impact.

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership. More broadly, conference speakers asked hard questions about how co-ops can live up to their values and principles—to build scale and advance core cooperative goals of self-help and economic empowerment.

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

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

I work with our public policy team to discuss any PR initiatives they should be aware of. They tell me about any important events happening on Capitol Hill and whether there are opportunities to promote our public policy priorities. We also work closely together on planning potential speaking opportunities.

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Sharing Meals

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But our value comes from our ability to connect, educate, build capacity, support new programs and projects that fill critical gaps, communicate, advise, and coordinate advocacy for good food policy. Learn new structures Food Policy Councils take different forms. Manifest your values. Clean up afterwards.