NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

Nonprofit Management 52

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes. There are communities like hers all over America. We call these factors the Systemic Drivers of Health. Image by the authors.

Health 101

Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 23, 2023

By Dai Ellis & Oliver Sabot Snatched from the jaws of defeat, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will hasten the transition of key markets—for energy, vehicles, cement, and more—toward “greener” technologies. The policy-setting, financial, and regulatory powers of governments will be absolutely critical.

Finance 87

Finance Health Governance Manufacturing 87

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 15, 2023

Earlier this year, I had to chance to talk with Quart about her new book, her description of contemporary US social policy as having created a “dystopian social safety net,” and her thoughts about how to build a US society that is centered on mutual caring and economic justice. EHRP is part of the dystopian social safety net.

Public and Social Policy 92

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Volunteerism Volunteerism 92

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. These policies hold a clear expectation for global corporations to engage in and promote biodiversity conservation and restoration. We stand at a crossroads.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Agriculture Manufacturing Environmental 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 30, 2023

Aruta & Kelly Davis A convergence is happening between the climate and mental health movements, and social impact practitioners need to pay attention. Yet, all individuals in social impact face a similar challenge, whether addressing things like housing, health care, or poverty. By Lian Zeitz , John Jamir Benzon R.

Health 92

Health Public and Social Policy Environmental Culture 92

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Vital Energies. In Ayurveda, one of the world’s oldest healing systems, the word doshas refers to the vital energies that animate life. These energies consist of specific combinations of the five basic elements: space, wind, fire, water, and earth. Vata is the energy of movement, made of wind and space. I’m a hothead.

Energy 114

Energy Culture Leadership Public and Social Policy 114

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The children and grandchildren of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton have long embedded their interests, and, more importantly, their money, among industry groups, policymakers, academics, activists, and NGOs active in the future of food. Now, “it’s hard to even extract their influence from fisheries policy,” Sennott said. There’s more.

Public and Social Policy 121

Public and Social Policy Environmental Public and Nonprofit Management Philanthropy 121

EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Often, the central issue is a specific policy or a cultural phenomenon that the organization seeks to promote or eliminate.

Public and Social Policy 79

Public and Social Policy Education Education Nonprofit governance and management 79

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Georg von Richthofen & Ali Aslan Gümüsay This year, our institute published several studies as part of the research project Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, and Global Digital Transformation (SET) based on activities in seven countries in the Global South. None of the studies were written by ourselves.

Entrepreneurship 71

Entrepreneurship Public and Social Policy Civil Society Collaborations 71

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

1 Boston’s Green New Deal and PowerCorpsBOS Investing in the climate future of youth and young adults is the way Trinh Nguyen, chief of worker empowerment, and Mariama White-Hammond, chief of environment, energy, and open space, saw the way forward to investing in Boston’s Green New Deal.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 90

Nonprofit Administration and Development Environmental Energy Nonprofit governance and management 90

Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

the IRS defines nonprofits as “Organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes.” Starting a nonprofit requires a decent amount of time and energy. Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit?

Public and Social Policy 80

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations 80

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

The imperative for DEI often begins with the business case—the bottom line—because key stakeholders require this to justify the time, money, and energy invested. The Moral/Social Justice Case encourages us to consider the historical factors and barriers that exist in whatever context we operate.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Law Values 141

Fundraising Coach

MAY 25, 2023

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly devoting more time and energy to forms of giving beyond straightforward one-time or pledged cash donations, like non-cash gifts of securities and appreciated assets or more complex planned gifts. We’ll discuss the importance of taking an active approach to facilitate stock donations below.

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Values Nonprofits Activism 52

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 9, 2023

These activities are difficult to make space for in a capitalist context. Chronic illnesses, deep fatigue, hypervigilance, limited emotional bandwidth, and mental health stress—all are well-known phenomena to many who work on social change. In the past year, we’ve each taken sabbaticals of our own.

Health 91

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Medical 91

NonProfit Hub

JULY 3, 2020

When you reinforce your mission and publicly support the policies that impact your cause, it provides an additional platform to discuss your organization with potential supporters. You may ask them to stop something in their policies that is actively harming your mission or to incorporate a new policy that would help.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising Public and Nonprofit Management 90

Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If families reflect deeply in this moment on their philanthropic purpose, pace, power, and practices, and carefully choose their future path in this rapidly changing world, they will not only expand their impact but can fundamentally change the norms of our entire sector and help catalyze broader social transformation. Many already are.

Philanthropy 113

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Collaborations 113

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

Energy 106

Energy Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public Policy 106

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Combined with other data that reveal our rural communities to be sicker and poorer than the state and nation, these facts have by necessity moved the search for solutions from activities and projects to systems and structures. The barriers to change are real and persistent.

Entrepreneurship 113

Entrepreneurship Philanthropy Foundations Public and Social Policy 113

EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

Whether you’re looking to contact lawmakers, gather petition signatures, or mobilize public support using social media, you can measure and increase support for your mission by presenting your audience with a digital form across their preferred channels. Why should nonprofits use digital advocacy forms now?

Public and Social Policy 52

Public and Social Policy Fundraising Fundraising Energy 52

Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 7, 2023

Nonprofit organizations, with their focus on social causes and community welfare, play a crucial role in shaping society. They must be committed to the organization’s mission and be willing to devote the time and energy required to fulfill their duties.

Nonprofit governance and management 52

Nonprofit governance and management Recruitment Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The trauma we carry affects the way we look at the world and ourselves, and therefore plays a role in determining the future course of social systems. If the trauma remains unprocessed and unhealed, the amygdala can send our brains into a heightened or activated state when it detects a similar threat. It’s everywhere.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 24, 2023

I earned my master’s degree in public administration and I coach and train nonprofit executives through my firm, Mind the Gap Consulting. The World Economic Forum just did a highly publicized panel touting the benefits of the Four-Day Workweek. Would it complicate our programs, activities, or mission attainment?

Public and Nonprofit Management 98

Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit governance and management Production Public and Social Policy 98

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Second is to develop some action-oriented strategies to recruit and retain and engage diverse board members in fundraising activity broadly.

Leadership 60

Leadership Fundraising Fundraising Philanthropy 60

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Jess Daggers , Alex Hannant & Jason Jay In the face of complex social and environmental challenges, our best efforts often only address a symptom, rather than root causes, even as unintended consequences create new problems. Investors who think about social change tend to be rooted in a linear, reductionist form of logic.

Finance 111

Finance Public and Social Policy Environmental Food 111

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Policy gains have been significant, especially at the state level. Nonprofit advisors and employee ownership advocates often feel the need to tout and promote each transaction they work on—to gin up interest among funders, policymakers, and the public. New investment funds to support transitions to employee ownership have formed.

Public and Social Policy 101

Public and Social Policy Finance Nonprofit Administration and Development Governance 101

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 16, 2023

And it´s not happenstance who lives in these communities; it’s often the result of structural racism and economic forces like gentrification and displacement that drives those with fewer resources into places with less social and physical infrastructure to support better health.

Health 70

Health Public and Social Policy Energy Collaborations 70

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

The doors to my signature training program, Social Media for Social Good Academy , are open – but for a limited time only! For Nonprofits Who Want to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors, Supporters, and Advocates. Who’s it for? What do you get at the end? What does it really take?

Public and Nonprofit Management 62

Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Management Participation and motivation 62

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

Communication 34

Communication Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Fundraising 34

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The report is just one of many clarion calls to act urgently, not just on climate change but also on climate justice: the process of finding solutions to climate change that also address social inequities due to gender, race, ethnicity, geography, income, and other factors. Why Climate Justice Matters to Business.

Civil Society 74

Civil Society Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Energy 74

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Activism Education 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 17, 2023

Image Credit: Adam Wilson on unsplash.com This is the f ifth article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus.

Public and Social Policy 90

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Environmental 90

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Breath and brotherhood are enormously important to the work of the collective of socially engaged artist-activists that I cofounded several years ago. Others wrongly believe that bisexuals enjoy all the same social privileges and advantages that straight people have. I was suffocating. Creating space to breathe freely.

Race and Ethnicity 124

Race and Ethnicity Public and Social Policy Culture Philanthropy 124

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

When I joined Mothers Out Front as executive director, one of our organizers put this clearly for me: our climate justice work means that we are on the forefront of intersecting social justice movements. It can also look like making sure our PTO policy supports working parents.

Public and Social Policy 94

Public and Social Policy Culture Energy Leadership 94

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2023

While many foundations screen their endowment investments based on environmental, social, and governance factors, only a few optimize their investment strategies for mission impact. Financial guarantees are a powerful tool, yet they are underutilized in the social sector. One confounding challenge is low field awareness.

Community Development 82

Community Development Finance Energy Nonprofit governance and management 82

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.

Philanthropy 137

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Culture Foundations 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 11, 2023

I remember this [ NPQ elevating the voices of social change leaders of color] was a vision of yours. But what I do know is that there was so much energy generated from that writing. It’s as the words are being formed internally and moving through the energy centers. Marcus Walton: I’m proud of the progress you’ve made.

Construction 86

Construction Leadership Philanthropy Culture 86