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Activism Public and Nonprofit Management Public Policy 
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 8, 2025
This happens daily when local governments park public funds in banks. Public funds amounting to billions of dollars are turned into private profits for services using your assets. The Peoples Money for the Peoples Needs What difference could a public bank make? It turns out, quite a lot. It turns out, quite a lot.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 6, 2025
Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office.
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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?
Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving
MNA Association
JANUARY 22, 2024
Position Title: Public Policy Director Reports to: Executive Director Approved by: Executive Director Date: January 22, 2024 Job Description Position Overview The Public Policy Director plays a pivotal role in advocating for the interests of nonprofits across Montana.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 12, 2025
In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takeson the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. First, many nonprofit staff members serve as volunteer board members at other nonprofits.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 15, 2025
billion) in assets under management and a 30-year track record, isnt wrong per se. That is the central conclusion of a new report released last December by Boston Impact Initiative , a nonprofit place-based investor in the Boston area and a promoter of the field nationwide. Each fund is unique.
NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
It encompasses co-op, community land trust (CLT), mutual , and public housing, and can include a host of new and existing publicly supported models. As such, it involves dealing with the tensions between homeowners and tenants , the influence of money in politics and housing, and the public resistance to higher taxes and fees.
Nonprofit Marketing Guide
MARCH 25, 2019
Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! She is also on the Action Civics Advisory Committee for Sacramento County and an active volunteer at her daughter’s elementary school. I often check in with any active partners during this time. Don’t see the form?
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 4, 2024
The SABSA cooperative team of 13 includes nurse practitioners, social psychology internists, a visiting psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist, infectious disease specialists, external general practitioners, and a public health specialist. The work of SABSA demonstrates the capacity of nurse practitioners to manage patients with these conditions.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 2, 2025
Co-produced by the Charity Reform Initiative of the Institute for Policy Studies and NPQ, this series examines how to facilitate giving while ensuring donor funds reach operating nonprofits in an efficient and effective manner. NPT reported in The 2024 DAF Report that in 2023 donors added new contributions of $59.43 billion remained.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
First and foremost, food systems leadership offers opportunities for new relationships, connecting groups as diverse as farmers, emergency food providers, food waste management companies, and environmental justice advocates. To create change in such a system requires systems leadership. About 20 percent are seated within government.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 3, 2023
The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference + Catalyst Awards will offer a keynote address + 12 breakout sessions The Mid-South Nonprofit Conference returns for its 5th year and aims to address barriers, solutions, and best practices within the nonprofit sector.
NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
To achieve this requires a deeper understanding of the current housing crisis and how nonprofits can, with policy support, implement effective solutions. A Nonprofit Solution Before the surge in private equity interest in the single-family housing market, nonprofits were the quiet pistons in the engine of affordable homeownership.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 30, 2019
By Paul Lamb , Principal at Man On A Mission Consulting , has over 25 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology, and public policy. But what exactly is blockchain it and how is it relevant for nonprofits? Relevant Use Cases for Nonprofits. Blockchain Simplified.
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NonProfit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
When applying for benefits, families consistently come across unnecessary roadblocks—assumptions that people in poverty don’t know how to manage their own time and money or how to care for their families. There have been gains at the state level , but getting enough support to move federal policy across the finish line remains a challenge.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 10, 2024
Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart? Officially, it is now public policy in Puerto Rico to move to 100 percent renewable power by 2050 (with intermediary goals of 40 percent renewable power by 2025—that is, a year from now—and 60 percent by 2040).
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MNA Association
JUNE 12, 2023
But the dust has settled on most issues – and below you will find a recap of how the session played out relative to MNA’s policy agenda. TLDR; Many anti-nonprofit proposals this session stemmed from negative perceptions of nonprofits. Perception 1: “The tax-exempt status of nonprofits is unfair.”
Bloomerang
JULY 6, 2023
Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Despite the many benefits that strategic planning can bring, 49 percent of nonprofits lack a strategic plan. Nonprofit strategic planning FAQs What is strategic planning for nonprofits?
Bloomerang
MAY 4, 2023
Consider the American real-estate agent who recently tried to change my mind about the neighborhood I preferred just because he had an active listing somewhere else! Honestly, this apartment would be a perfect fit for you—it’s a great area, a lovely building, and close to public transport.” “But And maybe that’s not so bad.
NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 31, 2024
Image: “No Soul to Sell” by Yvonne Coleman Burney/ www.artbyycolemanburney.com Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99
Ken Goldstein
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
In these contentious political times, those of us in the social services field may feel the need to be more vocal about policies that effect our clients and our missions, while simultaneously facing pressure to "not rock the boat" or be controversial. Please feel free to borrow and adapt this policy for use in your organization.
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MNA Association
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Mission and Values Montana Nonprofit Association provides leadership for Montana’s nonprofit sector and partners with Montana’s charitable nonprofits to promote a sustainable, networked, and influential sector. MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission.
Blue Avocado
JANUARY 23, 2024
Advisory committees let your nonprofit work with others who want to see you succeed. As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Provide your advisory committee with clearly defined projects and activities.
Stanford Social Innovation Review
MARCH 7, 2024
Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. The majority of these students are women and the first in their families to access higher education.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 28, 2023
Not long ago, the idea of having several congressional champions of cooperatives, spanning the political spectrum, actively pushing employee ownership legislation, would have felt out of reach for our grassroots movement. A few years later, the world has changed.
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Anedot
MAY 25, 2022
Brenna Schlagenhauf Manager Marketing & Communications 707.890.8876 bschlagenhauf@cvnl.org. Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership (CVNL) is pleased to welcome Tom L. He is an active member and contributor of the. Linda Jacobs CEO 415.479.5710 x300 ljacobs@cvnl.org. CVNL Announces New Executive Officer.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 20, 2023
Is your Nonprofit organization ready? In 2020, Momentum Nonprofit Partners’ State of the Mid-South Nonprofit Sector report revealed a frightening statistic: 51% of nonprofit executive directors planned to leave their position within five years. So your nonprofit founder is retiring, eh? Change is inevitable.
Nonprofit Marketing Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Then they gave me another account, which was public broadcasting. This was the first time public broadcasting had hired an advertising agency to build audience. He then founded his own public-relations firm with Jack Porter in Washington, D.C. Nonprofits are by contrast product-driven, not market-driven.
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
To that end, a report from the nonprofit Transform Finance , Alternative Ownership Enterprises: An Introduction for Mission-Oriented Investors , authored by Andrea Armeni, Curt Lyon, and Julie Menter, seeks to advance the conversation. —transform the economy to advance social justice? But a lot of people are trying to do better.
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iMarketSmart
JULY 12, 2022
One study with 10,000 public TV station members found, “in three independent comparisons, increasing the entire vector of suggested amounts by 20%–40% reduces the probability of giving by approximately 15%.”[11]. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 25 (1), 24-38. [4] Behavioural Public Policy , 1-22. [9]
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
MARCH 20, 2023
Is your Nonprofit organization ready? In 2020, Momentum Nonprofit Partners’ State of the Mid-South Nonprofit Sector report revealed a frightening statistic: 51% of nonprofit executive directors planned to leave their position within five years. So your nonprofit founder is retiring, eh? Change is inevitable.
NonProfit Quarterly
JUNE 10, 2025
In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. But did you know that 69 percent of nonprofits—nearly seven in 10—have budgets of less than $50,000?
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NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 8, 2023
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.
NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 15, 2025
Peter Waggonner, public policy manager at New Orleanss Coalition for Sustainable Flood Insurance, told the radio program Marketplace that the higher premiums are simply unaffordable for some households. About 92 percent of those properties were not covered by an active NFIP policy as of May 1, 2023.
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Anedot
JANUARY 16, 2025
Under the direction of the Senior Manager, the Family Care Specialist is responsible for enhancing direct assistance and professional intervention to Alzheimers families and to foster cooperative relationships with the local community health and social service professionals.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Innovators, company founders, and other tech enthusiasts have long tried to sell the public on the idea that AI will create a path to a brighter future. An ecosystem of scientist- and scholar-led nonprofit organizations has emerged to fight bias in AI systems.
NonProfit Quarterly
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Tax Codes and Fossil Fuel Companies Monique Harden, director of law and public policy and community engagement program manager for the DSCEJ, says tax codes are another reason behind the sudden push for these sites in Louisiana and elsewhere. For every ton of carbon dioxide they put in the ground, they get $85.
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NonProfit Quarterly
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
This spring, they applied their training during their first public event since the shooting—a farm blessing—collaborating with local organizations on security measures. Co-chair Stephen Smith notes that they had to build a security program from scratch but used this as an opportunity to engage and activate less-involved members.
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?
Anedot
JANUARY 16, 2025
Under the direction of the Senior Manager, the Family Care Specialist is responsible for enhancing direct assistance and professional intervention to Alzheimers families and to foster cooperative relationships with the local community health and social service professionals.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2024
Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? The public has access to millions of acres of land that we, the conservation community, “own”: we own it in the structure that requires “ownership” for access.
Momentum Nonprofit Partners
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Monitor Legislation that Impacts Your Nonprofit and the Communities you serve Nonprofits must be legislative watchdogs for three key reasons: Impact awareness: New laws affect funding, operations, and beneficiary eligibility. Nonprofits bring unique perspectives to lawmakers. Nonprofits bring unique perspectives to lawmakers.
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Care2
MAY 15, 2009
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NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 22, 2025
In these turbulent times, many leaders of the nations growing network of community development financial institutions (CDFIs)which now collectively manage $468 billion in assets, a 615 percent increase over the past decadehave high hopes. The hub model seeks to manage a community development finance ecosystem, which involves more than CDFIs.
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NonProfit Quarterly
MAY 8, 2025
It aims to advance grassroots anti-racist solutions for systemic change by impacting public policy and creating a new narrative of inclusion and racial equity for Afro-Latino communities. REBIA emerged out of this institutional commitment to racial equity. A panel moderated by Tanya Kater Hernndez , Archibald R.
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