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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Their Financial Relationships to Advance Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Consider a food bank discovering that its operating reserves are in banks that finance industrial agriculture, the very system contributing to food insecurity and displacing small community farms. How can nonprofits and movement groups convert community desires into meaningful financial action?

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by Darla Hueske on Unsplash Travel across the United States today, and you’ll find in many small towns a towering grain elevator or a similar agricultural edifice looming over the rusty train tracks. Often, these structures bear the faded letters “CO-OP” painted on the side.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Should Fundraiser Salaries Correlate With How Much Revenue They’ll Generate?

Bloomerang

Todays question comes from a nonprofit leader who wants metrics and advice on how to justify and calculate fundraiser salaries: Dear Charity Clairity, I am looking for some updated industry standards for fundraising metrics around staff positions. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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Why ‘big bets’ matter more than ever: Supporting nonprofits with flexible, long-term, ‘durable’ capital 

Candid

These conversations often center on concerns that the growing cohort of big bet funders, including Lever for Change, are unwittingly encouraging mission creep and unsustainable growth among nonprofits that might be better off with smaller budgets and ambitions. This is not the time for timid philanthropy.

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From Impact Investing to “Impact-First” Investing—What Is the Field Learning?

NonProfit Quarterly

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.

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Report: Native Communities Are a High-Impact, Often Overlooked, Opportunity for Funders

NonProfit PRO

Innovative Solutions: From regenerative agriculture to constitutional reform, Native-led innovation is producing scalable models with global relevance. Source: The Bridgespan Group The preceding press release was provided by a company unaffiliated with NonProfit PRO. Continue to your page in 15 seconds or skip this ad. rail-container).hide();

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Nithya Ramanathan & Jim Fruchterman Recent milestones in generative AI have sent nonprofits, social enterprises, and funders alike scrambling to understand how these innovations can be harnessed for global good. Right now, even the data that does exist is too siloed.