NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 14, 2025

Meanwhile, embracing the public domain offers various benefits to the nonprofit sector and aligns with values of transparency and accessibilityembracing the public domain will help cultivate the nonprofit ethos of sharing and assistance, not exclusion and profit.

Culture

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 this does not explain why AVOs exist.

Civil Society

The Volunteer Hub

JULY 15, 2022

Strategically matching volunteers with assignments that allow them to excel can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization achieve its mission. Effectively utilizing your volunteer workforce can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization reach its mission.

Recruitment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 13, 2024

Naming gifts provide donors with reputational and market value , what legal scholar William Drennan refers to as “ publicity rights ,” and beneficiary organizations and their constituents with financial and mission-driven value.

Ethics

iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Focusing on short-term financial numbers rather than customer need and value creation. But they aren’t helpful as a short-term metric to guide behavior. Metrics can help, but only a little. When metrics reflect a top-down distrust of fundraisers, they don’t help.[16] They’re about creating long-term value.

Fundraising

iMarketSmart

JUNE 19, 2023

Only friendship reciprocity can help. 6] A donor can be seen to sacrificially protect his people or values. Emits positive externalities”] Understand the donor’s values and preferences? Good at reading your mind”] Value the donor personally? Share the donor’s goals and values? Simple reciprocity no longer works.

Altruism and Helping