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A Beginner’s Guide to Winning More Grants for Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

There are five simple steps you can take to prepare your nonprofit for grants: Make sure you’re discoverable. Ask for your board or community’s help. Adopt a decision-making framework. Step 1: Make sure you’re discoverable. Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? .

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A Beginner’s Guide to Winning More Grants for Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

There are five simple steps you can take to prepare your nonprofit for grants: Make sure you’re discoverable. Ask for your board or community’s help. Adopt a decision-making framework. Step 1: Make sure you’re discoverable. Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? .

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

If you are ready to turn your board around and increase their comfort level with fundraising, Sabrina Walker Hernandez will show you how! We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. Keep doing it.

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3 Common Nonprofit Board Myths

NonProfit Hub

Your board is one of your most important assets. Here are 3 common nonprofit board myths. Myth #1 Board Members Can’t be Fired. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there came a second headline: Ted Yoho Resigns from the Board of Bread for the World. A board member fired? The thing is…these rules do not fit every board.

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The Challenge to Power

NonProfit Quarterly

In some instances, the challenge presents as a clarity gap— employees stating that they don’t understand how decisions are made or what their roles are. The Aspen Institute’s definition of the term is instructive here. 1 The structure of labor is one such “dimension of our history.” The critique has been valuable.

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Participatory Grantmaking: What Practitioners Have to Say

NonProfit Quarterly

What we take as “normal” in modern philanthropy is based on the fundamental, and frankly patronizing, assumption that the wealthy are best suited to distribute grants—a notion that turns a blind eye to the fact that this practice gives those who extract (or have even stolen) community wealth the power to choose how to distribute this wealth.

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The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership

NonProfit Quarterly

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership by Anke Dregnet This recent discussion, hosted by Shareabl e , launches a new webinar series, curated by Emily Kawano. The event was co-organized and co-sponsored by Shareable , the Resist & Build’s SE Narrative Circle, the U.S. But we believe two things.