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Making a Difference: Ian Adair, ACNP, CEO of the Seattle Police Foundation

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

What really attracted me to the role was the chance to help build trust between law enforcement and the community. Not just fundraising or programming, but the full spectrum of what it takes to run a successful nonprofit organization. The overall depth of work the Foundation supports deeply resonated with me, he said.

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Driving Without a Safety Net: How Nonprofits Are Helping People Recover from Car Accidents

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

While laws and penalties exist to encourage insurance coverage, they often fail to address the root causesfinancial hardship, lack of awareness, and systemic barriers. Fortunately, nonprofit organizations have stepped in to help uninsured accident victims recover and rebuild their lives.

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Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits promote economic opportunity, invest in education, foster healthy communities, support scientific research, and protect the rights of vulnerable people. We cannot walk away from our commitments to constitutionally supported core values of fair inclusion and justice or terminate our lawful support for communities who need us most.

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IRS Weakens Johnson Amendment—Nonprofits Push Back

NonProfit Quarterly

But the implications may go far beyond that, say nonprofit sector leaders, who warn that the blurring of the longstanding line separating nonprofits from politics could erode decades of public trust in charitable organizations, allow even more “dark money” to flow into politics via nonprofits, and potentially reshape American politics.

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In Defense of Philanthropic Freedom

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The philanthropic sector spent weeks scrambling to assess rumors that a barrage of executive orders would do the same to nonprofits who ran afoul of what those in power deem an appropriate “ public purpose.” million charitable organizations contributing well over $1 trillion in goods and services every year.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Every couple of decades, a new era ushers in a new set of ideas, principles and practices that affect how the nonprofit sector functions. entered the Progressive Era.

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The Top 10 Free Fundraising Ideas

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Especially during difficult economic times, charities and nonprofit organizations should consider fundraising strategies that require little or no cash outlay. The revenues generated by free fundraising ideas can be directly used for the work of the organization and require no upfront expenditure of already limited funds.