Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Deep and Sincere Caring About the Nonprofit’s Mission The most important “quality” in a board member would be a real and heartfelt caring about the mission/goal of the nonprofit they will be involved with.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash Millions of people in the United States need work that fits around uncertain day-to-day fluctuations, particularly workers who care for children, elders, or others needing caregiving assistance. For one, directly or indirectly, the government is usually the biggest employer of flexible labor in any area.

Nonprofit governance and management

Bloomerang

MAY 12, 2025

Picture a board retreat that begins with members helping pack care kits with clients in recovery, or reading alongside children in an early learning center. Another used LEGO Serious Play to explore board governance structures. A creative team exercise may be better for governance brainstorming.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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. In order to build a complex machine, we first need to invest in the nuts and bolts.

Social Enterprise

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. Alice Rossignol, Nonprofit Consultant Avoid AI Shortcuts and Put Yourself in the Donor’s Shoes Some suggest grant writing can be done by AI. Know your prospective funder in depth!

Sociology

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 25, 2025

Credit: Morgan Housel on Unsplash The funding landscape for nonprofits has undergone a seismic shift. Todays model for funding nonprofits and social enterprises is fundamentally broken. This means providing funding with the purpose of investing in the capacity of nonprofits to invest in their own enterprises.

Social Enterprise

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Blue Avocado exists to help nonprofits succeed , and our community of nonprofit experts, leaders, and trailblazers continues to share their wisdom, strengthening us all. Make sure you check out all the real-world advice that nonprofit leaders have contributed this year. Why not ripe?

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Autocratic governments, nihilistic oligarchs, escalating climate impacts, dynamic pandemics, menacing technologies, rampant misinformationall of these forces and more conspire to leave Americans and people around the world feeling less safe, more uncertain, and more frightened about the future.

Nonprofit governance and management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Three years into this effort, more than 50 schools have joined the movement, all aligned around a commitment to living the values of active citizenship, social justice, and good governance. The integration of these values has led to transformative changes in many nafda schools.

Education

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

When carefully structured and governed, spend-down strategies can provide targeted financial support to causes that need it most. However, the total dollars granted will be reduced, meaning risk management will take priority during the distribution process. This combination reduces the original value of the portfolio.

Nonprofit governance and management

Get Fully Funded

JULY 17, 2025

Volunteer relationship management begins at initial recruitment and extends even beyond the end of their very last shift. When volunteers sign up with your nonprofit, ask them up front how they prefer you get in touch with them. This might be via email, text, or your volunteer management app. Alerting them to opportunities.

Non-Profits

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Nonprofit managers are scrambling to get clarity on how to proceed regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new “click to cancel” provisions requiring businesses to make it easier for consumers to cancel enrollment in recurring billing, such as memberships. None would speak on the record but only for background when contacted.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The AI Mirror by DALL-E 3/OpenAI.com/DALLE Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? Well, those models have failed spectacularlyand routinelyin many different countries.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In August 2024, the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship, docked at the port of Freetown for a 10-month field service to provide surgical operations and educational training by invitation of the government of Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, for example, the nonprofit is currently serving a majority-Muslim population.

Medical

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Beneficiary-Centric And Policy Frameworks In developing AI policies, CSOs managers must implement a human-centric mindset and prioritize the interests of beneficiaries. By actively involving marginalized communities, CSO managers ensure that AI initiatives promote equity and social justice.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

This order is a potential 5-alarm fire for nonprofits and the people and communities they serve. Federal grants make up about a third of nonprofit funding through direct grants, state pass-throughs, and other mechanisms for everything from scientific research to education to arts and culture to critical services for children and families.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 4, 2025

One involves the unfilled legal, moral, and economic obligations established by hundreds of treaties with the US government. And a third are limits on Native representation in the US government itself. One critical finding is that many non-Native people support Native language and cultural preservation.

Public and Social Policy

Anedot

JUNE 9, 2025

The Center is governed by an active 18-member Board of Directors, served by a staff of 140, and supported by 1,400+ volunteers. Primary responsibilities include day-to-day oversight and responsibility for planning, implementing, and managing all financial-related activities including accounting, payroll, finance, and forecasting.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Darmstadt, a city of more than 168,000, is striving to balance the influx of newcomers while also managing the social and economic implications of diversifying populations. From Kyiv to Darmstadt Yulia Ihnatieva fled Ukraine with her dog, Bella, and her two children a month after Russia launched an invasion of her country.

Nonprofit governance and management

Candid

JULY 30, 2025

When the funding freeze hit, we needed to reassess budgets, manage our relationships and responsibilities with panicked stakeholders, reassure staff, and develop contingency plans—all at the same time. Since choosing co-leadership, we’ve taken sabbaticals, had children, and taken valuable time to recharge.

Leadership

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? are exploring ways to help individuals manage and monetize personal data. 18 Platforms like Nebula Genomics and Hu-manity.co

Race and Ethnicity

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 20, 2025

Trump has also declared , It will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female. Many trans people are even learning how to manage HRT independently. Major nonprofits are going to have to come to terms with the fact that Democrats are now also fair game for criticism.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash Since Donald Trumps inauguration, his administration has escalated efforts against marginalized communities and the nonprofits that serve them. While a federal judge blocked the order and the OMB later withdrew its memo, the disruption has already destabilized nonprofit operations nationwide.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 24, 2025

Thats not accounting for the up to 18 million additional malaria cases, 200,000 polio-related disabilities, and over one million deaths of children from severe malnutrition each year. This means that, more than ever, the community of global nonprofit and non-governmental organizations will have to fill the gap left by these massive cuts.

Disaster Relief

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 14, 2025

In March, NPQ reported on President Donald Trumps executive order to create an ideological test that would determine whether public service workers employed at nonprofits are eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, based on an organizations scope of work. The signatories on this letter are not alone.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

So, if you were the owner or a manager of the home, you could say, No PPE, no inspection. They were small, mostly nonprofit, sometimes they were run by religious organizationsBaptist, Catholic, Jewish. “If you were the owner or a manager of the [nursing] home, you could say, ‘No PPE, no inspection.’

Medical

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 17, 2025

Image credit: Dall-E by OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? 7 The lack of robust data systems to track and manage the allocation and utilization of funds across healthcare centers led to inefficiencies and poor accountability.

Health

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 11, 2025

The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this. The bizarre incident was one of hundreds of similar scenes of confusion, fear, and uncertainty across the nonprofit world after the attempted federal funding freeze. The nonprofit world must prepare for seismic events like this, as more are sure to come.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Image credit: Downside Up by Rene Lapris Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s fall 2024 issue, Supporting the Youth Climate Justice Movement. We are your own children. We stood in the middle of an aluminum bauxite mining pit managed by an American mining company, and I could not hear the birds.

Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2025

Theyre all nonprofits. To say that many nonprofits would cease to exist without [federal] funding is putting it mildly. Recent executive orders by the Trump administration are touching off fear and uncertainty among nonprofits in Providence and other cities across the country. And theyre under attack.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

All told, over 28 million Latines rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare. All told, over 28 million Latines rely on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their healthcare. Though often more costly, private health insurance plans remain another route.

Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 16, 2025

Students at Risk Until the 1970s, when Congress enacted what is now known as IDEA—the program that guarantees every student with a disability the right to a free, appropriate public education—many children with disabilities didn’t attend school. The federal government currently covers about 10 percent of the total cost of special education.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 15, 2025

As of this writing, at least 27 people from Camp Mystic , an all-girls religious camp on the banks of the river, have died, most of them children. How is this impacting the future of summer camps, including nonprofits which historically have offered camp opportunities to children from urban areas? Many more are still missing.

Children

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

“Braver New World” by DALL-E/OpenAI Editors note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine s winter 2024 issue, Health Justice in the Digital Age: Can We Harness AI for Good? This continuity of care is critical in managing chronic diseases and improving long-term health outcomes.10

Health

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 5, 2025

5 Ways to Get Parents Involved in School Fundraisers Instability in government funding leads to budget shortfalls for public schools, resulting in fewer extracurricular opportunities, outdated educational materials, and teachers providing supplies out of pocket. However, many parents dread the fundraising season at their children’s schools.

Fundraising

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

She’s one of millions of Americans , particularly women, who face the very real possibility of being booted off the health insurance that serves low-income people and 30 million children. Lesbian women by comparison tend to have a narrower pay gap than women overall, particularly if they don’t have children.

Insurance

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 28, 2025

The petitioner, a nonprofit Apache and Native American advocacy organization based in San Carlos, AZ, sought to persuade the court to overturn a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding a 2014 federal land transfer of more than 2,000 acres of the Tonto National Forest in Southeast Arizona to Resolution Copper. United States.

Public and Social Policy