Candid

APRIL 9, 2025

The Communications Networks 2025 Pulse Polls | Survey #1 offers a snapshot of how nonprofits and foundations are adjusting their communications strategies under the new administration. Nonprofits (40%) were twice as likely to do so than private foundations (20%). Fear of retribution was one of the primary things we saw.

Communication

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

(Photo From Deposit Photos) Leaders at nonprofit organizations struggle to adopt technology in meaningful ways, and this can be due to many factors. But research ([link] tells us the training, configuration, and resources necessary to ensure products can be used in a nonprofit environment also serve as persistent hurdles in this arena.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nonprofits are under threat from an increasingly hostile political environment, argue the authors of Sounding the Alarm: Nonprofits on the Frontlines of a Polarized Political Climate , a new report from Building Movement Project (BMP), released just before the 2024 election. This climate of polarization is not just a momentary crisis.

Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

SSIR is a nonprofit media organization that is entirely funded from subscriptions, events, webinars, and donations. One nonprofit is working to change that. We hope they leave you with a feeling of hope as the year endsand serve as inspiration for the collective work of social change thats before us in 2025. *

Social Entrepreneurship

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the nonprofit sector, co-leadership practices are emerging with feminist identifying and small development organizations leading the charge out of a desire to shift power and create more diverse and inclusive spaces for leadership.

Leadership

Candid

APRIL 1, 2025

Following Hurricane Maria, CDP directed resources to local Puerto Rican nonprofits to ensure recovery efforts were informed by lived experience and local expertise. Our long-term investment in Houston nonprofits strengthened their ability to lead localized disaster recovery efforts from Hurricane Harvey through ongoing severe weather events.

Philanthropy

Candid

MAY 27, 2025

This financial commitmentunprecedented in our foundations historycomes as the nonprofit sector faces ever-growing and unprecedented challenges. We keep hearing from scholars, community organizers, neighborhood leaders, and families that civil society as we know it is at stake.

Foundations

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 28, 2025

Nonprofits are facing significant, arguably unprecedented, challenges and its crucial that donors, whatever their ideologies or particular programmatic goals or priorities, pay attention. Lets start with the drop in rates of giving to nonprofits. We will be taking the pulse of nonprofit leaders on this topic again this year.)

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 17, 2025

Beckman For many in the nonprofit sector, the dizzying pace of rollbacks and new policies in the United States has been nothing short of stunning. The lack of support for shared tools is exacerbated and related to another challenge: concentrating funding in relatively few nonprofits. By David S.

Environmental

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 8, 2025

I’ve examined the unexpected and varied scale of volunteerism , how volunteers can be leaders , and the large role played in the nonprofit sector by all-volunteer organizations. Yet, nonprofit volunteers are continually either overlooked or treated as an afterthought. Create a branded jacket for long-term volunteers.

Volunteerism

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

But every day, Ava and her nonprofit do what too many political “leaders” promise but don’t deliver: meet the needs of the communities they serve. She got to work, as nonprofit leaders do. Purpose-driven nonprofits expand the “We” of “We the People” when those in power seek to exclude people from it. Let’s call her Ava.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 6, 2025

Nonprofits canand ought toengage in a wide range of civic and election-related activities. Since 1973, I have started or led 14 nonprofit enterprises in the arts, community development, and civic engagement sectors. After all, 501c3 nonprofits cannot endorse candidates for public office. You could say that this is by design.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JULY 29, 2025

Arts & Culture Cities Civic Engagement Economic Development Education Energy Environment Food Health Human Rights Security Social Services Water & Sanitation Sectors Government, Nonprofit, Business, etc. Business Foundations Government Nonprofits & NGOs Social Enterprise Solutions Advocacy, Funding, Leadership, etc.

Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on iStock The democratization of social care realigns the roles of state and civil society within a larger framework of social and political transformation. Interestingly, in 2018 Pandora decided to forego all contracting with public entities.

Public and Social Policy

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. Fact-checking is not enough.

Associations

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 7, 2025

Credit: Christian Ladewig on Unsplash Nonprofits that receive government contracts and grants have gotten used to waiting months or even years for payments, often for services already delivered. The resulting budget burden can push nonprofits to take out loans, scale back programs, lay off staff, or even close their doors.

Nonprofit governance and management

The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Technology, regulation, fundraising and the people who power the nonprofit sector were the hottest topics online at The NonProfit Times during 2024. 3URhZuU ** NPTs The Best Nonprofits To Work For bit.ly/3Q1bNOB 3URhZuU ** NPTs The Best Nonprofits To Work For bit.ly/3Q1bNOB

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 27, 2025

For the nonprofit sector in particular, this can be key to resolving issues and creating more inclusive, fair, and effective systems through transparent decision-making.

Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 6, 2025

Donors combined contributions to relieve over $15 billion dollars in medical debt for almost 10 million people living in the United States, facilitated by a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt. Such deep collaboration during adversity can yield effectiveness, solace, and even joy.

Nonprofit governance and management

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 14, 2025

Credit: Photo by CJ Dayrit on Unsplash Nonprofits are used to thinking of themselves as providersof services, of advocacy, of societal change. Yet, nonprofits are creators of media, reports, research, and so on. Nonprofits are creators. Embracing the public domain offers various benefits to the nonprofit sector.

Culture

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MAY 20, 2025

Yet for civil society, this restraint feels indistinguishable from abandonment. If consolidations are necessary and inevitable, fund the hard work of nonprofit mergers and stick with these ventures for at least five years of follow-through investment.

Philanthropy

The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By Shaista Keating and Chloe Mankin The rapid evolution and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) offer both opportunities and challenges to civil society, particularly concerning responsible and ethical usage. Her email is skeating@techsoup.org. Chloe Mankin is program management specialist at TechSoup.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 5, 2025

In South Texas, one nonprofit organization believes that wraparound support services are crucial to a person’s success, and is currently conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to prove this. It is widely acknowledged that first-generation and low-income students face specific barriers to their success.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 2, 2025

But if nonprofits and movement activists are to do more than simply endure this moment, they must create space to collectively dream—and rehearse—different ways of living, working, and resisting. Today, TONYC is one of many nonprofits seeking to develop robust, inclusive democracy in their organizational structures and governance.

Public and Social Policy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The nafda support team connected the school with a local nonprofit organization that focuses on nature preservation, which provided training to 75 students from grades 10 and 11. nafda Schools Connecting to Civil Society Organizations Each nafda school was allocated a small block grant based on its size.

Education

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2025

Based on the FEP’s Quarterly Fundraising Report for the fourth quarter of 2024, which aggregated information from over 12,000 nonprofits and 6.7 million donors, the nonprofit sector saw a 3.5 With a focus on these areas, nonprofits can position themselves for a successful 2025 giving year.”

Retention

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 17, 2025

By John Palfrey Nonprofits are facing a crisis, and many in the charitable sector are fearful. Meanwhile, our freedoms to give, to invest, and to speak freely—freedoms that are foundational to our democratic society—are under assault. Many nonprofits have already gone underwater and more will. billion for science in 2022.”

Collaborations

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Image Credit: photos by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash, Anzhela Bets on Unsplash , Henry Wilkins via VOA, and Steve Sandford via VOA “Civil society is being tested like never before by a series of multiple and accelerating crises” (4). Threats to US Civil Society These threats to civil society include the United States.

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A bill, HR 9495, which would allow a presidentially appointed treasury secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of its status if deemed a “terrorism-supporting” organization, has passed in the US House of Representatives. The measure has raised alarm across the nonprofit sector and US civil society.

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 1, 2025

I’m a public and international affairs professor who researches nonprofits and philanthropy. I conducted a study in 2023 with Chengxin Xu and Huafang Li , two other scholars of nonprofit management, to better understand whether these costs influence how donors pick charities.

Public and Nonprofit Management

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 1, 2025

Dear Readers, On Thursday, a nonprofit media organization compiled and published a list of foundations that may be targeted under President Trump’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion executive order. Compiling a comprehensive list of civil society targets under a hostile government puts lives at stake. Stand strong.

Ethics

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 11, 2025

Not all frameworks within social-­justice and nonprofit communications work to subvert oppressive systems—­indeed, many reinforce them. For stories to truly resonate and catalyze change, they must be woven into the fabric of everyday life and become part of our lived experience.

Public and Social Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 10, 2025

A widely circulated statistic is that there are more than a million nonprofits in the United States—a statistic that sparks both appreciation and dismay. But did you know that 69 percent of nonprofits—nearly seven in 10—have budgets of less than $50,000? That means that most of these nonprofits are all-volunteer organizations (AVOs).

Civil Society

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 8, 2025

My intention was never to start a nonprofit. But, when fundraising happens without much critical discussion alongsidefor example, about why nonprofits exist or what systemic failures have caused the problems in the first placewe send the message that donating money will solve all social ills.

Children

The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Under this structure, influence is redistributed through negotiations, with citizens, supporting civil society organization and officials all serving as empowered stakeholders. A full copy of the report is available here: [link] The post Copenhagen Framework Boosts Citizen Participation in Data appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

Citizen Participation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 24, 2025

We argued that tracking data to determine where to spend more and save more across the humanitarian and nonprofit landscape was urgent and essential—a way to maximize the social impact of every dollar. This is a part two we never thought we’d have to write. In Kampala and Nairobi, IRC coordinates Re: BUiLD , a five-year, 30 million Euro ($33.4

Children